SINCE SPRING 2010, I’ve been taping a 25ish-minute weekly public-radio gardening program with my neighbors down the road in Sharon, Connecticut, at Robin Hood Radio, “the smallest NPR station in the nation.”
The show, called “A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach” (how original!), is available free as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify and most every other podcast app (the clickable icons below can get you to the most popular ones).
The show has won three silver medals from the Garden Writers Association of America (now GardenComm). Apparently I have overseas admirers, too, not just in the U.S. It was named a top podcast by Fionnuala Fallon of “The Irish Times” in January 2020, and a “top-5” garden show by “The Guardian,” alongside some from the BBC. “Margaret Roach is a household name in America, where her long-running, award-winning public-radio podcast A Way to Garden has achieved cult status,” Fallon wrote.
Every week, a fully illustrated companion transcript runs on this website, loaded with links for more information. A sampling of recent shows and popular ones are displayed below, or browse the entire archive at this link.
RECENT PODCASTS
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a garden of delights, with writer ross gay
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getting ready to stash the tender plants, with marianne willburn
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coping with invasive jumping worms, with brad herrick of uw-madison
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high-impact obsessions: using gold and variegated foliage, with ken druse
LISTENER FAVORITES
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shopping for seed-starting grow lights, with leslie halleck
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growing annual poppies, with marilyn barlow
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watering the garden (not the plants), a 101 with daryl beyers
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how conservation starts in your yard: doug tallamy on ‘nature’s best hope’
NATIVE PLANT PODCASTS
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our desert island plants: native spring woodland perennials, with ken druse
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be a discerning shopper for native plants, with uli lorimer
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how effective are nativars? with doug tallamy
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create a pollinator victory garden, with kim eierman
get the show now, or anytime
LISTEN LIVE on the radio in the Litchfield Hills-Berkshires-Hudson Valley area of CT-MA-NY at about 8:30 AM EDT on Mondays on Robin Hood Radio’s stations, or to the replay on Saturday mornings around 8:30, or to the free podcast anytime. Choose a delivery method, for instance perhaps one of these:
