The Dirty Gardener Podcast~ Lessons in Life, Love and Landscaping
The Dirty Gardener Podcast
Lessons in Life, Love and Landscaping
It’s been a long time coming and it’s finally happening. While I love my blog and the opportunity to write and purge, I’m excited to announce my new podcast “The Dirty Gardener”, Lessons in Life, Love and Landscaping”. I’m especially excited to just sit and have an adult conversation about one of my favorite topics, which is all things nature, gardening and our relationship with the earth and each other.
This view is over 70% edible plants and trees
A lot of people may not realize the innate connection we all have with the Earth because we’ve come to take it for granted. But the way we treat out yards and planet is in direct correlation with the response we get from the life and loves we share.
When we value the natural gifts that surround us, we are humbled to the gifts of life itself as well as the love we give and take. The most precious gifts of water, air, soil, fauna and flora are scared and essential to our lives. Protecting that gift is first and foremost in the act or practices of gardening.
The responsibility of a landscape, lawn or garden are not to be taken lightly. Much like our general health, there is no quick fix, but a daily practice and commitment to the natural and healthy approach to a promising future.
Mother Tree
When we look to the rainforest, we find decomposing plants and animals that become food for the plants trees, animal leavings, bugs and insects, as well as beneficial fungi and bacteria needed for plant health. If we threw chemicals (fast food) at each problem, we would find over time that the ecosystem would break down and eventually collapse on itself. The same is true in our yards, in our lives and with our loved ones.
It’s not to say you’d throw chemicals at a loved one to help your relationship grow, but it is to say that it requires work to maintain a healthy relationship, a healthy life and a healthy landscape. The chemical companies want you to believe there is a “magic pill” in a bottle or bag of granular poison, but that would be like consuming soda and fast food every day in the place of nutrient rich food and water, then thinking you’ll be healthy.
Compost Can Save the World
Compost can save the world because it is natural source of food for plants, trees, and soil that won’t harm the environment or the animals that live in it. Instead, it adds soil depth, food for plants, trees and mycorrhizal fungi which improves moisture retention.
Dark, nutrient rich soil is another area that most “Lawnscapers” do not understand. That orange dirt they paid $10 bucks for may have made them a profit, but it just cost you and your landscape a fortune. Compost can save the world!
Consider the loving attention you give to your partner, children or fur babies. That love is the food that gives wings to that relationship. If that love it not returned, it will eventually run ground. If you phone in your work on a regular basis, you will eventually outstay your welcome. Each level of success requires work, sacrifice, determination and perseverance.
Landscaping is Dirty a Business
My new podcast which is hosted by my husband of over 30 years will be about the lasting commitment to life, love and landscaping. It won’t be your grandma’s podcast. It will be a raw, real, down and dirty conversation about the stewardship of our land and lives as well as the recalibrating affect that nature provides to us.
Our conversations will cover organic gardening, native and adapted plants and trees, timing of planting, water conservation, water collection, irrigation, light requirements, substrates and design. It will also relate to the psychology of the efforts we put into it. The why, the where and the how to’s of life, love and landscaping.
Please like and subscribe to my podcast at https://sites.libsyn.com/506253/the-dirty-gardener-the-first-one
Lets grow together
Lisa LaPaso
Lisa’s Landscape and Design
“Saving the planet One Yard at a Time”
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