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Growing Heirloom Peaches
There are some fantastic heirloom peach cultivars that are not available at your local supermarket....but you can grow them at home! Lawton Pearson of Pearson Farm talks about his family's history of
How to Grow a Fruiting Wall
Commercial growers are increasingly growing sweet cherries and other fruits in an easy to prune, maintain and harvest fruiting wall structure. Matthew Whiting, Extension Specialist from Washington Sta
Turning Your Backyard into a Food Forest
Learn how to transform your backyard into a food forest with Dani Baker, author of The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape.
Espalier Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
Looking to plant a small fruit tree? Learn how to create espalier fruit tree planting with Ron Perry, Ph.D., co-author of Espalier Fruit Trees for Northern Gardens.
Do Plant Hardiness Zones Matter?
In the past, you would consult a plant hardiness zone map if you wanted to know whether a fruit tree or any other plant could survive in your climate. But our climate is quickly changing. Are plant h
Grow Fruit Trees Fast!
How do you encourage young fruit trees to grow faster and produce an earlier harvest? Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com chats with John Cline Ph.D, Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture,
Grafting Fruit Trees
Steph Roth from Silver Creek Nursery in Ontario talks about how she grafts fruit trees. We will cover collecting fruiting wood, rootstock choices, bench grafting and more.
Making Perry Cider
Cider apples are a hot commodity these days. But what about perry pears? In this episode, Barry Masterson, of Kertel Reiter Cider talks about perry and tells us how to make it and what pear varieties
Irrigation Systems for Fruit Trees
There is a right way and a wrong way to water your fruit trees and other plants. And how you irrigate will affect the health of your plants and the quality of your harvest. Learn the science behind fr
Heirloom Fruit Recipes for The Holiday
Learn to use your home grown heirloom fruits in recipes from centuries past. Show guests include orchardist Darren Turpin of Orchardnotes.com, historic cook Paul Couchman of Regencycook.co.uk and culi