Growing with Nature - Trailer

Growing with Nature - Trailer

Author: Daron Williams May 21, 2021 Duration: 2:06

Do you want to bring nature to your backyard, grow food, and help heal our living world? Join Daron Williams—restoration ecologist, permaculture enthusiast, and lifelong gardener—for concrete steps you can take at home to cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife. 

This podcast is a hands-on journey through regenerative soil building, permaculture, restoration ecology and more. 

We’ll learn how to plant fruit trees, berries, and perennial vegetables to get abundant, low-maintenance harvests for your family and community, year after year. 

We’ll learn how to build healthy, living soil, no matter what your soil looks like today:

How to build the soil life that will help your plants thrive, and how you can break up even the most compacted soil without having to dig through it. 

We’ll learn how you can support wildlife, so you can keep pests in balance and enjoy the living world around you.

Like how you can create habitat for predators of common garden pests and enjoy more harvests for your family and community.

And how you can attract songbirds and hummingbirds in multitudes, and enjoy their colorful dance right outside your doorstep. 

We’ll talk about native plants, and why songbirds and native pollinators depend on them, and how you can bring these plants home to create a place-based landscape full of beauty, abundance and life. 

And on this hands-on journey, we’ll talk about how to work with the unique characteristics of your property—to make the most of the space you have to cultivate abundance for people, plants and wildlife. 

Your journey—is just beginning. Let’s work together to heal our living world.

Subscribe to the Growing with Nature podcast on your favorite listening app, and watch for new episodes every Wednesday morning starting on June 2nd 2021. 

Tune in, grab a shovel, and make the living world around you come alive.

Click here to learn more about Growing with Nature.

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Daron Williams has spent a lifetime with his hands in the soil, and in Growing with Nature, he shares that deep, practical knowledge with anyone curious about the ground beneath their feet. As a restoration ecologist and permaculture practitioner, Daron moves beyond simple gardening tips to explore how our personal spaces-a balcony, a backyard, a community plot-can become active participants in a healthier ecosystem. Each episode feels like a conversation with a thoughtful neighbor who has both the science and the stories to back it up. You’ll hear about transforming lawn into productive food forests, creating habitats for native pollinators, and understanding the quiet rhythms of soil and season that make cultivation possible. This isn’t just theory; it’s about the tangible, sometimes messy, joy of working with natural processes. The podcast digs into the how and the why, offering listeners a genuine sense of agency. Whether you’re aiming to grow your first tomato or design a landscape that supports local wildlife, Daron provides a grounded, encouraging path forward. It’s for those who find satisfaction in a handful of compost and wonder in a sprouting seed, an invitation to participate directly in the living world. Tune in for a blend of ecology, hands-on guidance, and the simple conviction that small steps at home can ripple outward.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 34

Growing with Nature
Podcast Episodes
Let’s Design a Fruit Tree Guild [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:07
Designing a fruit tree guild doesn’t have to be a challenge. While it’s easy to get lost in the details there are some simple strategies you can follow to make your fruit tree guilds. In this episode, we will design a fr…
Why You Need Plant-Eating Insects in Your Garden [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:33
Your garden needs plant-eating insects. While it’s common for gardeners to feel like they’ve got to fight insects, the opposite is true.In this episode, we look at the role plant-eating insects play in the garden and how…
Let’s Explore a Food Forest – Plus 3 Tips to Get Started [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:01
Have you ever wondered what a food forest is? How do you grow food in a forest?In this episode, we explore the layers of a food forest, the plants growing in each layer, and how it all comes together to cultivate abundan…
What is the Soil Food Web and Why it Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:33
If you want your plants to thrive then you need a healthy soil food web.In this episode, we look at the soil food web—from worms to nematodes, to bacteria, fungi and so much more. The soil food web is the foundation that…
What are Purple Tree Collards and How to Get Started [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:12
Purple tree collards are an amazing perennial vegetable. They taste great and a single plant can provide an abundance of harvests all year round. Tree collards can easily replace other collard greens and kale in your mea…
7 Strategies to Deal with Drought Today and in the Future [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:52
How do you deal with drought? Often people just resort to watering more—but this can worsen the impact of the drought on the environment around them. But what do you do to avoid this?In this episode, we look at 7 strateg…
How to Control Garden Pests with Predators [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:33
Are you having issues with garden pests? The best way to deal with them is with predators. From slugs to aphids to even small rodents you can attract the predators of these common pests to keep them in balance.In this ep…
Why You Should Plant a Hedgerow (Plus 7 Tips to Get Started) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:41
Why should you plant a hedgerow? Hedgerows provide so many benefits—from privacy to habitat for wildlife and even food for you, your family, and your community. In this episode, we look at the benefits Hedgerows bring to…
Here’s How You Can Attract Birds [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:15
Do you want to attract birds to your property? Birds need 3 things to be happy – food, cover, and water. But a feeder isn’t enough to provide them the food they need.In this episode, we look at how planting native plants…
Dealing with Compacted Soil without Digging [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:47
Dealing with compacted soil? Instead of digging a better way is to work with nature. With some simple steps, you can save your back and work with nature to break up compacted soil.In this episode, we cover simple steps y…