Plant Out Loud
Season Finale: Cooking with Abundance From the Garden
It's the season of abundance in the garden, when the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and more are all starting to come in. I'm taking a pause on the podcast for this season so I can relish it, but I hope you'll join me over @plant.outloud on Instagram. In this episode, I share why I've started using organic fertilizer regularly, how my tomato plants planted out at separate times are all the same size, and why I'm not going to plant carrots in the spring next year. I also share ideas for usi...
Healing Skin with Plant-Based Ingredients
Jolena Stewart started Love Energy Nature with one goal in mind: to provide high-quality, bath and body products made without synthetic ingredients. Jolena has struggled with eczema most of her life. When her daughter also suffered with eczema, she started learning more about how to make skincare with ingredients that don’t irritate their skin. Soon, she decided to sell these products to others. She now also offers coaching for families with eczema, with educational workshops and a new member...
Urban Foraging: "Weeds" for Wellness
Liz Neves is an herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dream guide, meditation instructor, and mama living and teaching in Brooklyn. She’s the founder of Gathering Ground and author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). We have a wide-ranging conversation and talk about how to teach children about plants, three easy-to-identify wild plants, how to celebrate summer solstice, why non-native plants can be just ...
How to Shop at the Farmers’ Market and More
Peter Hoffman is the former chef and owner of Savoy and Back Forty Restaurants in New York City and author of the new book, What’s Good: A Memoir in 14 Ingredients. He is a longtime supporter of the farm-to-table movement and served on the boards of the New York City Greenmarket, the Chefs Collaborative, and is a Slow Food NYC Snailblazer award recipient. On most market days, he can be found on his bicycle at the Union Square Greenmarket. In this episode, Peter and I discuss how plant live...
Lessons From The Garden
In this episode, I go solo and share some of the life lessons I’ve learned from the garden. #1 It’s not too late! I’ve always felt late to everything, including gardening. It’s not too late this year or in your life to start gardening! Listen to learn more. #2. Perfect is as impossible in the garden as in life. By nature, plants are not perfect and neither are we. But plants want to grow and so do we. We need to embrace the imperfection of the garden and help nature do its thing. Here is...
There's a Tea For That (Plus What It Means to Decolonize Wellness)
A Conversation with Sunyatta Amen Plants aren’t always just pretty things to look at on Instagram. Behind them are real human stories, including stories of oppression. To help me tackle some of the tough topics, I spoke to Sunyatta Amen, a fifth-generation master herbalist & natural lifestyle expert. She grew up steeped in ethnobotany behind the counter of the ‘Black Pyramid’ herb shops & vegan juice bars founded by her father in Harlem. She has had a lifelong drive to create beaut...
All About Growing Tomatoes
Resh Gala is the owner and founder of Hundred Tomatoes. Her intensive planting methods have garnered her a loyal social media following and she was named a 2020 Gardener of the Year by Burpee Home Gardens. She also creates YouTube videos for Kellogg Garden Organics. Resh only started gardening in 2016, when she killed two tomato plants on her patio. That failure led her to learn everything she could about gardening. In 2017, she built raised beds and filled them with top soil...that turned o...
Growing Asian Vegetables
A conversation with Wendy Kiang-Spray Wendy Kiang-Spray is a writer and speaker whose articles about gardening and food have appeared in national and local print publications. Her first book, The Chinese Kitchen Garden, is about growing and cooking Chinese vegetables. She gardens in Rockville, Maryland where she also works for the public school system there. I cite The Chinese Kitchen Garden frequently in the book I wrote with The Chef’s Garden and as a newer gardener, I really enjoyed rea...
How to Learn More About Plant Medicine
A Conversation with Linda Shanahan of Barefoot Botanicals Linda Shanahan is an herbalist, an herb farmer, and a nurse. Since 2008 she has operated Barefoot Botanicals, a certified organic herb farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her partner Eric VanderHyde. It is here that she feels all of her worlds come together—she grows plants, makes herbal medicines, and teaches classes in medicine making and community health. Linda believes that the most powerful medicine is building connectio...
What Can We Learn From Plants?
A conversation with Beronda Montgomery Beronda Montgomery is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University. She is the author of the new book, Lessons from Plants—a book I just love because it weaves together plant science with greater life lessons. In this episode, we talk about how a plant’s scent is not really for us, why new plant leaves are worth celebrating, and how we might better learn to care for people by cari...
It's All About the Soil
With Farmer Lee Jones Farmer Lee Jones is the co-owner of The Chef’s Garden, a family-owned vegetable farm in Ohio near the shores of Lake Erie. As a farm that used to grow almost exclusively for restaurants, The Chef’s Garden is a longtime innovator and sort of a Willy Wonka Factory for vegetables. Lucky for us, they now ship nationwide through their sister site, Farmer Jones Farm. (See below) For the past few years, I’ve had the honor and privilege to work with Farmer Lee on his book call...
Vegetable Cooking: Using the Whole Plant and More
With Chef Jamie Simpson of the Culinary Vegetable Institute How do you make the best vegetable stock you’ve ever tried? Is vegan demiglace even possible? What the heck do you do with all of those carrot tops? Chef Jamie Simpson answers all these questions and more. Jamie is the Executive Chef at the Culinary Vegetable Institute, the educational, research, and event facility at The Chef’s Garden. Jamie and I worked closely together for three+ years on the book The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Gu...
Plant Out Loud Trailer
Would you say you're in a relationship with plants? Do you find yourself sneaking more and more plants into your home or spending more time in your garden? Are you curious about all the ways plants can heal you--as food, medicine, and even just as beings? Are you a fan of a good plant metaphor? This is the podcast for you! Welcome to Plant Out Loud, a podcast to listen to when you’re weeding and watering. My name is Kristin Donnelly, and I’m a writer and cookbook author, and I ...
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