The Revolutionary's Garden

This underrated root vegetable is loaded with flavor, sugar, and is a robust addition to any garden.  In this episode we cover common varieties from the All American to the Russian Krull. We go over the complicated question of interplanting parsnip, and dealing with the pests and diseases that want to feast on them.  Aside from just leaving them in the ground overwinter, we go over how to can, dehydrate, and pulp this tasty root! If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Our patrons get early access to epsiodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden Team.  https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden

In this continuation of our series on herbs, we talk about the champion of italian cuisine, and how it can be even more versatile. From seed selection, to planting, to pruning and harvesting. We of course hit the highlights on how to use basil, like pesto and in tomato sauce. But we also cover less known uses for basil like in Thai dishes, as a tea, or in salads.  If you like our show, please leave a rating and review, or best of all support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden    

In this episode we cover the basics for dehydrating fruit, veggies, and herbs! Covering the impossibly long history of dehydration, how it affects nutrition and more. We cover the various ways to dehydrate, from the most rudimentary to scifi devices! And of course we go over some basic dehydration steps, and how to incorporate dehydrated foods into your diet!  If you like our show, please leave a rating and review, or best of all support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden    

In this episode we explore the lack of north American spices in our food, why that is and how we can start to correct it. Then on to the good stuff, identify, planting, and growing the Northern Spicebush. This incredible shrub can produce four different spice and foods! From its Chai like leaves, Black pepper like seeds, Allspice like berries, and Cinnamon like bark!   If you enjoy our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! We are really trying to increase the amount and consistency of content this year, and your support really helps! https://patreon.com/RevGarden  

The closest we have ever come to a current events episode. In this latest installment of our food preservation series, we cover the ins and outs of pasteurization. From its hsitory, its current political dimensions, and of course, how to do it!  Please listen to the full epsiode befroe jumping to any conclusions.  If you enjoy our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! We are really trying to increase the amount and consistency of content this year, and your support really helps! https://patreon.com/RevGarden  

As we start off this new year loaded with all kinds of craziness, we wanted to share some of the big updates of the previous year of craziness! From finding ancient beech trees, to baby goats, to being harassed by a scummy code enforcement officer. it has been a year of ups and downs, but at least it makes for some entertaining content! If you enjoy our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! We are really trying to increase the amount and consistency of content this year, and your support really helps! https://patreon.com/RevGarden If you are interested in helping with or joining us on the communal farm, please feel free to send an Email to Therevgarden@Gmail.com Thank you all so much for your support, and enjoy!        

In this full episode comeback, we will be talking about possibly the easiest to start with herb, mint! We dive into some of the basics for growing and cultivating this wildly versatile herb. We also cover some of the many things you can do mint, from jellies, to teas, to salad greens.   If you like our show, please tell your friends about us, leave a review, and if you can support us on patreon. We offer our patrons early access to epsiodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team. https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden The Revolutionary's Garden is written and produced on occupied Abanaki land. A portion of the shows income are saved to be payed in the form of rent to the Wabanaki Alliance. Today we would like to recommned the podcast, Proles Pod! reborn from the ashes of proles of the roundtable, Proles Pod brings back some of the original shots, plus some terrific new ones to bring you a podcast about history, politics, and culture, without the liberalism. They are a very educational and very funny group of people who bring some absolutely critical content. https://prolespod.libsyn.com/

Given recent political news, We wanted to offer a quick update on the podcast! New content coming soon comrades! Love and solidarity 

We're alive! We will have more episodes coming to the feed soon, but in the meantime enjoy this yogurt mini epsiode! While we have previously released an epsiode on dairy preservation, in which we talk about yogurt making. But since then we have made quite alot of yogurt, and felt a small update to the yogurt making process would be helpful.     

Welcome to the sequel to our garden 101 basics series! in this follow up guide, we will cover some of the slightly more involved garden tools, like building of hedges, using livestock in the garden, or employing alternative planting methods.  In this first of our Garden 102 series, we will cover some of the more common alterntive planting styles, instead of just plantinf directly into the soil. We cover lots of styles both ancient and modern, fom terracing and mound gardens, to raised beds, hugelkulture, and Ruth Stout muclh gardening. We talk about the basics of each method, as well as go over some of their pros and cons! 

With Spring in full swing, we will finally be covering one of our all time favorite foragable plants, the dandelion! We cover the rich history of this plant as both food, medicine, and even a source of rubber. And of course we have to throw our two cents in on the debate between dandelions status as an invasive vs nonnative vs naturlized plant.  We go over where to find this entirely edible memebr of the aster family, as well as how to haevest and eat everythting from the root, to the leaves, to the flowrs to the seeds!

To wrap up this seasons series on food preservation, we are going to finish with the gateway drug to canning. Jam! From jam, to jelly, to fruit butter, even to fruit leather, we cover this simple and tasty food preservation spread and all the ways you can make it. While we do use a simple blueberry jam recipe as an example, we also cover lots of variations, and how to alter it for diferrent fruits. Enjoy!

As we transition from winter to spring, we're shifting gears from talking about winter storage crops to fast growing spring crops. And Turnips, miraculously enough, are both! We talk about this Revolutionary's wonder crop, which is fast growing, easy to store, nutritious, and delicious. We cover not only turnips role as a food crop for humans, but also its use as a cover crop and as a livestock feed. 

We've gotten a ton of requests in the past few months to do an episode on chickens, especially for eggs. We actually plan on doing an special series on livestock in the coming year, including one episode for chickens for eggs and one episode for chickens for meat. But until then, we figured we could put together an episode on eggs, and not just from chickens, but from ducks and quail as well.  We go over the basics for raising any sort of poultry, from their coop, to food to water. We also talk a but about pasturing basics, and whether or not to give poultry an outdoor run, a pasture, a tractor, or just let them free range. We briefly dive into some of the specifics on raising chickens, ducks, and quail, as well as the pros and cons for each. and finally, we wrap up with a but of discussion about eggs, their nutrition, how to use them, and how to preserve them! We hope this episode will help get you by until our deeper dive into livestock, and helps get you started on the journey to egg laying poultry.   

Today we will be tackling our first ever fruit tree on the show, and what better fruit tree to start with than the ubiquitous apple tree. We've expressed our doubts about the utility of apples in the Revolutionary's Garden, but their presence across every american town and prolific nature make them worthwhile to talk about!  We talk about the colonial myths of johnny appleseed, various apple varieites, and some of the diferrences between root stocks, real roots, and dwarf and full sized trees.  While we can only briefly cover topics like pruning, we spend plenty of time on mulching, interplanting, and pest control for your apple trees.  And of course, if you like this epsiode, be sure to check out our other episode on apple cider, so you have plenty to do with all your fresh fruit!