Recent Volunteer Gardener Clips
Industrial Hemp
April 18, 2019
In 2014, Tennessee established a program of licensing authorized hemp producers. Tammy Algood visits with Bill Corbin, a farmer in Springfield who is growing hemp varieties specifically for CBD oil extraction. We gain insights into why this crop is such a natural and profitable venture.
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Historic Savage Garden
April 11, 2019
Arthur Savage bought a house with 1.7 acres of property in 1917 in what is now Fountain City, TN. He had quite the eye for design, and devoted time and money toward creating a premiere garden. Features include substantial structures, a 280' rock wall, trees, shrubs and flowers. It's heyday was in the late 1920's. With Arthur's death in 1946, this garden fell into disrepair and was neglected. In 1986, an energetic couple bought Savage Garden with the hopes of restoring it back to its former grandeur. It has far exceeded expectations. Annette Shrader leads us on a tour with one of the property's owners, Bill Dohm.
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Indigo: Agriculture Research and Production
April 11, 2019
A goal of Stony Creek Colors is to replace at least 3% of synthetic blue dye with natural indigo produced on Tennessee farms. Currently, TN has the most indigo in research and production than anywhere in the U.S. with all of the biomass coming from within a 60 mile radius of its factory.
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Flower Show of the American Daffodil Society Annual Meeting, 2018
April 04, 2019
We go behind the scenes at the big flower show of the American Daffodil Society annual meeting. From the staging area where flower stems are primped and readied, to the show floor where the judges share their criteria for specimens on exhibit, we see daffodils by the hundreds.
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GROW Enrichment
September 27, 2018
Julie Berbiglia tours a demonstration garden of GROW Enrichment that features several effective permaculture methods for storm water management. A spring pond, several hugelkultur beds and rain gardens, plus a no mow buffer zone slows down, directs, and filters water as it falls from the sky and seeks the lowest level.
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Regenerative agriculture at No 9 Farms
September 20, 2018
Regenerative agriculture is a holistic land management practice that leverages the power of photosynthesis in plants to close the carbon cycle, and build soil health, crop resilience and nutrient density. We tour the herb gardens at No 9 Farms to learn more.
