Avant Gardeners

By Madeleine Gasparinatos & Emily Allen

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Episodes: 57

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With lots of enthusiasm and very little know how, Emily and Maddie love chatting about gardening, often with a glass of wine or cocktail in hand. In each fortnightly episode, we speak to people who inspire us in the garden, in order to unearth some much needed knowledge.

Episode Date
Mitch Theissen // The Agrarian Kitchen, Compost, Soil Health, Japanese Salad Turnip
May 05, 2026
Baklava Old Fashioned, Dehydrator Season and We Answer Your Questions!
Apr 28, 2026
Rubie Gallagher // Gardening with a Disability, Starting a Micro Flower Farm, Dahlia Cuttings, Running Away From Home
Apr 21, 2026
A Hospital Stay, Writing Lists & South Sydney's Jacaranda History
Apr 14, 2026
Jac Semmler // Flower Power, Pivoting to Horticulture, Super Bloom, Writing Books, Poppy Hacks
Mar 24, 2026
Op Shops, Toilet Paper & Plums Galore
Mar 17, 2026
Steven Wells // Therapeutic Gardening, Downsizing, Churchill Fellowship, Gardener Folk
Mar 10, 2026
Maddie + Em // Alpacas and New Neural Pathways
Mar 03, 2026
Jo Thompson (UK) // Chelsea Flower Show, 6pm wines, Favourite Roses, Trypophobia
Feb 24, 2026
A notebook full of failures - Maddie and Emily chat!
Feb 17, 2026
Jodi Wilson // A Brain That Breathes, Soft Fascination, The Power of Pottering in the Garden, Books for you to read
Jan 05, 2026
Emma Horswill // Earthenry Flower Farm, Dahlias, Cover Crops, Pulse Watering, Ranunculus
Dec 02, 2025
Rachel Ward // Regenerative Farming, Small Farms, Nature and Creativity, Farmthru
Nov 25, 2025
Mark Udovitch // Inner City Permaculture, bees, chickens, mushrooms, Permaculture in the Pub
Nov 18, 2025
Merlin Sheldrake // Fungi, Mushrooms, Fermenting, Entangled Life
Nov 11, 2025
Tim Pilgrim // Naturalistic Design, The Winter Decay, Apartment plantings,
Nov 04, 2025
Mindy Woods // Native Ingredients, Karkalla at Home, First Nations Calendar, Foraging, Whisky Sour
Oct 28, 2025
Brenna Quinlan // Permaculture Guru, Strawbale Home, Art Activism, Rest
Oct 21, 2025
Katie Finlay // Grow Great Fruit, Pruning, Grafting, Pest Control, Chamomile & Gin
Aug 19, 2025
Scott Whitaker - Hinterland Bees // Bees, Honey, Varroa, Honey Mead, Hollyhock, Chickens
Aug 05, 2025
Nikki Husted - Purely Chickens // Homesteading, Chicken Life (And Death), Gardening with Chickens, Lindt Ball Hot Choc
Jul 22, 2025
Sue Stuart-Smith // From 'outdoor housework' to The Well Gardened Mind, Gardening for Mind & Body, the Power of Flowers, The Barn Garden
Jul 08, 2025
Alex Elliott-Howery // Pickling, Courtyard Gardening, Telepathic Bay Leaves, Mushrooms, Preserving, Cornersmith
May 06, 2025
BONUS EPISODE // Flower Photography with professional photographer Sam Shelley
Apr 29, 2025
Milli Proust // Seed Grower, Florist, Alma Proust, Anxiety, Drying Flowers, Compost Palace (UK)
Apr 22, 2025
Lauren Camilleri // Indoor Plant Guru, Plant Doctor, Monstera, Pottery, Fungus Gnats
Apr 08, 2025
Holly Wainwright // Discovering Gardening, Therapy Lettuce, Rat Battle, Searching for Zen
Mar 25, 2025
Emma Bowen // Pocket City Farms, Permaculture Orchard, Julia Ostro
Mar 11, 2025
Connie Cao // Urban Gardener, Asian Veggie Garden specialist, Berry Guru, Chicken Mum
Feb 25, 2025
Summer Series - Revisiting Phil Dudman - The Good Guy of Gardening (New Intro)
Jan 28, 2025
Summer Series - Revisiting Charles Dowding - No Dig Guru (New Intro)
Jan 21, 2025
Summer Series - Revisiting Compostable Kate (New Intro)
Jan 15, 2025
Diego Bonetto // Edible Weeds, Foraging, The Weedy One, Cape Weed, Dandelion, Mulberry, Mushrooming
Dec 17, 2024
Natasha Morgan / Daylesford, Tree Change, Wicking Beds, Autism, Preserving, Finding Community
Dec 03, 2024
Petrina Blooms // Ranunculus, Slow floristry, Designing Your Garden Spaces, Roses, Creating a Bouquet
Nov 19, 2024
Matthew Evans // Gourmet Farmer, Fat Pig Farm, Soil Health, Growing Veggies, Wicking Beds, Grounded Australia
Nov 05, 2024
Huw Richards (UK) // Welsh countryside, Impact Planting, Hot Beds, Weeding, Composting
Oct 15, 2024
Hannah Maloney // Permaculture, Hedgerows, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Flower Power,
Oct 01, 2024
Justin O'Brien // Community Gardens, Camden floods, Bee Keeping, Mulch Trolls and Champion Pumpkins
Sep 17, 2024
Chloe Thomson // Garden Coach, shade-planting guru, lover of fruit trees in pots
Sep 03, 2024
Erin Lovell Verinder // Plant lover, herbalist, gardening to thrive, never underestimate the power of a herbal tea
Aug 20, 2024
Phil Dudman / maximising space, growing from seed, pests, the discipline (and joy) of gardening
Apr 30, 2024
Rodney Dunn / The Agrarian Kitchen, no dig gardening, favourite books, last meal requests
Apr 16, 2024
Sam Vincent / My Father and Other Animals, regenerative farming, figs, akubras
Apr 02, 2024
Sophia Kaplan / Floristry, running away to Paris, Indoor Plants
Mar 19, 2024
Charles Dowding / Biodynamics, Politics of Allotments, The Fast Five / Part 2
Mar 05, 2024
Charles Dowding / Guru of no dig gardening / Part 1
Feb 20, 2024
Compostable Kate - Beyonce, All things composting, cocktails, hot compost and climate change
Feb 06, 2024
Jac Semmler - Super Bloom founder, flower lover, unapologetic maximalist.
Jan 23, 2024
Kirsten Bradley - Milkwood Permaculture
Dec 12, 2023
Ashley James - Meadow Flowers & Kitchen Gardens
Nov 28, 2023
Brenton Roberts and his amazing Adelaide Hills garden
Nov 14, 2023
Sadie Chrestman - Fat Pig Farm
Oct 31, 2023
Dimity May - Tiny Farm Tas
Oct 17, 2023
Pip Steele-Wareham Part 2 - Garden at Moorfield
Oct 03, 2023
Pip Steele-Wareham Part 1 - Garden at Moorfield
Sep 19, 2023
Digging for treasure - Emily & Maddie
Sep 06, 2023