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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Join Michelle Stizza, Santa Fe County Extension Consumer Science Agent and Tom Dominguez, Santa Fe County Extension Agricultural Agent to hear about what's happening this fall at the Extension Service. -
Join Kaitlin Haase for a conversation with Emily Rees, Southwest Restoration Ecologist with the Institute for Applied Ecology. Emily leads the River for Pollinators project which is adding important nectar, pollen, and host plants along the Rio Grande and its tributaries to improve habitat connectivity along these natural corridors.
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Join Host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Kathy Mathai of the Santa Fe Master Gardeners to hear about the significant renovations of the organization's Herb Demo garden, as well as a deep dive into all things lavender.
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Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with Santa Fe Farmers' Market CEO Debbie Burns about the market - its history, features, and what makes it an award-winning market - in celebration of National Farmers' Market Week Aug 3rd-9th.
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Join Host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Jannine Cabossel “The Tomato Lady” as she shares tips and information about weather, harvesting, tomatoes, and preparing your vegetable garden for fall planting.
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This month on the People, Plants, & Pollinators edition of the Garden Journal, Katlin interviews Christine Chavez, City of Santa Fe Water Conservation Office Manager, speaks with Kaitlin about outdoor water conservation practices. Christine discusses the City's initiatives to reduce water use and how gardening and drought-tolerant landscaping are a crucial part of water and pollinator conservation.
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Join host Alexa Bradford in conversation with Harry and Amanda Werksman of the Santa Fe Garden Club. Harry and Amanda discuss the Garden Club’s partnership with the City of Santa Fe that led to the restoration of historic Amelia White Park, and its acceptance into the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Gardens.
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Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with Pam Roy, Farm to Table New Mexico and New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council, about current and proposed federal cuts in the food and farming world.
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Host Alexa Bradford talks with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady,” about what’s going on in the vegetable garden in the coming month of August.
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This month on the People, Plants, and Pollinators edition of the garden Journal, Kaitlin interviews Sharon Selvaggio, a Pesticide Program Specialist with the Xerces Society, who leads the pollinator-safe nursery plant program. Sharon shares tips on how to find plants for your garden that are free of pesticides harmful to pollinators and how growers can manage pests without excessive pesticide use.