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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The Old Farmer’s Almanac with Carol Connare | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Carol Connare is the 14th editor of the longest running farming publication in North America, called the Old Farmer’s Almanac. In this full episode of the Beet Podcast, she and Kevin discuss gardening, and what it’s like to work for this important gardening legacy. Learn More: 10 Things You Should Know Before Growing Tomatoes

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Carol Connare is the editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac, an annual publication devoted to growing and knowing. She is the 14th editor in the publication's history and only the second woman to hold the post. She is an avid gardener of flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
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0:00.0

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0:19.2

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0:26.0

Sale offers can't be combined with other current offers.

0:28.0

See in store for T's and C's. This week we are going to be talking to the editor of the oldest

0:47.2

continuous publication in North America. Think about it for a second. See if you

0:52.2

can guess the one that I am referring to.

0:55.0

It's a gardening show, so you might have a clue already. Yes, we are talking to Carol

1:00.2

Canaire, the editor of the Old Farmers Almanac.

1:04.5

It's really cool to have you on Carol.

1:06.7

Thanks for having me.

1:07.4

Great to be here.

1:08.4

So can we just briefly, the Old Farmers Almanac is almost like, it's almost like in the fabric of our society I feel like

1:15.2

no one who doesn't garden probably even knows what it is but they know of it for sure

1:21.2

right and I think the cover is really iconic, the name's iconic.

1:25.4

What would you say it actually is? What is a farmer's almanac?

1:30.8

Oh, that's such a good question. Almanics are really calendars.

1:34.0

I mean that's when we started out

1:36.0

200 and almost 33 years ago that's really what it was about.

1:39.0

I mean there might be another book in the house at the time that was the Bible you know and this was

1:43.8

really about every other day of the week in a way and it really has something for

1:49.2

every day whether it was holidays the, where the moon is,

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