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First Aired - 06/05/2011 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen & Alice chat with Patty Craft, the Managing Editor of Horticulture Magazine. They discuss the current state of print media and how times are changing for those in the world of publication. Tune in to learn about the future of horticulture and how garden enthusiasts share their passion through social media, the internet, and old fashioned print media. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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We Dig Plants: Horticulture Magazine (21:38)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Heritage Radio Network, community gardens, Patty Craft, Managing Editor, Horticulture Magazine, is print dead?, gardening, reader backlash, master gardeners, magazines are supported by subscribers, magazines are thinner than they once were,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/02/2010 03:30PM
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Alice & Carmen talk about the historical and modern role of women in horticulture.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Great Ladies of Horticulture (15:07)
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Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Kreig, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Bushwick, Roberta's, Jack Inslee, Great Ladies of Horticulture, Alice & Carmen are garden designers and contractors, they design and build gardens, unique niche in a male dominated industry, Carmen comes from a farming background, the womans role in keeping garden has evolved over centuries, Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts, she was a working woman in the 1950's, women invented horticulture, women got banished to trivial jobs when men started gardening, imprisoned in the flower garden, menstruation superstition, the golden age of gardening, the second oldest profession,Gertrude Jekyll & Beatrix Farrand (18:50)
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women could not be land owners, women were banished to inside the garden walls, there are two pioneering women, Gertrude Jekyll, she had poor eye sight and turned to landscape gardening, her style was simple, ordered disorder, the style of the cottage garden, theme of romance, middle class gardens emitting careless rapture, hap hazard effect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Martha Stewart has made a fortune thanks to these women, she was a privileged lady, neo arts and crafts movement, harmonies of color, Edwardian school of good taste, her most famous garden is Munstead Wood, The Glebe House, look to her for proper bordering, Beatrix Farrand, born in 1872, died in 1951, she was exposed to a great social network, her aunt was Edith Wharton, America was trying to emulate Europe at that time, American Society of Landscape Architects, only women on that council, referred to herself as a landscape gardener, her draftsmanship was amazing, women have come a long way!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/10/2011 02:00PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen & Alice are joined by Susan Cohan & Rochelle Greayer of the brand new horticulture publication "Leaf". Tune in to learn more about how gardening, landscape design and farming are all related and well represented in this forward thinking magazine. Find out how Susan & Rochelle founded "Leaf" and what it takes to run a successful publication in today's digital age. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
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