The Revolutionary's Garden (The Revolutionary's Garden)

In this episode we go over the rather broad category of edible leafy greens! We mostly go over selecting your typical salad greens, but also touch on some foragable species.

We cover some of our favorite greens, and then different ways to grow and ultimately harvest them. We also dedicate special attention to growing greens in a coldframe over the winter, and how to save seeds from your leafy greens!

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. There we offer early access to episodes, bonus content, Q&As and a direct line to our network of farmers to ask for advice.

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We at the Revolutionary's Garden recognize that we are farming occupied land. We pay a portion of the shows income in the form of rent to the Duwamish tribe through the Real Rent program.

https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

If you like our show, we highly recommend you check out The Resistance Garden on their blog, or on any social media platform. They cover alot of food security and alternative food ways, and if you like our show you will definitely like them.

https://www.theresistancegarden.com/

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 entirely edible memebr of the aster family, as well as how to haevest and eat everythting from the root, to the leaves, to the flowrs to the seeds!

This farm update for November 2022 will hopefully become a regular monthly series where we share the progress on our communal farm! 

This first episode covers the basics of the farm itself as well as our recent projects, from making the farmhouse liveable for the winter, to getting goats, to felling trees!

For more information about the Revolutionary's Garden, please visit our website where transcripts of all of our shows are also available. https://www.therevgarden.com/

If you like our show, please remember to leave us a like and a review, and tell your friends! IF you can, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team. https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden

Thank you for tuning into this January farm update! While winter is a sleepy time on the farm, we still have to deal with horny goats, crazy storms ripping roofs away, and more! We also update you on the some of the upcoming interview episodes, a bonus series, and much much more.

We cover the indigenous history of this food way, as well as the modern developments as colonizer began this practice. Then of course we delve into how to identify and tap maple trees to boil down some maple syrup of your own!

As a bonus we also talk a bit about collecting and boiling sap from other kinds of trees!

If you like our show, please tell your friends about us, leave a review, and if you can support us on patreon. We offer our patrons early access to epsiodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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The Revolutionary's Garden is written and produced on occupied Abanaki land. A portion of the shows income are saved to be payed in the form of rent to the Abenaki people.

Today we would like to recommned the incredible book: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

Welcome to the seventh episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this seventh and final installment of our Brassica Week we have the mirror-verse Brassica family, Brassica Rappa.

We cover the distinct vegetable species with its own variation of our well known brassicas, but from the brassica rappa plant. We quickly go over these unique counterparts as well as a few quick tips on growing them.

And finally, we wrap up our Brassica Mini series by talking about Brassicas in general as well as their place in the revolutionary's Garden.

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Today we would like to recommend the incredible orgnanizationCooperation Jackson.

https://cooperationjackson.org/

You can find more info about our show, as well as a transcript of the episode at

https://www.therevgarden.com/

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 diferrent fruits. Enjoy!

If you've followed the Revolutionary's Garden for any amount of time, you'll know we're obsessed with local sugar sources, especially sugar beets. And we've been dying to do an episode about them!

While we briefly cover a range of possible local sugar sources in this episode, we primarily focus on sugar beets. Everything from how and where to grow them, to the harvest and processing of them into sugar syrup, or granulated sugar.

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on patreon! We offer our patrons early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team!

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Our show is produced on occupied Duwamish territory. We pay a portion of our shows proceeds in the form of rent to the Duwamish tribe to support them materially as well as reinforce their rightful claims to this land.

https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

This episode we would like to recommend The Guerilla History Podcast. Hosted by immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea. It is an incredible podcast on both the history and current status of radical movements.

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/

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 as a livestock feed. 

Our first official episode on growing garlic. We cover how to select varieties, how, where, and when to plant, and growth and harvesting practices.

You can learn more about our episode and podcast you can find us at https://Therevgarden.com

If you liked this episode, please consider supporting us on patreon to gain early access to episodes, and bonus content.

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Special shoutout to https://thepoorprolesalamanac.podbean.com/

In this update we go over our recent move to the state of Maine, and the subsequent hunt for farmland here. We also cover our recent facebook censorship, and backup page. And finally we wrap up with the plans for the podcast going into 2022!

A quick update to let you all know that our unexpecred hiatus will be ending soon, and there is more Rev Garden content headed your way!

We’ll breakdown what you should be planting and harvesting for the last two weeks of October based on your grow zone. While this can’t be an exact guide, and what you can plant will be based largely on your specific situation, it can work as a helpful guide.

The biggest take away for most zones is to get on harvesting the last of your crops, processing, and prepping for winter.

Don't forget all of those free post-halloween pumpkins!

Stick around to the end of the episode to get a fun recipe!

We’ll breakdown what you should be planting and harvesting for the last two weeks of October based on your grow zone. While this can’t be an exact guide, and what you can plant will be based largely on your specific situation, it can work as a helpful guide.

Stick around to the end of the episode to get a fun recipe!

Today we cover our absolute favorite vegetables, pumpkin!

We will cover how to select a variety of pumpkin, as well as how, when and where to plant. We will cover common pests and diseases. we also cover harvest of both the pumpkin, the flower, and the vine, as well as how to process them.

If you like what we do, please rate and review our show, tell your friends, and support us on patreon. Patrons get early access to episodes, as well as bonus content.

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Today we are recommending Revolutionary Left Radio, an amazing and insightful podcast covering everything from history, philosophy, politics, and spirituality.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/

We at the Revolutionary's Garden recognize that we are farming occupied Duwamish land. We pay a portion of the shows income as rent to the Duwamish tribe, both to materially support the tribes needs, as well as reinforce their legal and moral claim to stewardship of this land.

We cover the influential history of the potato, following the rise and fall of empires from South America to Europe, and it’s connection to the rise of capitalism.

After a tangent on the Irish potato famine, we dig into selecting potato varieties and how to grow them. We cover everything from different planting methods to how to fight off the various pests that want to eat your spuds.

And finally we wrap up with the harvesting and storage of your taters, and their role as the backbone of a revolutionary’s garden.

If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. We offer early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team!

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The Revolutionary’s Garden recognizes that we are farming occupied Abanaki territory. While we are still doing research and reaching out, we are setting aside a portion of the shows proceeds to pay in the form of rent to the Abanaki people.

Today we would like to recommend the podcast “Revolutions” by Mike Duncan. Each season he does a deep dive into some of the most influential revolutions of history, getting deep into both the events and their implications.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/

In this continuation of our series on herbs, we talk about the champion of italian cuisine, and how it can be even more versatile. From seed selection, to planting, to pruning and harvesting. We of course hit the highlights on how to use basil, like pesto and in tomato sauce. But we also cover less known uses for basil like in Thai dishes, as a tea, or in salads. 

If you like our show, please leave a rating and review, or best of all support us on patreon!

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In this latest episode of The Revolutionary's Garden, We cover arguably one of the most important crops in the world, Corn! Everything from its rich history, to modern controversy. We go over in detail how to select a variety, cultivate it in a variety of methods. and ultimately how to harvest and process it.

As always if you like our show, please recommend us to your friends, leave reviews, and follow us on facebook. If you can, consider supporting us financially on Patreon. Our Patrons receive early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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As always our show is produced on occupied Abanaki land, specifically the land of the Kennebeck nation. We pay a portion of our show proceeds to the Wabanaki alliance in the form of rent. Remember, land acknowledgements are a good first step, and rents are better, but nothing is a substitute for land back and indigenous sovereignty. 

Today we would like to recommend the afro-indigenous farmer Chris Newman and his cooperative farm network Sylvanaqua farms. On top of a lot of great articles trashing colonizer farming, Joel Salatin, and more, Chris Newman shows all of the great work being done by his cooperative farm network and mutual aid projects. While you learn a lot just by following him on social media, if you subscribe to his patreon you get hands on round tables discussing cooperative farm practices and more. 

https://www.patreon.com/skywoman

Welcome to the fourth episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini peiosde covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this fourth installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering one of the trickiest, and tastiest of brassicas... Brussel Sprouts!

We cover the history of this much more recent cultivar on the brassica scene, only 700 years old! With its slow spread from northern europe around the world, and especially the United States. Of course we cover some strategies for growing this finicky vegetable, as well as tips on how to cook it.

If you enjoy our show, please subscribe, leave a review, and if you can support us on Patreon.

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You can find more info about our show, as well as a transcript of the episode at

https://www.therevgarden.com/

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 quail as well. 

We go over the basics for raising any sort of poultry, from their coop, to food to water. We also talk a but about pasturing basics, and whether or not to give poultry an outdoor run, a pasture, a tractor, or just let them free range. We briefly dive into some of the specifics on raising chickens, ducks, and quail, as well as the pros and cons for each. and finally, we wrap up with a but of discussion about eggs, their nutrition, how to use them, and how to preserve them!

We hope this episode will help get you by until our deeper dive into livestock, and helps get you started on the journey to egg laying poultry. 

In this episode we cover the basics for dehydrating fruit, veggies, and herbs! Covering the impossibly long history of dehydration, how it affects nutrition and more. We cover the various ways to dehydrate, from the most rudimentary to scifi devices! And of course we go over some basic dehydration steps, and how to incorporate dehydrated foods into your diet! 

If you like our show, please leave a rating and review, or best of all support us on patreon!

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Welcome to the third episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this third installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the most iconic and important of the brassicas... Cabbage!

We cover the history of this, the most famous of brassicas. From its role in the Roman empire to its spread aorund the globe. We cover some of our favorite cabbage varities, and of course how to grow, harvest, and store them.

If you enjoy our show, please subscribe, leave a review, and if you can support us on Patreon.

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You can find more info about our show, as well as a transcript of the episode at

https://www.therevgarden.com/

In this continuation of our food preservation series, we cover the preservation of milk from cows, sheep, and goats. We focus primarily on preserving milk fats as butter, milk sugars as yogurt, and milk proteins into cheese.

On top of how to make butter and yogurt, we even share basic recipes for cream cheese, ricotta, and gouda!

We also briefly go over alternative ways to preserve dairy such as Kefir, Koumis, freezing, drying, and canning.

If you like our show, please give us a follow, leave a review, and if you can support us on patreon. We offer early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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The Revolutionary's Garden recognizes that we are farming occupied Abanaki land. While we are still doing research and reaching out, we are saving a portion of the shows income to pay to the Abanaki people in the form of rent.

Today we are recommending our first book series as opposed to a podcast. We would like to recommend Storey's Guide books, a series of guides covering every kind of livestock you could raise. They are comprehensive, easy to read, and affordable.

Thank you for listening!

Welcome to the second episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this second installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the under appreciated but incredibly delicious twin to Kale... Collard Greens!

We cover the history of this increible green, from its origins alongside Kale, to its first plantings in the US where it became directly tied to the fate of enslaved africans and their descendents.

We of course cover how to grow this hardy green, and even include some tips to properly cook it!

If you enjoy our show, please subscribe, leave a review, and if you can support us on Patreon.

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You can find more info about our show, as well as a transcript of the episode at

https://www.therevgarden.com/

This underrated root vegetable is loaded with flavor, sugar, and is a robust addition to any garden. 

In this episode we cover common varieties from the All American to the Russian Krull. We go over the complicated question of interplanting parsnip, and dealing with the pests and diseases that want to feast on them. 

Aside from just leaving them in the ground overwinter, we go over how to can, dehydrate, and pulp this tasty root!

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Our patrons get early access to epsiodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden Team. 

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We cover selecting seed tubers, growing, maintaining, and harvesting this incredible crop.

If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! Our patrons get early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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The Revolutionary’s Garden is written and produced on occupied Abanaki territory. The Revolutionary’s Garden is currently saving a portion of our show's income to donate to an Abanaki organization. In Seattle we paid a portion of the show's income in the form of rent to the Duwamish tribe in the form of rent, and we hope to do something similar here in occupied Abanaki territory. It is critical to remember that while land acknowledgments are important, they don’t actually accomplish anything. And while Rents do help, they are no replacement for actual indigenous sovereignty and land back. 

Today we would like to recommend the podcast Propaganda By The Seed. They are another left wing, ecological podcast that focuses primarily on perennial plants, and has some amazing guests.

https://edgewood-nursery.com/podcast

In this full episode comeback, we will be talking about possibly the easiest to start with herb, mint! We dive into some of the basics for growing and cultivating this wildly versatile herb. We also cover some of the many things you can do mint, from jellies, to teas, to salad greens.

If you like our show, please tell your friends about us, leave a review, and if you can support us on patreon. We offer our patrons early access to epsiodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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The Revolutionary's Garden is written and produced on occupied Abanaki land. A portion of the shows income are saved to be payed in the form of rent to the Wabanaki Alliance.

Today we would like to recommned the podcast, Proles Pod! reborn from the ashes of proles of the roundtable, Proles Pod brings back some of the original shots, plus some terrific new ones to bring you a podcast about history, politics, and culture, without the liberalism. They are a very educational and very funny group of people who bring some absolutely critical content.

https://prolespod.libsyn.com/

In this classic root vegetable episode we cover everything you could need to know about the favored root vegetable. after tackling the history and nutrition of this sweet little root, we cover how to select and grow a variety of it. Of course we tackle everything from interplanting, to common pests, to all of the wonderful ways to preserve it.

Full transcript availabel at https://www.therevgarden.com/

If you like the show, please consider supporting as on our Patreon! Patrons get early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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In this fifth installment of our garden 101 series, we cover the common pests, pathogens, and diseases that can afflict your garden. Wile we most thoroughly cover general bio security to prevent diseases, we also cover how to manage a disease outbreak once it occurs. As well as common methods such as fencing, push pull, and bait plants to deter a range of pests.

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons receive early episode access, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden Team.

Our show is produced on occupied Abenaki land, and we pay a portion of the shows proceeds to the Wabanaki Alliance in the form of rent.

Todays Recommendation is The Bio-Integrated Farm, by Shawn Jadrnicek.

As promised we are continuing our series on food preservation! This episode we will be focusing on fermentation, specifically alcohol fermentation of fruits and flowers into country wine.

We go over the history of wine, as well as the different styles of fermenting. On top of talking about our favorite fruits and flowers to brew (from pumpkin to dandelion), we go over special steps you have to take for some.

And finally we take you through step by step on how to brew your very own batch of country wine!

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Revolutionary's Garden team.

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Today we would like to recommend Coffee with comrades, a podcast seducing culture, current events, theory, and action through a radical lense. It’s an inspiring and hugely educational podcast, with more than 150 episodes out at this point. If you want a general leftwing podcast to keep you up to date on a range of subjects, coffee with comrades is a great place to start. 

https://coffeewithcomrades.com/

As always The Revolutionary’s Garden is brought to you from occupied duwamish territory. We pay a portion of the show's proceeds in the form of rent to the duwamish tribe to materially support the tribe as well as reinforce their legal claims to this land. 

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.

In this episode we discuss various methods for extending your growing season, bot earlier into the spring, and later into the fall, and even through the winter. We cover a few different methods such as greenhouses, polytunnels, and even the Soviet citrus trench; but focus especially on cold frames.

We cover cold frame construction, as well as where and how to use them. Not only do we talk about using cold frames to grow fresh greens all winter, but also how to use them to give various other plants an early start in their growing.

If you would like to learn more about us, please visit our website at www.Therevgarden.com

If you like our podcast, please consider supporting us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/RevGarden

Today we would like to recommend Dixieland of The Proletariat Podcast. They're a great podcast on southern working class history, and are a delight to listen to.

https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/dixieprole

This is the first episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden series, Garden 101.In this Garden 101 series, we'll be going over the very basics for gardening, both at home and within a community of growers.

Today's episode will cover seeds and starts. Both how and where to get your seeds, as well as how to get them started. We cover all kinds of great info, like whether to choose soil blocks or seedling trays, how to store seeds, and various soil starting mixes.

Keep an eye out for the next few episodes in this series where we'll cover: Soil and compost, Weeding, Watering, Mulching, Cover cropping, and Harvest!

If you would like to learn more, visit our website at https://www.therevgarden.com/ where we have a full transcript available. 

If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, access to bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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This Episode I just want to introduce you all to the show, and let you know what the Revolutionary's Garden is all about.

First and foremost, I want this show to be an audio toolbox for those concerned about food security, and building the revolutionary potential of themselves, their organizations, and their community. While there are endless fronts for us to be building revolutionary potential and fighting against the injustices of the world.  Food is one of the basic needs of all people, and short and long term we need to be developing better food  systems.

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. 

Given recent political news, We wanted to offer a quick update on the podcast!

New content coming soon comrades!

Love and solidarity 

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, various apple varieites, and some of the diferrences between root stocks, real roots, and dwarf and full sized trees. 

While we can only briefly cover topics like pruning, we spend plenty of time on mulching, interplanting, and pest control for your apple trees. 

And of course, if you like this epsiode, be sure to check out our other episode on apple cider, so you have plenty to do with all your fresh fruit!

Keep an eye out for the next few episodes in this series where we'll cover: Sunlight, Temperature, Weeding, Watering, Mulching, Cover cropping, and Harvest!

If you would like to learn more, visit our website at https://www.therevgarden.com/ where we have a full transcript available. 

If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, access to bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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In this episode of the Revolutionary's Garden, we go over food preservation techniques for your community. we cover 5 general categories of food storage: Freezing, Canning, Drying, Fermenting, and Root Cellaring.

This is meant to be a broad overview of food preservation, and in future episodes we will cover specific food storage techniques in much more detail.

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, bonus contact, and a direct line to the Revolutionary's Garden.

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We recognize that we are operating from occupied Duwamish land. The Revolutionary's Garden pays a portion of the shows income to the Duwamish tribe in the form of rent.

https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

We would like to recommend the podcast, "It Could Happen Here" Hosted by Robert Evans. A jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world, the one we all live in now, and a guide to avoiding the worst pitfalls along the road to a better world. It Could Happen Here season 1 ended with the possibility of a second civil war. It Could Happen Here Daily with Robert Evans, accepts collapse as a given, and tries to provide a roadmap to survival.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

This is the fourth episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden mini series, Garden 101. In this Garden 101 series we'll be going over some of the very basics of gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Todays episode will be covering weeding, mulching, and cover cropping. We'll do our best to cover the diferrent methods and reasons for weeding your garden, we also cover how to reduce weeding and increase overall garden health with the use of mulch and cover crops. We especially deep dive into the various kinds of cover crops and how to go about using them.

Keep an eye out for the next few episodes in the series where we cover common garden pests as well as harvesting!

If you would like to learn more visit our website where we have full episode transcripts available. https://www.therevgarden.com/

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons recieve early episode access, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team. https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden

Welcome to the fifth episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this fifth installment of our Brassica Week we have a two for one special... Broccoli and Cauliflower!

While two distinct cultivars of Brassica, Broccoli and Cauliflower have a similar role both in the garden and the kitchen.

We cover the history of these two flowering brassicas, as well as how to grow and harvest them!

If you enjoy our show, please subscribe, leave a review, and if you can support us on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden

You can find more info about our show, as well as a transcript of the episode at

https://www.therevgarden.com/

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 into the soil. We cover lots of styles both ancient and modern, fom terracing and mound gardens, to raised beds, hugelkulture, and Ruth Stout muclh gardening. We talk about the basics of each method, as well as go over some of their pros and cons! 

Welcome to the final installment (For now) of our Garden 101 series!

In this episode, we cover the proper setup for a good garden and harvest storage system, from harvesting tools, to the wash station, to the kitchen. We cover the general methods of harvest for major vegetable types, and how to get them into storage or your kitchen quickly, cleanly, and efficiently. After all, all of this garden advice does little good if you don't actually get to eat or share what you grow.

For more information, check out our website where you can find a transcript for this episode. And if you can, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

This is the third episode in a new Revolutionary's Garden series, Garden 101. In this Garden 101 series, we'll be going over the very basics for gardening, both at home and within a community of growers. Today's episode will cover: sunlight, temperature, wind, and water. We do our beast to cover all of the many enviorenmental factors that will influence your garden. Everything from individual plant requirements, to strategies for harnessing these environmental factors. Plus, more than any other epiosde, we talk about climate change's effects on these environmental factors, and how we can cope with them.

Keep an eye out for the next few episodes in this series where we'll cover:, Mulching, Cover cropping, and Harvesting!

If you would like to learn more, visit our website at https://www.therevgarden.com/ where we have a full transcript available. 

If you like the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our Patrons get early access to episodes, access to bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

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In this spring crop episode, we cover one of the most important sources of protein for the Revolutionary's Garden, the pea! We go over the different kinds of peas you can grow, whether for yourself, your livestock, or to improve the quality of your soil. We cover every aspect of growing this protein packed veggie, from seeding and and weeding, to watering and harvesting. And of course we include how to freeze, can, or dry them!

If you like our show, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Our patrons recieve early access to espisodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team.

https://www.patreon.com/Revgarden

As always, we recognize that we are famring occupied Abenaki land, and pay a portion of the shows proceeds in the form of rent. land acknowledgements are a good first step, and rents are better. But nothing is a substitute for land back and indigenous sovereignty.

Our recommended media for this epsiode is "The Four season Harvest" by Elliot Coleman.

Happy Winter Solstice y'all! To celebrate, we are releasing this holiday themed, patreon exclusive, bonus episode to our feed!

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 you like the show, please tell your comrades about us, leave a like and review on itunes, and follow us on facebook. If you can afford it, please consider supporting us on patreon. Our patrons get early access to episodes, bonus content, and a direct line to the REv Garden team. Currently we are doing a special bonus series on socialist agriculture, from the coffee coops of Chiappas, to the citrus plantations of the Soviet Union.

As Always our show is produced on Occupied Abankai land, specifically the land of the Kennebec people. We pay a portion of the show's proceeds to the Wabanaki Alliance in the form of rent. Remember, Land Acknowledgements are a good first step, and rents are better, but nothing is a substitute for land back and indigenous sovereignty.

Today we would like to recommend The collective organizations food not bombs. While individual organs within the food not bombs network can be hit or miss sometimes, their overall message of bringing the community together to feed people is a good one. I have disagreed with many folks on food not bombs before, but we’ve always been able to come together and do the important work. IF you;re struggling to find a way to start organizing, reach out to your nearest food not bombs for help, as they can be a good start. 

To celebrate the solstice, We'll be releasing this Patron only special bonus episode, The Apple Tree Man. While tangentially Garden related, this is an old folk tale from Britain, that is dear to my heart, and a perfect tale for the season.

Enjoy, and happy solstice!

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 learn more, or to purchase some of their terrific seeds, make sure to visit the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers at their website and seed store.

https://www.allianceofnativeseedkeepers.com

Welcome to the first episode of our Brassica Week super special. Each day this week we will be publishing a mini episode covering a specific cultivar of our most versatile vegetable species, Brassica Oleracea.

In this first installment of our Brassica Week we will be covering the workhorse of any small farm, the trendy Kale!

We cover this recent superstar's history, from it's origins in the pre-roman mediteranean, to its repeated introductions to the USA. And as always we cover how to grow this hardy Brassica, how to harvest it, and its role in the Revolutionary's Garden.

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The closest we have ever come to a current events episode. In this latest installment of our food preservation series, we cover the ins and outs of pasteurization. From its hsitory, its current political dimensions, and of course, how to do it! 

Please listen to the full epsiode befroe jumping to any conclusions. 

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In this episode we explore the lack of north American spices in our food, why that is and how we can start to correct it. Then on to the good stuff, identify, planting, and growing the Northern Spicebush. This incredible shrub can produce four different spice and foods! From its Chai like leaves, Black pepper like seeds, Allspice like berries, and Cinnamon like bark!

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Today on the Revolutionary's Garden, I'll be discussing our favorite autumnal beverage. Cities are filled with thousands of apple trees whose fallen apples go to waste. So we'll tell you how to get a cider press, gather fallen apples, and press fresh apple cider to share with the whole community. We'll also cover pasteurizing and preserving your cider, including how to ferment it.

As always if you like our show please consider donating to us on Patreon. Listener support will help us make the show even bigger and better!

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We at the Revolutionary's Garden recognize that we are farming occupied Duwamish land. We pay a portion of the shows income as rent to the Duwamish tribe, both to materially support the tribes needs, as well as reinforce their legal and moral claim to stewardship of this land.

If you like the Revolutionary's Garden we recommend you check out CROW, the Coalition of Revolutionaries and Organized Workers. CROW is an incredible BIPOC led org that aims to establish outreach, training, and educational efforts aimed at advancing an anti-colonial agenda, to promote community defense, self-direction, liberation of colonized peoples, critical social analysis, and to resist all efforts for the advancement of fascism.

www.crowlouder.org