Small Scale Life Podcast
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Displaying Episode 41 - 50 of 79 in total of Small Scale Life Podcast with the tag “gardening”.
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SSG: How to Grow 1 Million Meals with Drew Demler
September 10th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
aquaponics, community building, gardening, homesteading, self-watering systems, urban farming
In this episode, I sit down with Drew Demler from Big Tex Urban Farms and discuss various aquaponic systems and mobile garden beds used to grow 1 million meals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Small Scale Gardening Podcast: Start with the Why
August 19th, 2019 | 15 mins 35 secs
gardening, homesteading, podcast, self-watering systems, wicking beds
In this episode, I am trying something new. This is the pilot episode of the new Small Scale Gardening Podcast. In this podcast, I am focusing on gardening and food preservation, which are my passions. As I learned from my good friend Greg Burns, I need to "Start with the Why" as I begin this effort.
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Leaving a Legacy - Tribute to Larry Hall
May 31st, 2019 | 17 mins 32 secs
building community, gardening, homesteading, leaving a legacy, rain gutter grow systems
Our friend, husband, father, grandfather and gardening innovator Larry Hall passed away and was laid to rest this week. It got me thinking: how are you leaving a legacy for future generations of friends, children and grandchildren?
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Happy Mother's Day 2019
May 15th, 2019 | 32 mins 26 secs
building community, gardening, homesteading
In this episode of the Small Scale Life Podcast, I discuss a great Mother's Day Weekend with a full house. There was a lot of family and community building last week, and there is a big garden update as well. It's another action-packed episode of the Small Scale Life Podcast!
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Starting to Build Community
April 19th, 2019 | 41 mins 55 secs
building community, gardening, homesteading
In our 138th episode of the Small Scale Life Podcast, I talk about a number of subjects including wishing you all a Happy Easter, Weekend 3 Things, working through our busy week, gardening, and starting to build community .
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Soup Gardening with Michael Bell
April 11th, 2019 | 37 mins 53 secs
gardening, homesteading, self-watering systems, soup gardening, wicking beds
Michael Bell and I get together and discuss growing high calorie vegetables and herbs. These vegetables are typically the ones found in vegetable soup, hence naming this "Soup Gardening."
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Growing Easy with GrowOya at Dallas Half Acre Farms
March 21st, 2019 | 46 mins
gardening, growoya, homesteading, self-watering systems, urban farming
Michael has made several improvements to the farm including installing new tunnels, increasing the number of seedlings he needs, improving his seedling growing processes and growing easy with GrowOyas!
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Growing Salanova Salad Empires in Dallas, Texas
December 5th, 2018 | 48 mins 47 secs
gardening, homesteading, market gardening, urban farming
Michael Bell and I discuss how he is changing his business from a CSA model to growing salanova salad empires in the Dallas, Texas.
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Late August Garden Update 2018
August 28th, 2018 | 47 mins 20 secs
garden update, gardening, gutter gardens, herbs, raised beds, urban homestead, vegetables, vertical gardens
It has been a while since our last tour of the Small Scale Life Garden, so I figured it was time to post a Late August Garden Update and discuss my Fall Planting strategy.
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How to Prune Tomatoes to Improve Production and Plant Health
August 2nd, 2018 | 30 mins 55 secs
gardening, pruning tomatoes
One way to increase your tomato production is by pruning tomatoes. In this episode, I am going to discuss how to prune tomatoes to improve the health of your plants and to grow more tomatoes. Buckle up, buttercup, because we are going to talk about aggressively pruning those plants!