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LH 88: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Organic Garden

LH 88: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Organic Garden

FromLiving Homegrown Podcast with Theresa Loe


LH 88: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Organic Garden

FromLiving Homegrown Podcast with Theresa Loe

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode is about taking a natural approach to pest control and avoiding sprays and pesticides...even organic ones. You see, many people think that switching to organic gardening methods just means changing from synthetic sprays to more natural/organic ones. But the truth is that if you have a more balanced ecosystem in your garden, you don't need sprays AT ALL.  And that is what we cover in this podcast.  Host Theresa Loe brings on author and organic gardening expert, Jessica Walliser to share how we as organic gardeners can shift our mindset when it comes to bugs. You learn: About the ecosystem of your own backyard and how to balance it, Making the shift from sprays to no-sprays, Do plants have immune systems, Can a plant send out a distress call, How to change your mindset about bugs, How to attract the "good bugs", What is a beetle bump and why in the world would we want one in our backyard and much more. As always, you can go to www.LivingHomegrown.com/88 to get all the links mentioned in the episode, more free information and a full PDF transcript of the show. 
Released:
Feb 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

LivingHomegrown is all about living farm fresh without the farm. Through canning and preserving, artisan food crafting, and small-space food growing you can enjoy the flavors of the season and live a more sustainable lifestyle no matter how small of a space you call home. Hosted by TV canning expert and national PBS TV producer, Theresa Loe, this weekly podcast alternates between solo episodes and interviews with the rock stars of the DIY food movement and each weekly episode helps you live closer to your food.