A Better Yard

By Brad at ABetterYard.org

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Episodes: 85

Description

We bring together Upper Midwest gardening enthusiasts who are transitioning to a more sustainable lifestyle to explore eco-friendly landscape and gardening practices, so that we can reduce our chemical use, water use, and create a thriving ecosystem.


Episode Date
Stop Overthinking And Start Planting Native Plants (Part Three of Three)
Jun 16, 2026
How to Reject the Status Quo with A Rebel Garden (Part Two of Three)
Jun 09, 2026
How To Start A Rebel Garden Without Overwhelm (Part One of Three)
Jun 02, 2026
Your Yard Can Feed Birds And Pollinators
May 26, 2026
Your Yard Already Knows How To Compost, Dummy
May 19, 2026
The EFSS Filter for A Better Yard
May 12, 2026
Stop wasting water on your lawn
May 05, 2026
Yard Waste Is Not Waste
Apr 28, 2026
The Anti-Chemical Lawn Plan
Apr 21, 2026
Spring Yard Reset
Apr 13, 2026
Spring's First Flowers While Hiking the Louisville Swamp
Mar 31, 2026
How Trees Know When to Turn: The Science of Fall Color 🍂🍁🍃
Oct 14, 2025
The Key to Healthy Soil
Oct 07, 2025
The EFSS Framework and Minnesota Gardening's Landscape Wellness Stages
Oct 02, 2025
Plant Healthy Plants: Part III of my 3x3 Course
Sep 09, 2025
Environmentally-Responsible Landscape: Part II of my 3x3 Course
Sep 04, 2025
Sustainable Lawn Care: Part I of my 3x3 Course
Aug 20, 2025
All about jumping worms with Laura Van Riper from Minnesota DNR
May 06, 2025
When can I do Spring Gardening tasks?
Apr 29, 2025
Regenerative Gardening with Stephanie Rose
Mar 18, 2025
Fruit Trees with U of M's Madeline Wimmer
Mar 11, 2025
Lawns to Meadows with Owen Wormser
Mar 04, 2025
Seed Starting Supplies and Planning
Feb 11, 2025
Renewed Minnesota Gardening
Dec 31, 2024
Using Winter Design to Reduce Salt Use
Dec 05, 2024
Winter Tasks
Dec 03, 2024
Native Pollinators with Heather Holm
Jul 02, 2024
Succession Planting with Meg Cowden of Seed to Fork
Jun 25, 2024
Urban Foraging with Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging
Jun 18, 2024
STILL with Mary Jo Hoffman
Jun 11, 2024
Lazy Lawn Care
Jun 05, 2024
Winter interest in our landscapes
Jan 10, 2024
Dormancy Distress: Warm weather causes plants to grow out of season
Jan 02, 2024
Grow native perennials with Winter Sowing
Dec 28, 2023
Minnesota's Wacky Weather with Climatologist Dr. Mark Seeley
Dec 19, 2023
The Art of Seed Saving with Como Community Seed Library
Dec 05, 2023
New Hardiness Zones with Mary Schier
Nov 28, 2023
#ThisWeekend: Apply for Lawns to Legumes Funding
Nov 24, 2023
Keystone Plants with Professor Doug Tallamy
Nov 21, 2023
#ThisWeekend: Tree Wrap
Nov 17, 2023
Second Nature with Professor Doug Tallamy
Nov 14, 2023
#ThisWeekend: Remove your invasive plants
Nov 10, 2023
You Probably Have Invasive Plants
Nov 07, 2023
#ThisWeekend: Plant Bulbs and Garlic
Nov 03, 2023
Small-Scale Homesteading
Oct 13, 2023
Leave Your Leaves & Leave Your Stems
Oct 10, 2023
This Weekend: Prune & Support Your Tomatoes
Jul 07, 2023
The Devastating Effects of Emerald Ash Borer in the Upper Midwest
Jun 20, 2023
This Weekend: Water Your Trees!
Jun 16, 2023
This Weekend: Leave the Caterpillars
Jun 09, 2023
June 7, 2023 Live Q&A
Jun 07, 2023
This Weekend: Now is the time to prune lilacs
Jun 02, 2023
[MINI EPISODE] What about dead shrubs?
May 28, 2023
What do I do with bulbs after they are done flowering?
Jun 03, 2022
Grow Bags with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening
May 31, 2022
The Beauty of Succession Planting with Meg Cowden
Mar 29, 2022
So excited to hear how you're doing!!
Mar 01, 2022
Extending the Growing Season in the Upper Midwest
Mar 01, 2022
Hardening Off, Transplanting, and Growing
Mar 01, 2022
Growing Our Seed Babies
Mar 01, 2022
Getting Your Seed Babies Started
Mar 01, 2022
Planning for Preserving Your Harvest
Mar 01, 2022
Planning Your Seed Starting
Mar 01, 2022
Trends in seed starting...and saving
Mar 01, 2022
Indigenous Seeds with Dream of Wild Health
Mar 01, 2022
Of Ecology and Minnesota Gardening
Feb 22, 2022
2022 Trends in Gardening
Feb 15, 2022
Battling Oak Wilt
Feb 08, 2022
Taking action for nature with Doug Tallamy
Feb 01, 2022
Growing Mushrooms at Home
Jan 25, 2022
Creating diversity in our landscapes.
Jan 21, 2022
How to Grow Microgreens
Dec 14, 2021
Minnesota Winter Forecast with Sven Sundgaard
Dec 07, 2021
Protecting Overwintering Insects
Nov 30, 2021
Thankfulness with Megan Gilger from Fresh Exchange
Nov 23, 2021
Dormant Seeding
Nov 16, 2021
Bird feeding in our Minnesota back yards
Nov 09, 2021
Burr Oak Blight Killing Minnesota Trees
Nov 02, 2021
Grow Garlic in Minnesota
Oct 26, 2021
The Ethics of Fall Gardening Tasks
Oct 19, 2021
A new gardener's journey
Oct 12, 2021
Jumping Worms in Minnesota
Oct 05, 2021
Rep Kelly Morrison and her wildly popular #Lawns2Legumes program
Oct 05, 2021
Minnesota Gardening and Climate Change
Oct 05, 2021
Minnesota Gardening Podcast Teaser
Sep 29, 2021