Jackie Marie Beyer

430. My 2025 Compost bin

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 7, 2025 |

Nutmeg helps us lay out all the parts and pieces I got this Vivosun Compost bin off of Amazon for a bit of a cost of $150.00 but it’s so worth it to see my mom have an easy place to throw her scraps and leaves and make that good rich soil for her new…

429. Five Reasons You Should Build A Kitchen Garden

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 5, 2025 |

People often ask me, “What is a kitchen garden?” What it is not is a garden in your kitchen. It’s not a tower full of lettuce growing in water next to your microwave or a pot of herbs on your windowsill. The answer is actually quite simple: a kitchen garden is essentially a bed of fruits,…

428. 5 Lessons I Learned Building a Kitchen Garden For My Mom this Spring •

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 3, 2025 |

5 Lessons I learned building a kitchen garden bed for my mom include measuring, leveling, filling with soil, finding a convenient water source and buying local starts or seeds.

429. Five Reasons You Should Build A Kitchen Garden

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 3, 2025 |

Five Reasons You Should Build A Kitchen Garden People often ask me, “What is a kitchen garden?” What it is not is a garden in your kitchen. It’s not a tower full of lettuce growing in water next to your microwave or a pot of herbs on your windowsill. The answer is actually quite simple:…

Five Lessons I Learned Building A Kitchen Garden

By Jackie Marie Beyer | August 26, 2025 |

Lesson #1: Measure First. My original plans for my mom’s bed was to build it 8’x4’ using four two-by-sixes cut in half and eight full-size. Before the associate at Home Depot made the first cut, I wondered how I’d fit an 8-foot board in my mom’s car. So, we ended up taking a couple…

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427. Cultivating Connections | Homestead Organics | Laura Garber | Hamilton, MT

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 19, 2022

True Leaf Market is offering a discount code for listeners to get 15% off cover crop seeds: GOG15. (See disclosures below) https://www.cultivatingconnectionsmt.org/about-us-1 Where the food is the by-product and the product is the relationship and learning that students get from working on the farm and growing lettuce and you get to eat the lettuce that…

426. Bluebird Gardens | CHARLOTTE EKKER WIGGINS | Missouri

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 8, 2022

Tuesday • March 15, 2022 Here from Missouri is an amazing beekeeper, gardener, and author, CHARLOTTE EKKER WIGGINS! Bee Club Basics: How to Start a Bee Club A Beekeeper’s Diary: Self Guide to Keeping Bees Has lots of checklists to help you get started. Master Beekeeper class is using her next book Bees Need Flowers, Planting…

Bonus Episode August 2022 Earwigs are Beneficial Insects for your Garden

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 5, 2022

I thought you might like to hear my recent article in the TV News: August 2022 It’s hot, is it not?! But that’s summer, and at least our nights drop down to cool things off. Besides you can always go jump in a lake, we certainly have lots of them around the Tobacco Valley. For…

425. Garden Variety | Christy Wilhelmi | Gardenerd | Los Angeles, CA

By Jackie Marie Beyer | September 5, 2022

Garden Variety: A Novel Win a copy of Garden Variety by tagging a friend and also Christy @gardenerd1 and Jackie @GREENorgaincGardenPodcast with #gardenvarietybook and you will be entered to win a copy of Garden Variety on the Fall equinox Thursday • September 22, 2022! March 11, 2022 Back to tell us about her new book Garden Variety.…

Soil Sista Saturday 2022 | August 28, 2022 | Golden Listener Aileen Catrone

By Jackie Marie Beyer | August 28, 2022

JackieMarie and Aileen share what’s growing well, what’s their biggest challenge this summer and what they’re cooking from their garden in 2022. Aileen is in NJ And JackieMarie is in NW Montana. Aileen has started Artichoke sprouts after doing a stratification process where she froze the seeds. Both have peppers taking off. Jackie mentions that…