Epic Gardening: Daily Growing Tips And Advice

Bats may have a frightening reputation, but these misunderstood mammals are excellent pest-controllers in the garden. Connect With Merlin Tuttle: Dr. Merlin Tuttle is widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation; he is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats and championed their preservation for over 60 years; widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation. He's the founder of Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, home to his legacy and devoted to research, education, and the conservation of bats, where he is currently and solely active. Through MTBC he provides the world's finest bat photo gallery, the most up-to-date responses to exaggerated disease speculation, and it is the only place to access his more than 60 years of unique experience or support his continuing efforts. Joined by Teresa Nichta ("nikta"), Outreach and Collection Manager at Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation. Teresa manages Merlin’s extensive photographic collection as well as soci

Taking homemade bread to the next level. If you want to grow your wheat at home, this is the episode for you. Sara Mader discusses the different types of wheat, when to plant it, and when to harvest. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th, and enter until Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time.  A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st.   Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays  A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill  Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for fa

If you are in the market for a good companion plant, chickpeas and lentils may be for you! With the exception of a few crops, chickpeas and lentils can be an amazing companion plant. Sara Mader gives us the inside scoop on why the Palouse Brand Farm grows the chickpea variety that they do and tips and tricks for a bountiful harvest. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th and enter through Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time.  A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st.   Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays  A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill  Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. S

Learn from the expert, grow your own lentils! Not only can you harvest your very own lentils fairly easily, you can also improve your soil for the following crop. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday June 12th - Tuesday June 20th. You may only enter 1 time.  A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st.   Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays  A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill  Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for farm-to-table products. Palouse Brand was created out of

Do you wonder how the Palouse Brand Farm is able to grow lentils on its no-till farm? Sara Mader talks about some of their processes and strategies for growing lentils. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th - Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time.  A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st.   Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays  A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill  Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for farm-to-table products. Palouse Brand was create

This week we welcome Sara Mader on the podcast to talk about the evolution of her family’s 125-year-old farm. The Palouse Brand Farm went from a single-crop farm to a multi-crop rotational, water-fed farming operation in 5 generations. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th - Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time.  A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st.   Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays  A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill  Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer co

Whether you have healthy soil or you need to do some remediation, it’s important to implement proper habits into your garden routine to ensure that you stay safe and healthy. Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden

We can remediate this soil the easy way or the hard way. Let’s do it the easy way! We learn how to remediate our soils and the 3 ways that you can actually become contaminated by heavy metals. Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x

Heavy metals and metalloids can come from tons of sources and once they are in the soil, they can stay there for decades to come.. This is one reason it is important to know what surrounds your home and the history of the land it is on.   Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best me

Yesterday, Dr. Anna Paltseva filled us in on why it’s important to know what’s in our soil. Today, she tells us EXACTLY how to take a soil sample and where to get the samples tested.  Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer th

If you are like the team here at Epic, you are curious about what is actually on your soil. Dr. Anna Paltseva shares a few quick ways to test our soils and explains why it’s so important that we know what is in our dirt! Connect With Anna Paltseva: Dr. Anna Paltseva, Endowed Assistant Professor, is an international urban soil scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), School of Geosciences. Her expertise is in urban soil contamination and remediation of urban gardens. She helps people to determine soil heavy metals, their potential impact on human health, and to find the best ways to improve soil quality in urban gardens. In 2021 she established the Delta Urban Soils Laboratory at ULL to provide soil testing services and informal education to communities, small production farmers, and gardeners in Louisiana and beyond. Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in

Join the movement! Certifying your garden as a Wildlife Habitat is a great way to show your values and promote gardening for wildlife in your community. Here is the link to learn more! Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the w

To support birds, you must support insects in your garden. David talks more about the ideas behind Gardening for Wildlife and how we can mimic nature to support birds and other critters.  Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in t

Leaves create a great habitat for some of your favorite critters. Leave your leaves and garden for wildlife! Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and

Pollinators are absolutely crucial to supporting our ecosystem and life on earth. Building your home garden to support pollinators is vital for the health of your garden. As David says, “If you plant it, they will come!” Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds,

Welcoming David Mizejewski with the National Wildlife Federation on he podcast this week! In this episode we talk about Native plants and some of the conversation surrounding them. What is a native plant? What is an invasive plant?  Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised

Why do we need local and small scale farmers as well as large scale agriculture? Both small and large ag offer benefits to our communities.  The Epic Gardening Memorial Day Sale is live now! Buy 3 Birdies Garden Beds, Get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! No code needed. Add 4 Birdies Garden Beds to cart and 1 will automatically be marked free. Shop here. Connect With Grant Weber: Grant Weber grew up in Ritzville, WA. Joined the Air Force and served 21 years, deployed 6 times to the Middle East. He has been at Vets on the Farm for 6 years and is currently the farm manager. He is passionate about growing and teaching people about nutritionally dense food as well as helping veterans find their new mission. Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop B

Get to know your local farmers! Grant Weber shares his tips for how to get to know your local farmer and questions to ask them to tell if they are the real deal or not.   The Epic Gardening Memorial Day Sale is live now! Buy 3 Birdies Garden Beds, Get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! No code needed. Add 4 Birdies Garden Beds to cart and 1 will automatically be marked free. Shop here. Connect With Grant Weber: Grant Weber grew up in Ritzville, WA. Joined the Air Force and served 21 years, deployed 6 times to the Middle East. He has been at Vets on the Farm for 6 years and is currently the farm manager. He is passionate about growing and teaching people about nutritionally dense food as well as helping veterans find their new mission. Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely

Vets on the Farm focuses on education and access when it comes to solving the food desert problem. Educating folks not only about what the foods are, but also how to use them in the kitchen.  The Epic Gardening Memorial Day Sale is live now! Buy 3 Birdies Garden Beds, Get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! No code needed. Add 4 Birdies Garden Beds to cart and 1 will automatically be marked free. Shop here. Connect With Grant Weber: Grant Weber grew up in Ritzville, WA. Joined the Air Force and served 21 years, deployed 6 times to the Middle East. He has been at Vets on the Farm for 6 years and is currently the farm manager. He is passionate about growing and teaching people about nutritionally dense food as well as helping veterans find their new mission. Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions,

Grant Weber shares why farming and getting outdoors helps veterans transition from active duty to civilian life as well as some of what it’s like to be a part of the veteran community.   The Epic Gardening Memorial Day Sale is live now! Buy 3 Birdies Garden Beds, Get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! No code needed. Add 4 Birdies Garden Beds to cart and 1 will automatically be marked free. Shop here. Connect With Grant Weber: Grant Weber grew up in Ritzville, WA. Joined the Air Force and served 21 years, deployed 6 times to the Middle East. He has been at Vets on the Farm for 6 years and is currently the farm manager. He is passionate about growing and teaching people about nutritionally dense food as well as helping veterans find their new mission. Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and