Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher
“Digging in the Dirt” is a podcast and radio show featured on WPKN (wpkn.org) with climate change experts and activists, promoting organic and regenerative farming techniques, showing the way to grow healthier food in a way that respects the planet’s health.
Kevin Gallagher
Show overview
Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 121 episodes. That works out to roughly 80 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 28 min and 55 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 22 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 72 episodes published. Published by Kevin Gallagher.
From the publisher
“Digging in the Dirt” is a podcast and radio show featured on WPKN (wpkn.org) with climate change experts and activists, promoting organic and regenerative farming techniques, showing the way to grow healthier food in a way that respects the planet’s health. In addition to nationally known movers and shakers in this niche, Kevin loves to feature food authors, local farmers and gardeners pushing the envelope by encouraging us to take personal responsibility, as consumers and gardeners, toward the environment on our properties and urban lots. These guests give us methods, ideas and recipes for creating a better environment for people, our children, animals, insects and the plant life of our planet’s ecology — one backyard at a time.
Latest Episodes
View all 121 episodesBill Lucey -Sound Keeper for Save the Sound, Barry Kresch Pres. CT. EV Club, Craig Floyd - RegenAGweekend
Cori Kondas - Protect our pollinators, Doug Tallamy - Home Grown National Park, William Sweet - Lawns to Meadows
Harry Holding - Author "Eat your Garden"
Rob Hopkins - How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveler's Guide to Changing the World.
Harry Holding - Eat your Garden, John St. Elementary school Garden Club, Gloria Frazee - Rewildlongisland.org
John St. Elementary school Garden Club, Rob Hopkins - Transition Network, Natalie Kyriacou - My Green World
Amory Lovins - Rocky Mountain Institute and Craig Repasz - Lights Out CT
Dave Chapman - Real Organic Project and Jacqueline Maisonpierre - Two Meadow Flower farm
David Ansel VP of Save the Sound Center for Water Protection
Save the Sounds Peter Linderoth Director Healthy waters & David Ansel VP of Save the Sound Center for Water Protection
Save the Sounds Peter Linderoth Director Healthy waters
Rob Hopkins - Author Advocate - How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveler's Guide to Changing the World
Real Food CT’s Founder - Sean Fitzpatrick
Rob Hopkins -Author Advocate - Transition Network & Sean Fitzgerald - Real Food CT’s Founder
Dr. Amelia Magistrali the Soil Health Extension Educator at UConn and Joe Magazzi Founder of Green Earth Ag and Turf
Digging in the Dirt Earth Day special
Master Gardener Caty Poole of Valley Community Gardens and 2 Gardeners Vincent Dion and Kevin Gallagher swapping best practices
Ep 106Professor Judith Enck - The Problem with "Plastic How to Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late”
Welcome Judith Enck who is a Professor at Bennington College in Vermont. She is the President of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional Administrator, appointed by President Obama. Professor Enck is author of the new book "The Problem with Plastic: How to Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late”
Ep 104Mary Ellen Lemay - Conservation Director for the Aspetuck Land Trust
Today's guest is Mary Ellen Lemay. She is the "Conservation Director for the Aspetuck Land Trust", providing outreach, education and engagement to encourage people to improve biodiversity on their land by adding native plants and avoiding pesticides. Lemay's recent work includes designing and installing nature-based, climate smart projects in the City of Bridgeport, including the planting of 8 Miyawaki Forests at public schools and Seaside Park, as well as waterside buffers along rivers and coastal properties in the city.Her 25 years of conservation work was recognized as Winner of the Aquarion Connecticut Environmental Champion Award in 2022.
Ep 103Elliot Coleman- The Self-Fed Farm, Barbara Damrosch- A life in the garden & Gloria Frazee of Rewild LI.
My guest today is Eliot Coleman. Eliot is an American farmer, author, agricultural researcher, educator, and proponent of organic farming. In 1989 he wrote the highly influential "The New Organic Grower". A master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.His latest book is "The Self-Fed Farm and Garden", A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method, on Chelsea Green Press. Then I speak with Eliot's wife Barbara Damrosch about her recent book,"A life in the garden". Barbara is a professional in the field of horticulture and a writer. Her book The Garden Primer is a classic manual of horticulture. For 14 years she wrote a weekly column for The Washington Post called A Cook’s Garden.Finally Long Islanders, my regular contributor to DITD Gloria Frazee of RewildLongIsland.org drops in to fill us in on many of the amazing events Rewild has going on this spring.