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The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

284-Gardening Sustainably in a Changing Climate

The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

Joe Lamp'l

Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The reality of climate change should spark gardeners to both reduce their carbon footprints and adapt. With earlier springs, warmer summers, droughts and extreme weather events becoming the norm as climate shifts intensify, practicing sustainable gardening is more important than ever. To share how gardeners can have a positive impact on the environment while making their gardens more resilient, my guest this week is soil and plant ecologist Dr. David Wolfe.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

0:08.7

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

0:13.1

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

0:18.5

Joe Lample.

0:19.5

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

0:23.7

Show.

0:24.7

Today we're coming up for air for just a bit from the previous couple of weeks, where

0:29.0

we took a deep dive into the geeky side of soil science.

0:32.2

Today, we're speaking with Dr. David Wolfe.

0:35.0

He's a recently retired professor at Cornell University, and just to be clear, he could easily

0:40.3

handle a third round of geeky soil science conversation, because his background at PhD

0:45.7

is in plant and soil ecology from the University of California Davis, and he's the author

0:51.8

of an internationally best-selling book, Tales from the Underground, a natural history of

0:56.8

subterranean life.

0:58.5

So yes, he can certainly enlighten us on even more details and discoveries below ground

1:03.6

that I know we would all love to hear, and we will, at another time, in the not too

1:07.8

distant future.

1:09.3

But today, we're going to focus our conversation with Dr. Wolfe around a particular chapter

1:14.0

that he contributed to another book, the New American Landscape, leading voices on the

1:18.6

future of sustainable gardening.

1:20.9

And the title to his chapter was gardening sustainably in a changing climate.

1:25.2

That's a topic that has come up a lot lately within my online community of gardeners

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