Urban Forestry Radio

Kristy Grigg-McGuffin, Horticulture IPM Specialist from Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs explains what Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is and how you can use it to protect your trees and crops. You can watch the video of this episode here. You can take an online course in IPM for fruit trees here.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Rhonda Massingham Hart explains how to protect fruit trees from wildlife damage. She's the author of Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden and Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Ken Asmus of Oikos Tree Crops in Kalamazoo, MI. has spent decades developing beach plums that taste great and are genetically diverse (rather than grafted clones). He talks about growing beach plum "communities." The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/.  

Entomologist Dr Tracy Leskey, Director of the Appalachian Fruit Research Station at Kearneysville, WV., talks about Brown marmorated stink bugs and how you can keep these invasive pests out of your garden or orchard. Learn how to protect your fruit trees from pests and diseases in this online course.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/.   

Horticulturalist Dan Bissonnette, author of The Pawpaw Grower's Manual For Ontario, talks about pawpaw trees, a native tree to North America that produces delicious fruit that tastes like a mix of mango, banana and vanilla custard.Learn more about pawpaws in this article.  The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Listen to the best of The Urban Forestry Radio Show on RealityRadio101.com! We'll talk about growing seabuckthorn, cultivating beneficial insects, battling fireblight and coping with climate change!The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Greg Peterson of www.urbanfarm.org talks about growing fruit trees in Phoenix, Arizona. And Russ Cohen from Arlington Massachusetts talks about edible native plants. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Alen Rosic, a 39-year-old immigrant from the Balkan Peninsula talks about an annual chestnut festival in Iowa that he organizes for the strong Bosnian community there. Dr. Sandra Anagnostakis of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station talks about developing more disease resistant chestnut trees. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Rob Wyles of Washington State talks about how he discovered the new "Foxtrot" apple. Daryl Somers of the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Ontario talks about the science behind taste and apple breeding.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Linda Chalker-Scott, an associate professor and horticulturist at Washington State University and the author of "How Plants Work: The Science Behind The Amazing Things That Plants Do" talks about what leaves are telling you about your tree's health. Lynn Long, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University talks about cherry root stock. Read more about cherry root stock in this article.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Learn how to make cider with your apple harvest with Ben Watson, Author of Cider Hard and Sweet. And learn why women are being encouraged to look for jobs in arboriculture and forestry in an interview with Katrina van Osch-Saxon of Fleming College’s Urban Forestry Program.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Dr Kari A. Peter, Assistant Professor of Fruit Tree Pathology at Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Centre talks about how to protect your apple and pear trees from fire blight. William Preston of Preston’s Persimmon Patch in Calvert County, Maryland, talks about how to select and plant a persimmon tree or shrub that produces fruit that actually tastes good.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Entomologist Dr Gary Judd of B.C.'s Summerland Research and Development Centre explains why it is important to understand the sex lives of fruit tree pests if you want to protect your fruit trees from insect infestations. Pomologist Chuck Ingels of the University of California's Cooperative Extension in Sacramento talks about fruit tree irrigation. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Bill Schroeder of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Swift Current Research and Development Centre in Indian Head, Saskatchewan talks about growing nutrient-rich seabuckthorn berries. Joanie Cooper, the president of the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Molalla, Oregon talks about cloning America’s large private collection of apple trees – consisting of over 4,500 varieties from around the world.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Clemson University fruit specialist Guido Schnabel talks about the MyIPM (Integrated Pest Management) app. Arborist Warren Hoselton of the Canadian Tree Fund who talks about the importance of funding tree research and education.

Greg Peck of Cornell University discusses how climate change is affect the way we grow our fruit trees. And...what to do with your bumper crop with Joel MacCharles of wellpreserved.ca.

Dr. Bob Bors of the University of Saskatchewan talks about a dwarf cherry shrub breeding program. Loretta Bors, Dr Bors wife, talks about her cookbook “Cooking with Cherries from the Prairies” (by Cecilia Kachkowski, Loretta Bors and Lily Sawatzky).Learn more about cherry shrubs in this article. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Ryan Hatt, Business Development Manager of the Arbor Day Foundation on a project to promote shade grown coffee as a way to tackle poverty – and to save the rainforest. Ernie Grimo from Grimo Nut Nursery on the secrets of growing nut trees and the role nut trees can play in bringing food security to communities. And Sue Arndt of Not Far From The Tree on how Toronto’s fantastic fruit harvesting project helps get fresh fruit to those who need it most.The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Learn how beneficial insects can protect your fruit trees from pests and insect infestations in this hour-long podcast featuring Jessica Walliser, Author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden and Brian Spencer, President, of biological pest control company Applied Bio-nomics.Click here to read an article about attracting beneficial bugs to your garden. The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to grow organic fruit trees successfully. Sign up for OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/. 

Jason Adkins of Trevecca Nazerine University talks about  botanical tree names. Erica Smith Fichman, Program Manager of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s TreePhilly Program on how her organization is turning Philadelphia into a "City of Arborly Love". The host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The Urban Forestry Radio Show LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time.Learn to care for fruit trees through OrchardPeople.com's premium online courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/.