The Revolutionary's Garden

Mar 04 2024 50 ep. 28 mins 228

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The Revolutionary’s Garden Podcast is a how-to guide on gardening, sustainable farming, food security, and community organizing from a revolutionary perspective. Every other week we will go over a specific food or crop and lead you through growing, harvesting, and storing it. On off weeks we will be publishing a companion guide that details what you can plant and harvest based on your grow zone. For more information visit our website: www.TheRevGarden.com For bonus content and early access to episodes support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/RevGarden

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Yogurt Mini

Mar 04 2024 20 mins

We're alive! We will have more episodes coming to the feed soon, but in the meantime enjoy this yogurt mini epsiode! While we have previously released an epsiode on dairy preservation, in which we talk about yogurt making. But since then we have made quite alot of yogurt, and felt a small update to the yogurt making process would be helpful.

Garden 102 Alternative Planting

Jul 11 2023 35 mins

Welcome to the sequel to our garden 101 basics series! in this follow up guide, we will cover some of the slightly more involved garden tools, like building of hedges, using livestock in the garden, or employing alternative planting methods. In this first of our Garden 102 series, we will cover some of the more common alterntive planting styles, instead of just plantinf directly i

Dandelion

Jun 05 2023 32 mins

With Spring in full swing, we will finally be covering one of our all time favorite foragable plants, the dandelion! We cover the rich history of this plant as both food, medicine, and even a source of rubber. And of course we have to throw our two cents in on the debate between dandelions status as an invasive vs nonnative vs naturlized plant. We go over where to find this entire

Jam

Apr 25 2023 27 mins

To wrap up this seasons series on food preservation, we are going to finish with the gateway drug to canning. Jam! From jam, to jelly, to fruit butter, even to fruit leather, we cover this simple and tasty food preservation spread and all the ways you can make it. While we do use a simple blueberry jam recipe as an example, we also cover lots of variations, and how to alter it for

Turnip

Mar 28 2023 36 mins

As we transition from winter to spring, we're shifting gears from talking about winter storage crops to fast growing spring crops. And Turnips, miraculously enough, are both! We talk about this Revolutionary's wonder crop, which is fast growing, easy to store, nutritious, and delicious. We cover not only turnips role as a food crop for humans, but also its use as a cover crop and a

Eggs

Mar 13 2023 42 mins

We've gotten a ton of requests in the past few months to do an episode on chickens, especially for eggs. We actually plan on doing an special series on livestock in the coming year, including one episode for chickens for eggs and one episode for chickens for meat. But until then, we figured we could put together an episode on eggs, and not just from chickens, but from ducks and qua

Apples

Feb 27 2023 46 mins

Today we will be tackling our first ever fruit tree on the show, and what better fruit tree to start with than the ubiquitous apple tree. We've expressed our doubts about the utility of apples in the Revolutionary's Garden, but their presence across every american town and prolific nature make them worthwhile to talk about! We talk about the colonial myths of johnny appleseed, var

Food Preservation (Pickling)

Feb 13 2023 36 mins

A long overdue update to our food preservation series, for todays episode we will be covering pickling. And not just pickling cucumbers, but all manner of fruits and veggies from carrots, to onions, to cabbage. On top of covering the primary forms of pickling, vinegar pickling and lacto fermenting pickles, we also cover other lacto fermented dishes like Sauerkraut and Kimchi! If y

Alliance of Native Seedkeepers - Interview with Fix Cain

Feb 06 2023 83 mins

Our first interview of the year, we talk to Fix Cain, co-founder of the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers. Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is an incredible project to reinvigeroate indigneous culture and food ways, primarily by the preservation and revitalization of seedsaving and foodways. This is just a great interview as Fix is a genuinely funny guy, with soem terrific insights. To

Onion

Jan 30 2023 30 mins

Continuing with our usual winter themes, we are going to cover one of the best winter storage vegetables! With a vibrant taste, and the ability to store for months, onions are a great addiiton to any garden. We cover the history, variety selection, and how to grow and store this perfect root cellar crop.