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#33 This Land is Our LandPublic Gardens, Publicly Aware Our season finale takes us to the Rose of New England, Norwich, CT - a city famous for its beautiful rose gardens - where Paul Tukey spoke on organic lawn and garden care to benefit the Chelsea Gardens Foundation, one of the first public gardens in America to maintain their grounds organically from day one. On their drawing board is the 80-acre, world-class Chelsea Botanical Gardens. This special 90 minute show features Paul's riveting talk abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#32 Red SuspendersGnome is where the heart is Roger Swain gleefully accepts the moniker, garden gnome, as a term of endearment. Whether the 1980s Boston newspaper columnist who dubbed him such, meant it as a compliment is another story. Known by millions across TV's vast and somewhat fickle gardening world as The Man in the Red Suspenders, Roger hosted the granddaddy of all such shows, The Victory Garden on PBS for 15 years - well before high-def. My, how that technology would h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#31 This Joe is Making a DifferencePolitics aside Let those running for higher office conjure up your average "joes" for political gain, we'll keep the one who visited us this week, thank you. Not that Master Gardener, Joe Lamp'l is wanting for fans. America's favorite male gardening personality is seen coast-to-coast on DIY and PBS television each week where he hosts Fresh From the Garden and GardenSMART respectively. He's authored two books, Over the Fence wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#30 When Organic Goes WrongDo you believe in magic?Neither do we. Not when it comes to remaking your lawns and gardens organically. To succeed you need knowledge. Lush, green grass and beautiful flowers and shrubs need soil rich in natural nutrients. Not chemicals. Most homeowners don't know this, so they keep paying people to spray toxic chemicals that actually kill your soil. Short term you get green grass. Long term nothing grows there - except weeds - and you've put your family and pets at risk for serious h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#15 Perennially YoursGardening for the Rest of UsKerry Mendez has mastered the art of low-maintenance perennial gardening. She and her husband own a quarter-acre homestead in upstate NY that boasts big, beautiful ever-blooming beds of everything you can think of, everywhere. In this episode Kerry takes us through the basics of growing perennials, without all the back-breaking work. Now THAT's for me! As well as writing about it for several of the leading horticulture magazines, Kerry teaches ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#16 Disney's DreamscaperFulfilling Walt's dream...and then someWell before this week's guest became the woman Paul Tukey calls the "grand dame of American Horticulture", Katy Moss Warner was carrying out Walt Disney's environmentally friendly vision for his sprawling Florida playground. For 24 years Katy's genious for creating colorful gardens and managing largely natural landscapes made the 30+ thousand acres of Walt Disney World a tourist's paradise. Her official title was Director ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#17 Can Algae Solve the Energy Crisis?Simple pond scum? Think again.When you think of alternative energy sources, algae does not spring to mind. Unless that mind belongs to Glen Kertz. He has developed a technology that wrings lipids - basically vegetable oil - out of certain types of algae to mass produce bio-fuel. The kind that converts to diesel and other applications, including jet fuel. His patented system is called "Vertigro" and tests have shown the capacity to produce 33-thousand gallons of oil per a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#18 Paul's PotpourriQuick, think of something!When our scheduled guest was AWOL -- unavoidably it turns out -- host Paul Tukey turned Thursday night's regular live show into a jam session of listener Q & A. Anything but impromptu-sounding, Paul handled a steady stream of e-mail puzzlers about everything from red thread and Japanese beetles, to creeping charlie and Kentucky blue grass, with his usual easy-going precision. What, you were expecting a tap dance from the bestsellin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#19 The Magic TreeHe lights up the faces of millionsBeen to Rockefeller Plaza to see The Tree over any of the past 25 Decembers? Were the kiddies overcome with glee when the lights came on? Did it make for one of your most memorable holiday seasons ever? Then you might want to thank Guy Torsilieri. For the last quarter century Guy's family landscaping business, Torsilieri Inc. of New Jersey, has been picking out, setting up and flipping the light switch on the world's most famous Christmas tre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#20 'Safe' Pesticides That Are PoisonPerils of the New PesticidesSide effects range from death and convulsions to headaches and skins rashes. And according to an investigative report, one so new the ink is still wet, we are seeing an "alarming rise" in so-called safe pesticide-related human poisoning. More than 26 percent of all major and moderate incidents involving pesticides reported to the EPA last year were caused by pyrethrin (and it's synthetic cousin, pyrethroid), a naturally-occurring com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#21 Hop in! We're Off to Save the Planet.Peter, Paul & Mary knew something One question that increasingly gets asked is, "how come so many people I know are getting cancer today?" One answer, my friend, is indeed blowin' in the wind. Think those poisons your lawn guy sprays stay in your yard? Wind carries these toxins miles. Rain washes them into our water tables. If you want clear advice and steps you can take now to safeguard your family and pets health, please, we beg you, listen to this week's show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#22 Today Chicago. Tomorrow the WorldThey're neck and neckIt's been exactly 100 years since the Cubs won baseball's World Series. So, here's a question: which do you think will happen first -- we at the SafeLawns organization reaching our goal in the Million Acre Challenge, or Chicago's Northsiders claiming baseball's ultimate prize? We want you to pledge your lawn to organic care. Our goal is to convert one million acres of turf this way by 2010. The Cubs, at this moment, are rampaging through the Nat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#23 Hey Paul, Only 11 States to Go!Live from Madison, Wisconsin! Paul Tukey takes his all-natural, eco-friendly SafeLawns evangelical tour to the dairy capital of Madison, WI. Don't be misled. With a population of nearly 225-thousand, second only to Milwaukee, this is no cow town! This week's show is loaded with great content and new links to many cool people, places and products that will be on everyone's organic radar very soon! Where to start?
Hey governor, want to go organic?Paul has his eye on the grounds surr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#24 Poof! It ain't magicEducation, not hocus pocus, is what will rid our cities and towns of toxic lawn chemicals. And it is people like Marsha Smith who are helping us with the teaching. She phoned in to this week's show from Down East, Maine with a progress report on the work she and a handful of others who comprise Citizens For a Green Camden have been doing. Some 18 months ago, fired up over a poison "warning" sign on town property, she set out to find others just as upset. Today, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#25 They're Yelling in Dallas!Just like "Network" When that mad oracle of the airwaves, Howard Beale implored viewers to throw open their windows and yell, "we are mad as hell and we are not going to take this anymore", he might as well have been preaching to our congregation. In the 1976 movie, Network, Peter Finch's character directed his wrath at politicians, the oil companies and the Russians. Our revolution targets toxic, cosmetic chemical pesticides, the kind millions of uneducated homeown ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#26 Feel That?Maple Leaf'ers Make Believers Another tremor in the anti-chemical pesticide movement shook Canada this week when RONA, the country's largest retailer pulled all synthetic pesticides from its store shelves. Home Depot of Canada was first to stop selling so-called cosmetic pesticides north of the US border. SafeLawns founder, Paul Tukey talks about what's new on the American front, including one county in New York state that is banning toxic pesticides, and a growing push in many other c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#27 Goodbye GrubsPopulation Control Everyone is grousing about those slimy white crawly things devouring their grass roots. Blame the Japanese beetle. Their eggs have become grub worms and they're ravenous in September. Return guest, Todd Harrington tells how living microscopic beneficial nematodes can help you win this war. A listener asks whether milky spores can also work. Another email complains that creeping Charlie (otherwise known as ground ivy) is taking over. The weed likes "stressed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#28 Fall Makeovers and Alaskan Tales King of the Garden Writers Nobody in North America has written a continuous gardening column longer than Jeff Lowenfels. His knowledge of soil biology and plants is so astounding, his advice so helpful, his anecdotes so delicious, you almost want to move to Alaska just to read them each week - of which he has missed not one in 33 years. Paul Tukey figured everyone who doesn't live there is mssing out, so he asked Jeff to pay a return visit to the show. By the way, if you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#29 Coming Around AgainMother Nature Doesn't Use Fertilizer This week's theme is, do what nature does. Nurture your flowers, plants and landscapes with loving, chemical-free care. Mother Nature will do the rest. Guest co-hosts Kerry Mendez and Scott Reil ladle out heaping helpings of organic gardening and lawn care advice. Kerry's specialty is growing beautiful, low-maintanence perennials. She's taught thousands her secrets in classes, and countless others through her newspaper columns, magazine articles and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#14 The Wholistic Heiress and the Organic PioneerLiving (and teaching) her generation's legacy
We welcome two guests this week, each with their own unique contributions to our environment and the organic movement. Author, actress, chef, yoga instructor and wholistic lifestyle expert, Anna Getty is the great granddaughter of oil magnate, J. Paul Getty. Her gift to earth and its inhabitants becomes self-evident when you hear her speak.
"There is a voice missing, and I want to be that voiceâThe goal is bettering your health, bettering ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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