22: The Goodness of Gardening: A Foolproof Guide to Planting with Your Kids
Guest: Lilly Steirer
Spring is here! While we’re at home with our kids, what a great opportunity to make starting the garden a family project. Truth be told, I’ve always taken the shortcut of buying plants in containers. But this year…seeds! Our guest, Lilly Steirer, shares with us the ins & outs of growing seedlings along with a lot of other gardening wisdom.
Lilly is a passionate chef & gardener who teaches the kids’ Cooking From the Garden program at Slow Food Denver. She’s also the co-host of Sustainable Colorado, where she and her husband share their family’s adventures in minimizing waste during their Zero Waste Year.
In this episode, Lilly shares:
Techniques for growing seedlings that may be surprising if the last time you learned to plant seeds was pre-school – and which plants make the best candidates for seedlings
How to grow a salad in a pot
The most “traumatic” and important part of gardening that most people skip
How most of us garden the way conventional farming is done, and better approaches for biodiversity and thriving crops