Seasonal Garden Tips + Wild and Specialty Foods

OutdoorsCooking and Preserving
Written By Steven Biggs

Talking about seasonal gardening activities with Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing from Down the Garden Path.

Summer in the Garden

In the first part of the show, we chat with landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, hosts of the Down the Garden Path radio show and podcast.

We talk about:


Foraged

In the second part of the show we talk about unique foods, foraging, and turning your passion into a career with Jack Hamrick from Foraged.

Jack Hamrick from Foraged talks about specialty foods and connecting foragers and specialty producers with consumers.

He tells us about:

  • How a chat with a forager and some Chicken of the Woods mushrooms set him on the path to creating an online marketplace for foraged and specialty foods

  • The journey of building a business

  • Top tips to get started with a food business

  • Unique foods he loves on Foraged

Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing’s new book, Down the Garden Path.

 
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Steven Biggs

Recognized by Garden Making Magazine as one of the "green gang" of Canadians making a difference in horticulture, Steven Biggs is a horticulturist, former college instructor, and award-winning broadcaster and author. His passion is helping home gardeners grow food in creative and attractive ways.


He’s the author of eight gardening books, including the Canadian bestseller No Guff Vegetable Gardening. His articles have appeared in Canada’s Local Gardener, Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Country Guide, Edible Toronto, and other magazines.


Along with over 30 years working in the horticultural sector and a horticultural-science major at the University of Guelph, Steven’s experience includes hands-on projects in his own garden including wicking beds, driveway strawbale gardens, and a rooftop tomato plantation—to the ongoing amusement of neighbours.


When not in the garden, you might catch him recording his award-winning Food Garden Life podcast or canoeing in Algonquin Park.

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