The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel
The Garden Culture Podcast is more than just a how-to garden podcast, this is a place where we let the garden inspire our lives, as well as get to know incredible people who infuse their own lives with the magic of nature and gardening. Follow along as we talk about what to do in the garden each month and interview interesting people who weave gardening into their lives. Our host, Bailey Van Tassel, is a home gardener and the founder of a national gardening club. Her goal is to get more people gardening, especially in suburbia and small spaces, as she has. Bailey's mission is to make gardening an American pastime and a part of our innate culture. Her hope is to have more families raise their kids with a reverence for nature and an instinct for growing their own food and flowers.
Episodes
Bailey announces that the podcast is taking a pause as she focuses on her design business and her Substack. The podcast will come back after 500 paid subscribers on Substack - a fun goal that we can all work towards!
Thank you all so much for your support thus far with the podcast, it really means the world!
Bailey's Substack, In The Garden is HERE.
You can get your copy of Kitchen Garden Living by Bailey Van Tassel HERE
Bailey Van Tassel interviews Steven Hoffen, a high-schooler who started a hydroponics non-profit that feeds over 33,000 people yearly in underserved populations. Steven went to Isreal in seventh grade and was inspired to make a film about women coming together to grow their own food with hydroponics. That quickly turned into his pursuit of using hydroponic systems to help people who are incarcerated, the elderly, and asylum seekers...
Bailey Van Tassel talks about how to design your own kitchen garden, prioritizing aesthetic versus space for veggies, and the way she breaks down client projects. Fall and Winter are great times to tackle new builds, so you can get a jump on Spring.
To get a custom design quote to work with Bailey go HERE.
For the design download, go here: https://stan.store/baileyvantassel
For the design quiz, go HERE.
Bailey Van Tassel interviews author and journalist Simon Parkin about his book, The Forbidden Garden - The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice. Bailey recommends this as one of her favorite books, as it is wildly important in modern times to understand the importance of seeds and their ultimate fragility. Parkin talks about how he came to find this story and the importance of telling it. There are a few spoi...
This week Bailey Van Tassel interviews Emilie Toups, founder and CEO of Toups & Co Organics, a clean skincare line that specializes in tallow and animal-based products. Emilie digs into the main question of, "What actually makes products clean?" and shares how she's healed thyroid disorder, eczema, and more. Bailey and Emilie also talk about the special Toups tallow rendering process, why animal-based skincare is so good for yo...
This week Bailey digs into two ecological practices that have enhanced and redirected her home garden experience, boidynamics and permaculture. She explains why she's making a biodynamic 500 preparation of putting fresh cow manure into a raw cow horn and how shes designing her space to be more symbiotic with nature than in opposition with it.
To order Kitchen Garden Living, go HERE.
For more info on biodynamics go HERE.
Bailey Van Tassel is joined by Angela Yoder, the co-founder of Yoderbilt who makes greenhouses, chicken coops, and other homestead structures. Angela talks about how her husband built her a greenhouse seeking to solve for sturdiness and also beauty. They now have a thriving business that serves just that purpose: to build beautiful and functional structures that add charm and purpose to your farm or garden. Angela shares about her ...
In this episode Bailey shares about what living a "garden-inspired life" means and gives some encouragement for gardeners. She talks about some of the evolutions that take place within the gardener as they learn, as well as a the importance of things like community and sharing the harvest.
Mentioned in this episode:
Bailey's book, Kitchen Garden Living. Pre-order and get your bonuses HERE.
In this episode, Bailey Van Tassel reviews the four methods that she recommends for filling a raised bed for the very first time.
To pre-order Kitchen Garden Living and get bonuses, go HERE.
MORE:
- To join Bailey's monthly gardening club, The Kitchen Garden Society, go HERE.
- For wool pellets go HERE. Code: BAILEY10
- To learn more about Bailey go to www.baileyvantassel.com
In this episode, Bailey Van Tassel gives an update on their cross-country move from California to Tennessee and the hidden benefits. She also shares the reality of the actual move itself and answers her most-asked questions about it all from her community.
To pre-order Kitchen Garden Living and get all the bonuses, go HERE.
Today Bailey interviews the founders of Juna, a plant-based wellness company that uses science, herbalism, biology, and naturopathy to create formulas that enhance our health. Taylor Lamb and Jewel Zimmer share each of their stories in coming to the wellness and plant space - one fueled by a childhood in the family-owned plant nursery and one a chef. Over the course of the conversation, they talk about the 90,000 chemicals introduc...
Today Bailey helps you prepare for Autumn in the kitchen garden with her four top tips. She shares her number one most essential product as well as reads an excerpt from her book, Kitchen Garden Living.
Bailey mentions a live planning call that is for anyone who pre-orders the book. You can access that HERE.
More about Bailey at www.baileyvantassel.com or DM her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel
Bailey Van Tassel unpacks her thought process when it comes to expanding on a homestead and when to add new elements like the garden, greenhouse, livestock, chickens, etc.
To pre-order Bailey's book, Kitchen Garden Living, go HERE and snag your bonus!
To follow Bailey on Instagram, go here.
To join the monthly garden club, The Kitchen Garden Society, go HERE.
To pre-order Bailey's book, Kitchen Garden Living, go HERE and get bonuses!
This week Bailey Van Tassel addresses some fun questions about berries, slugs, and pill bugs. She gives her tips and best practices. She also updates you on her new home garden and the square footage they're working with, some worries and some excitement with the property.
Bailey references the episode about wool pellets, which is episode 064. You can...
In this episode, Bailey Van Tassel walks you through her kitchen garden of the last two years and talks about the five biggest mistakes she made as well as the five best choices she made. She goes into garden design, cost, function, and plants as well as what she will do again with her new garden build.
Some links mentioned:
Pre-order Bailey's Book HERE and get a bonus!
Toups & Co skincare HERE. Use code BVT10
RV Water filers H...
Bailey Van Tassel and friend, Katie Selvidge discuss Martha Stewart in response to the recent CNN documentary, The Many Lives of Martha Stewart. Katie is the Founder and Former editor-in-chief of Cottage Hill Magazine, now running a farmette and selling babydoll sheep. She is a lifelong Martha Stewart fan and has seen her live, as well as collected many of her magazines and books. Bailey and Katie dig into how Martha impacted them ...
Bailey Van Tassel goes through six steps to designing your own kitchen garden, starting with how to properly gather and unpack inspiration. She goes through finding the right space, measuring it out, and planning for beds, borders, and pathways. Bailey talks about some of the programs that she uses to do this and how to think about configuring your space. This is a great listen to bookmark or send to a garden friend!
After a request from a listener, Bailey talks about managing grief through the garden. This episode has a trigger warning for lightly talking about miscarriage and death. Bailey shares personal experiences and her three main points for how to use and think about your space while managing loss. Bailey talks about how being a gardener has carried her through hard times and how she managed that.
This Episode is sponsored by Calzuro...
Bailey digs into how to prep your kitchen garden for vacation this year, protecting it from heat and pests. She shares tips from the perspective of how many days out you are from the trip, working towards your final date of departure, and making sure that your garden is well thought out.
This Episode is sponsored by Calzuro! For info on Calzuro and their wonderful clogs: www.calzuro.com and use code "GARDEN15" for 15% off!
This discussion is one of my favorites to date! The truth about seeds is that they are not all created equal. In fact, where they come from is quite important. Anne Fletcher of Orta Kitchen Gardens joins us and tells her story of creating beautiful seed-starting pots after killing so many of her plants. Anne is a self-proclaimed unnatural green thumb with ADHD who wanted to start her own seeds and needed a more hands-off sol...
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