The Garden Journal, broadcast each Saturday from 10:00 to 10:30 am on KSFR 101.1, is a compendium of interviews, advice, and inspiration for home gardeners throughout Santa Fe County.
The Garden Journal, a project of the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, has been on the air every week since October, 2013. The program is produced by four participating organizations in rotation each month, each about how to understand our roles as humans in the natural world and featuring local and global experts:
The first Saturday of each month join Slow Food Santa Fe’s Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg and their guests. The Slow Food Santa Fe, the local chapter of a national and international grassroots organization promoting food that is “good, clean and fair,” focus on perspectives from the local food community.
On the second Saturday of the month in the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition, Alexa Bradford joins in conversation with local gardening experts, environmentalists, seed stewards, and policy-makers. Tune in for high desert gardening tips, news, events, and gardening inspiration.
On the third Saturday join Kaitlin Haase of the Xerces Society on “People, Plants, and Pollinators”. This show gives listeners a glimpse into the importance of pollinators and invertebrates, the native plants they rely on and the people working to create healthy ecosystems in neighborhoods, cities, farms and natural lands. The program informs listeners about educational wildlife gardening and conservation topics with an emphasis on insect pollinators and will feature guests from wildlife biologists to native plant ecologists and more.
And finally, the last Saturday of every month Jannine Cabossel , the Tomato Lady, shares her vegetable gardening expertise and advice for each coming month in the Home Grown New Mexico edition.
Four times a year, Tom Dominguez, Santa Fe County Extension Agent weighs in with gardening advice and updates on the Master Gardeners and other County Extension programs.
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The Garden Journal Broadcasts — Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners
email: gardenjournal@ksfr.org
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Jannine explores the concept of Terroir, a French term used to describe the complete natural environment in which particular wines are produced. She discusses adapting the concept to local vegetable gardening. -
Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Master Gardeners Athena Beshur and Michael Davis, and Santa Fe Municipal Tree Board representative Betsy Garside, to learn about the ongoing survey of Santa Fe’s trees begun in 2016 by the Master Gardener Tree Inventory Project. https://www.sfemg.org/tree-inventory-project https://santafenm.gov/media/files/public_works/Recommended_Trees_for_Santa_Fe_2024.pdf https://www.sfemg.org/newsletter See “Trees for Small Spaces” article by Mike Davis in the November 2025 SFEMG Newsletter.
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Kaitlin Haase interviews Ru Stempien, executive director for the Northern Youth Project, and Emilio Borrego, program director for the Northern Youth Project. Ru and Emilio work with teens and young adults through paid internships to gain work experience in northern New Mexico, providing support to traditional farms, conservation projects, and community arts programs. They are partners with the Xerces Pollinator Habitat Kit Program and established 4 habitat restoration kits on 3 properties.
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Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with The Food Depot's Executive Director Jill Dixon about the current challenges of feeding people in Northern New Mexico and TFD's wonderful programs serving this mission.
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Jannine Cabossel the “Tomato Lady” as she gives us her annual 2025 Vegetable Review, with a summary of the best things she grew this year, and why she loves them.
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On this month's episode of the People, Plants and Pollinators edition of the Garden Journal, Katlin talks with Phoebe Redfield. A conservation ecologist from Pollinator Partnership to talk about the different organisms and their importance to the pollination of plants here in New Mexico.
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On this quarterly edition of the Santa Fe County Extension Office Edition of the Garden Journal, Michelle Stizza sits down with Laura McCann, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist to talk about healthier eating habits and community resources to help us eat healthier during this upcoming holiday season.
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with emeritus Master Gardeners Laurie McGrath and Christine Salem in a series of programs on the miracle of seeds, promoting seed biodiversity, and the power of saving locally adapted seeds for the future of the planet’s ecosystems.For additional reading, see documentary film Seed: The Untold Story; Seed Sovereignty and the Law; Thor Hanson’s The Triumph of Seeds, Basic Books, 2015; Scatterseed Project; Dan Saladino’s Eating to Extinction, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021; Wise, Timothy A., Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food, The New Press, 2019; and Free the Seed! Podcast.
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Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with chefs Kathleen Crook, chef and co-owner of Market Steer Steakhouse Restaurant and Joseph Wrede, chef and owner of Joseph's Culinary Pub. The chefs have been selected to participate in the 2025 James Beard Foundation's Taste America series and will create a dinner at Market Steer November 12th.
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation Jannine Cabossel the “Tomato Lady” as she shares tips for November end of the season activities in the vegetable garden.