Green File

Shane Jones is a professor or horticulture, food, and farming at Durham College and the new The Barrett Centre of Innovation in Sustainable Urban Agriculture. Shane is helping to oversee the Barrett Centre's mission: * Enhance the existing urban farm at the Durham College Whitby campus.* Become a source for information, support and coaching for traditionally underserved and marginalized communities when it comes to urban agriculture initiatives including food security. * Create a comprehensive and connected array of educational programs and materials in urban agriculture will be to meet growing employment needs.* Create dozens of new opportunities in the years ahead for students to gain experience working on urban farms and in roles supporting the operations.* Become home to a team of highly respected experts working to establish it as an internationally recognized hub of knowledge around sustainable urban agriculture.

Returning guest Lorraine Johnson returns to talk with Ben about her new book A Garden for the Rusty Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators, co-authored with Sheila Colla. We talk about species at risk, and the unique relationship between pollinators we depend on and the plants they depend on in turn. https://lorrainejohnson.ca/https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771623230

Annabel is a lifelong educator, publisher, and environmentalist who is a Founding Chair of ClearWater Farm- the flagship project for Ontario Water Centre and a home for place based learning, educational farming, water conservation, regenerative agriculture, and economic development. Learn more by listening to our conversation and at https://clearwaterfarm.ca/

This week Ben and Mark are celebrating 2022 - Year of the Garden! https://livethegardenlife.gardenscanada.ca/

This is a must listen for anybody dealing with difficult soils: Mark's journey establishing a new garden in the "claybelt" of Markham, ON

Norm is a cum laude graduate of Ohio State University, and a graduate of the University of Windsor. He has spent his years since graduating teaching, growing cut flowers, and most recently, growing organic greenhouse vegetables. He is the Director of Research and Development for Erieview Acres and likes to pontificate about the benefits of organics – which is why he’s here today!

This week we are chatting with Nicole Rycroft, Founder and Executive Director of environmental not-for-profit Canopy. In addition to being a member of the UBS Global Visionaries Program, Nicole is an Ashoka Fellow, the recipient of a Canadian Environment Award Gold Medal, winner of the 2020 Climate Breakthrough Award, and a recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of CanadaWe talk about the importance of old growth forests, the threats facing them, and an update on the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history

In our final week of summer sabbatical we are revisiting another favourite from the archive, Steven and Emma Biggs. Steven is an expert in growing exotic fruits in our northern climate, as author of the Biggs-on-Figs blog where he writes about growing figs among other things, and the book – Grow Lemons Where You Think You Can’t. At 14, Emma is author of her own “Kid-to-Kid” guide for gardening, Gardening with Emma. Together, Steven and Emma host their own podcast called The Food-Garden Life Show. Originally aired July 15, 2020

This week we are chatting with Jennifer Reynolds, incoming Editor in Chief at Harrowsmith Magazine. Jennifer’s career has spanned various marketing and communications roles across non-profit and home & garden, including Evergreen Canada and Gardening Life Magazine. She also happened to start her career many years ago at Weall & Cullen garden centers

This week we are chatting with Jonathan Bruderlein of Ottawa Farm Fresh. Jonathan and this partner Jolianne are organic farmers 10 minutes from downtown Ottawa. Jonathan and Jolianne started farming in Quebec’s eastern township with four draft horses before deciding to take a 3 year sabbatical to travel North America by van touring various organic farms, before re-settling in Gloucester at the east end of Ottawa to establish Ottawa Farm Fresh. Today they run an array of farm events, offer a CSA as well as operate a farm store

This week we are chatting with life-long friend of the pod Emily Corbett of Northshore Apothecary + Goods - ethically wildcrafted natural products for the body, mind and cabin. Emily is an enthusiastic student of nature with a Masters of Environmental Studies from Queen’s University in Kingston, and teacher of nature with an education degree underway and many years of outdoor education under her belt. Northshore’s line of scented products are harvested and processed entirely by Emily in keeping with the sustainable ethos of wildcrafting, which Emily is here to tell us more about! You can find Northshore online at https://northshoreapothecary.ca/ or on Instagram at @northshore_apothecary

This week we are chatting with Nancy Rowland, CEO of the Royal Botanical Garden in Burlington, Ontario. Nancy is a career professional in managing public attractions and has entered the role with a mandate to move forward with implementation of its 25-year Master Plan. The plan aims to position RBG as Canada’s leading environmental centre with world-class gardens, natural areas, programs, services and facilities that powerfully influence positive change in the way people interact with the planet

Backyard Urban Farm Company. "BUFCO", is a full-service design-build-maintain – and consult company for all things backyard, organic veggie started by former film producers and life partners Arlene Hazzan-Green and Marc Green of Toronto.