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!

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.

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 reinvigorate indigenous 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 some 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

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.

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.

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.

To celebrate the solstice, We'll be releasing this Patron only special bonus episode. 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!

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.

Please enjoy this public release of a bonus episode from our Patreon!

Wanted to share with you all this interview I did with The Mind of a Skeptical Leftist youtube channel. We talk about the Rev Garden project in general, as well other topics like organizing in rural areas, food security, and dunking on patriotic socialists. I'm including a link below if you want to see the video version of this interview as well as a link to his channel, where he has tons of interviews. Please show his project some love and doll out plenty of likes and comments.

 

Interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3LGvHYORoU

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMindofaSkepticalLeftist

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

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!

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 different 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 receive early episode access, bonus content, and a direct line to the Rev Garden team. https://www.patreon.com/RevGarden

This week, we are shifting gears to begin covering some of our favorite warm weather crops. While ubiquitous in the country garden, in this episode we cover the ins and ous of summer squash. Everything from their history, to their relationship to winter squash, and of course how to grow, harvest, and prepare them. Please enjoy the episode, and we hope you find some friendly neighbors to give all your extra zucchini to!

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 environmental factors that will influence your garden. Everything from individual plant requirements, to strategies for harnessing these environmental factors. Plus, more than any other episode, 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.

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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.

This is the second 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 soil and compost. We do our best to tackle a subject as massive as soil, covering minerals, soil flora and fauna, and the key nutrients NPK. We cover how to test these elements of your soil, as well as how to ammend to imporve them. And to wrap up we cover some basics of composting to help your soil even more!

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!

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.

In this episode we cover the lesser known, native and perennial root vegetable, sunchoke! We cover how this delicious tuber is ideal for some lazy gardening, and even its application for guerilla gardening.

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