The Garden Journal

Santa Fe Master Gardener, Alexa Bradford, hosts Wendy Wilson and Tom Dominguez. (Click for more.)Wendy Wilson, immediate past board president of the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners, and Tom Dominguez, director of the Santa Fe County Extension Office.Topics include an update on the SFEMG’s highly anticipated annual plant sale and community outreach events on May 12 and 13.Tom will update listeners on Santa Fe County Extension Office developments and introduce new team member Michelle Stizza, Family Consumer Science Agent – Adult Educational Services.NMSU Extension Service Publications. https://pubs.nmsu.edu/

Join us as we hear from 2 young farmers/growers as they explore the intersectional nature of farming from a social justice lens.

Hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem talk with Reese Baker, permaculturist and owner of The RainCatcher, https://theraincatcherinc.com/ about his inspiring vision of ways to harvest, capture and infiltrate rainwater and urban storm water runoff, following patterns of nature to create lush and abundant biodiversity in a desert city.Additional resourcesEarth Day Celebration April 22 from 9-noon. Reese Baker will demonstrate how to create a rain garden. Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners Campus, 3229 Rodeo Road. Details and registration. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN2gFumsmcdRNtDIio3ev0ZotDGqDHnwN1xploezvVGLuR6g/viewformQuivira Coalition Good Earth Series podcast featuring Reese Baker. https://quiviracoalition.org/reese-baker/

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with Brett Rapkin-Citrenbaum, Slow Food USA’s Farm Bill Community Organizer and Robb Hirsch, Co-founder of NM Healthy Soil about national and local issues related to renewal of the national farm bill.

Giant Veggie Gardener Edition with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady”. Jannine shares tips and techniques for backyard vegetable gardening and a to-do list for April.

Just keep growing!

Host Alexa Bradford talks with Master Gardener Seed Stewards Susie Sonflieth and Donna Wynant about the benefits and joys of seed saving and the Santa Fe Seed Library that reopens March 25 at the Southside Branch of the Santa Fe Public Library. Find out more at Santa Fe Seed Library.This program is the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition of the Garden Journal, a weekly radio program that focuses on gardening and environmental issues in northern New Mexico.Visit SFEMG.org to learn more about the Master Gardener program and to find local gardening events on the online calendar. Have a gardening question?Online Ask a Master Gardener can help! You can also explore our archive of Garden Journal podcasts. More at https://gardenjournalradio.com

Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Sherry Hooper, Executive Director, The Food Depot and Dwayne Trujillo, Development Officer, Kitchen Angels, about their respective organizations roles making a difference providing food to those in need in Northern New Mexico.

Giant Veggie Gardener Edition with Jannine Cabossel, “The Tomato Lady”. Jannine shares tips and techniques for backyard vegetable gardening and a to-do list for April. Jannine blogs at Giant Veggie Gardener.

Host Carrie Core interviews Follow the Drinking Gourd Panel

Ashlee Wolf and Gwen Wion with the Institute for Applied Ecology and the Southwest Seed Partnership join hosts Alexa Bradford and Christine Salem to discuss the program’s efforts to collect and grow out locally sourced native grass and forb seeds for land restoration projects in the Southwest.More information at Institute for Applied Ecology and Southwest Seed Partnership.Support their mission by attending their upcoming fundraiser on March 7. And learn more about volunteer opportunities here.This program is the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener edition of the Garden Journal, a weekly radio program that focuses on gardening and environmental issues in northern New Mexico.Visit SFEMG.org to learn more about the Master Gardener program and to find local gardening events on the online calendar. Have a gardening question? Online Ask a Master Gardener can help! You can also explore our archive of Garden Journal podcasts. More at https://gardenjournalradio.com

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Ellen Lampert, SFSF Board member, about her upcoming Renasan Institute class on food legacy and author Gina Rae La Cerva about her food writing workshop.

Jannine Cabossel, the Tomato Lady, joins hosts Christine Salem and Alexa Bradford the last Saturday of each month to offer tips and advice for the coming month in our vegetable gardens. Jannine blogs a https://giantveggiegardener.com.This episode of The Garden Journal is presented in partnership with Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners.

This month's Soil Stories features Lyla June Johnston Artist, Scholar and Community Organizer. A historical ecologist she will be focusing on the intersection of Indigenous food systems in both pre-Columbian and contemporary times.

On today’s program, we are talking about food sovereignty global corporate food systems with Indra Shekhar Singh, an independent agri-policy analyst from India and who is visiting the US on a lecture tour to raise awareness of the farmers’ revolution in India and global agrarian movements.Indra Shekhar Singh is an independent agri-policy analyst, writer and Host/Creator of the Wire’s agri-talk show Krishi ki Baat/ Farm Talks. He also served as director for policy and outreach for the National Seed Association of India.Apart from contributing to various national and international media organisations, Indra has travelled over hundreds of villages across India working with farmers on regenerative agriculture & seed sovereignty. He has delivered over 200 lectures on agro-ecology, environment and agrarian politics globally. These include invitations by the International Labour Organisation, universities, international seed and farmers’ forums, etc. He has published over 500 articles on environment, agriculture and politics for various media platforms like Civileats, The Wire, Firstpost, etc and often invited for various news debates on agrarian issues.Indra in his early twenties was mentored by Dr Vandana Shiva and worked as the campaign manager and media spokesperson for Navdanya. He continues to save seeds and is also an urban food-gardener.

Hosts Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg interview Pam Roy, Director, of Farm to Table and Coordinator of the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council about food and farming issues facing the 2023 NM legislative session.