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Exploring the enduring power of that 70s radical ecological upstart, Earth Day. And Farming on Mars!
13 Apr, 2021 | 0:29:54 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
In this episode, a visit with an environmental non-profit that has weathered political, social, and ecological storms and shifts. Earth Day has been around since the Guess Who’s American Woman topped the Billboard charts and the hole in the ozone layer wasn’t even on our radar screen. In the distant 70s. Earth Day Canada was born in the 90s and...
13 Apr, 2021 | 0:29:54 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
In this episode, a visit with an environmental non-profit that has weathered political, social, and ecological storms and shifts. Earth Day has been around since the Guess Who’s American Woman topped the Billboard charts and the hole in the ozone layer wasn’t even on our radar screen. In the distant 70s. Earth Day Canada was born in the 90s and...
A mode of transportation that couldn’t be more homegrown in this country if it tried - the canoe.
29 Mar, 2021 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner |
Today's program is about two subjects that are naturally Canadian -- plants which have grown here for centuries if not longer. And the canoe -- an important kind of transportation throughout the history of this land. First up, Mark Cullen, our perennial, and annuals, gardening experts fills us in on how native plants benefit gardens, birds, bees and well, the...
29 Mar, 2021 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner |
Today's program is about two subjects that are naturally Canadian -- plants which have grown here for centuries if not longer. And the canoe -- an important kind of transportation throughout the history of this land. First up, Mark Cullen, our perennial, and annuals, gardening experts fills us in on how native plants benefit gardens, birds, bees and well, the...
All about chickens .. and then we learn that hops aren't just for beer.15 Mar, 2021 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode is about hens and hops. First up, we head out to Port Hope and learn raising urban chickens, not just for the eggs, but for the companionship. Next, Ben Cullen, the youngest generation of the Cullen garden dynasty, tells us about hops as an ornamental. They’re not just for IPAs any more.
An unlikely Japanese garden in Lethbridge and award winning wines under pyramids in BC.
22 Feb, 2021 | 0:30:01 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
On this week's show, a remarkable Japanese garden in Lethbridge, Alberta, the tenacity of plants, and what that that teach us and a B.C. vegan, organic winery that ages its award-winning vintages in a pyramid. Wayne MacPhail talks to guests about what plants, especially native plants, can teach us about thriving in adversity, an unlikely Japanese garden in Lethbridge. And...
22 Feb, 2021 | 0:30:01 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
On this week's show, a remarkable Japanese garden in Lethbridge, Alberta, the tenacity of plants, and what that that teach us and a B.C. vegan, organic winery that ages its award-winning vintages in a pyramid. Wayne MacPhail talks to guests about what plants, especially native plants, can teach us about thriving in adversity, an unlikely Japanese garden in Lethbridge. And...
A health website that is the voice of the patient and the mighty morphin’ power of the 4H Club.02 Feb, 2021 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode is about the 5 Hs. First, there’s the H in healthing.com, a website that amplifies the voices of those living with diseases and disorders and who are looking for options for healthy lifestyles. The next of the five are four H’s are in the 4-H club of Canada …. So, five H's, six, if you count Harrowsmith, which we...
An arctic journey where we explore the life and words of a remarkable Canadian. 19 Jan, 2021 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
On this week's show, Inuit children’s author and storyteller Michael Kusugak on the eternal power of the tale. Also, how farmer’s are helping Food Banks Canada end hunger. This episode takes us on an arctic journey where we explore the life and words of a remarkable Canadian, children’s author and storyteller Michael Kusugak. And, the story of how thousands of farmers across...
Feeling cold air? Some tips on winterizing the draftiest of houses. And, feeding feather friends.04 Jan, 2021 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode features a return visit from Harrowsmith’s resident handyman from Manitoulin Island, Steve Maxwell. This time out Steve offers some good, and timely advice about how to keep your house warm in the winter. Next up, another timely topic, bird seed. Host Wayne MacPhail visits with Barry Bogel, who runs a bulk seed business on equipment his grandfather would...
It's never too early to plan for gardening season. And, what to do with Christmas leftovers22 Dec, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
During this year's strange holiday season, people won't be getting together but there still will be some traditional holiday dinners on the cook. And because there won't be as many people to eat dinner, there will be more leftovers. Harrowsmith food writer Signe Langford has some new ideas about making good use of holiday leftovers. And, in the depths of...
Exploring that most misunderstood of fibres, hemp. And the truth about chestnuts at Christmas.07 Dec, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
In this episode Wayne MacPhail gets the lowdown on one of the most misunderstood and maligned crops in North America, hemp. It’s a delicious breakfast topping, it’s a construction material, it’s great for clothing and plastics! Stop, you’re all right. He speaks with hempbassador Marie Eisenmann about the fibre of the future. While hemp has, for centuries, been a valued...
Dr. Suzuki talks about his life, his regrets and what he's learned from decades of activism.23 Nov, 2020 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
A while back host Wayne MacPhail got to meet one of his heroes, Dr. David Suzuki. He had just published "Letters to my Grandchildren", a heartfelt retrospective of his life, learnings and legacy. Wayne got to sit down with him in the David Suzuki Foundation offices to chat about that life. And .. since the holidays are coming, a nod...
A visit to a B.C. greenhouse where citrus fruits thrive and one woman?s ingenuity has made eclectic 09 Nov, 2020 | 0:29:58 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode of Harrowsmith Radio is about hydroponics, subtropical fruit in Canada and the stars in the winter sky. We begin with a journey to Salt Spring Island off the coast of British Columbia. There we find Jane Squier, who’s nurturing a citrus grove under glass (well, poly, really). She’s just wrapped up her career as a purveyor of butter...
How a stamp entrepreneur launched a Canadian fish firm that delivers to your door. 26 Oct, 2020 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode is about how a Moroccan stamp entrepreneur became a fish magnate who is shipping fresh tuna right to your door. Plus, buffalo milk from a lone ranger near Stratford Ontario, as we learn about why buffalo milk makes 3 per cent from cows look like skim. Seafood Crate -- When Phil Behaim’s father, Marc first came to Canada...
What impact is climate change having on the wildfires of B.C.? And soup from compost and stone.12 Oct, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
A study published in Earth’s Future last year is clear: the fires that ravaged B.C. in 2017 were made terrifyingly worse by human-induced climate change. We made weather worse, whipping up winds, calling down lighting and causing the fires to burn up to 11 times more land than normal. And, things might get worse still. To understand what’s at stake,...
Father and son team Mark and Ben Cullen tell us how to attract birds to your garden.
28 Sep, 2020 | 0:29:37 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
Mark and Ben Cullen, a father and son dynamic duo of gardening expertise, have been guiding home-based horticulture fans for years, decades and now, generations. This time out they team up to guide you to getting the best birds in your backyard this winter. Along the way, they shatter a couple of myths, crack jokes and diss cracked corn. And...
28 Sep, 2020 | 0:29:37 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
Mark and Ben Cullen, a father and son dynamic duo of gardening expertise, have been guiding home-based horticulture fans for years, decades and now, generations. This time out they team up to guide you to getting the best birds in your backyard this winter. Along the way, they shatter a couple of myths, crack jokes and diss cracked corn. And...
A handshake that launched a Canadian duck farm, and, a tour of Prince Edward County.15 Sep, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
1.) Patti Thompson is one of four sisters who run King Cole Ducks near Stouffville, Ontario. That farm has been running for almost 70 years over three generations. It was a bit of an oddball at first, ducks just weren’t as popular as beef and chicken in the fifties, but a few decades later, a wave of Chinese immigration washed...
This episode is about mushrooms from the edge of Canada and beer from the heart of the nation.31 Aug, 2020 | 0:30:01 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
First up, Stephanie Lipp co-founder of Gillis Naturals tells us about how she and her partner Leo have launched a mushroom farm in Bonavista Newfoundland. Yes, devoted listeners, that’s the same place the Newfoundland Salt Company calls home. Next, we learn about how Harrowsmith inspired craft brewing and the dozens of reasons Ottawa is the beer capital of Canada. Stephanie...
An elegy to the rhythms of nature from a farmer and cello player finely tuned to that beat. 17 Aug, 2020 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
This episode takes us down on the farms - first to a sheep farm near Perth where we learn about the capricious rhythms of Mother Nature from a farmer and cello instructor. Next, to Dr. Dolittle of a farm – Caberneigh Farms – jubilant with animals and abuzz with newly hived bees lost in their own dances and rhythms. All...
A visit with Dan Needles, the creator of Walt Wingfield and the Wingfield mediaverse.27 Jul, 2020 | 0:30:03 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
The "Letter from Wingfield Farm" series of stage plays have been a staple of summer repertory theatre companies for many decades. The comedies focus on the life of stockbroker-turned-farmer Walt Wingfield. The plays consist of a series of letters containing philosophical musings about the nature of life in a small rural community, theories of why animals sometimes misbehave, and puzzling...
The changing role of women in the ag business. In some ways plus ca change, in some ways, new rows h14 Jul, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner | Harrowsmith Radio - Make, Grow, Sustain, Share
In this episode we talk about the changing role of women in agriculture and the future of the largest agricultural fair in the world. Wayne MacPhail speaks with Iris Meck, the force behind the Advancing Women in Agriculture conference. Since 2014 The Advancing Women in Agriculture conference has brought together women from across Canada to share, learn and grow and...
We explore a global cornucopia of unusual vegetables you can grow yourself.
29 Jun, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner |
This episode of Harrowsmith Radio is about extraordinary vegetables, wild weather and the water it brings with it. First up, we head to the east coast, the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be exact. There we meet Niki Jabbour. Niki’s a bestselling gardening writer and author of Veggie Garden Remix. She's discovered hundreds of vegetables beyond the rank and...
29 Jun, 2020 | 0:30:04 |
EN | Victoria Fenner |
This episode of Harrowsmith Radio is about extraordinary vegetables, wild weather and the water it brings with it. First up, we head to the east coast, the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be exact. There we meet Niki Jabbour. Niki’s a bestselling gardening writer and author of Veggie Garden Remix. She's discovered hundreds of vegetables beyond the rank and...
