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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 5d

As you may have heard in this week's episode, Wait Like a Seed by our co-host Erin Alladin has been nominated for a people's choice Horti Award for best gardening book! Want to support a picture book about monarchs & milkweed? Cast your vote here: vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #gardensky

A graphic promoting the nomination of the picture book Wait Like a Seed by Erin Alladin and Tara Anderson to the Garden Communicators International People's Choice Horti Award. The cover image of the picture book shows a little girl in a blue dress with blonde pigtails blowing seeds from a milkweed pod against a yellow sky.

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 6d

Jess revolutionized composting, food education, and community-building in her city with Wilkes-Barre Area Community Gardens—and in this interview, she tells us exactly how she did it so the rest of us can follow her lead. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 6d

If you are feeling frustrated and anxious and helpless about the need for stronger communities...if you have ever craved a community garden but didn't think you could make it happen...if you simply want to lift your spirits with a good-news gardening story, this is episode is for you. #gardensky

The thumbnail image for Plants Always Win podcast episode 36, Community Gardens with Jessica Letteer, shows a fair-skinned woman with long, brown hair in a car, smiling at the camera.

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 12d

Biologist Dr. Dana Green wanted to bring her work home with her and play a bat character in #D&D. Luckily, someone else had created a homebrew bat species. Isn't her character cute? Listen to Dana's interview here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #bats #gardensky #dungeonsanddragons

A pencil sketch of a bat character lounging on their side, singing, with one wing upraised. They have pierced ears and are wearing boots and holding a lyre.

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Erin Alladin @erinalladin.bsky.social · 15d

I'm up for a Horti Award! If you'd like to support Wait Like a Seed as a People's Choice gardening book of 2025, cast your vote at vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #GardenCommUnity #HortiAwards @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @pajamapress.bsky.social

The cover image of the picture book Wait Like a Seed, written by Erin Alladin and illustrated by Tara Anderson, shows a blonde, little girl in a blue dress blowing milkweed seeds against a yellow autumn sky.

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

There are more #batfacts to be had in this week's part II of the interview! Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

There is a bat species with males that lactate. Oh, you wanted to know more than that? Sorry, Dana didn't elaborate. We'll have to get her back on the show. Send in your questions for next time! #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

Bats DON'T eat a thousand mosquitoes an hour 😢 But they do eat them, and they gobble up PLENTY of garden pests 😁 #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

As of summer 2025, there were 1,498 species of bat. How many will there be next year? Depends how many taxonomists get their hands on the list, probably. #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

Hank Green was right. We DON'T know where some bats go in winter. Do you know how hard it is to track bats with solar-powered tags? #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

A group of bats is called a swarm. Not the most exciting collective noun ever, but you can't say it isn't suitable. #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

You can thank the pollinating services of fruit bats for bananas, dates, chocolate, and tequila. Go ahead, thank them. They're waiting, being all adorable and covered in pollen. #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

The world's smallest bat is the bumblebee bat. It's also the lightest mammal, but the jury is out on whether it's the smallest mammal. It depends how you measure it, and you know scientists are going to have clashing opinions on how you measure something. #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

Vampire bats have friends. They are very social creatures, and studies have shown that they have friends. You have permission to say "Awwww" now. #batfacts

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 15d

The following is a thread of bat facts pulled from our two-part interview with Dr. Dana Green, a.k.a. The Eyepatch Biologist. It is by no means complete. If you love cute sky puppies and ugly echolocating microchiroptera, these episodes are for you. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

The thumbnail image for Episode 34 of the Plants Always Win podcast, Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green, shows a young white woman with red braids and a leather eyepatch hanging from a conifer tree in a harness and wearing safety goggles and a helmet. She is sticking her tongue out cheerfully and giving a "rock on" gesture.

The thumbnail image for Episode 35 of the Plants Always Win podcast, Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green, shows a young white woman with red hair and a leather eyepatch wearing a brown wide-brimmed hat.

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 22d

This week we're in a flap about bats! Do they really eat a thousand mosquitoes an hour? Was Hank Green's viral video about scientists not knowing where they go in winter correct? Dr. Dana Green, The Eye patch Biologist, answers all that and more. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

A thumbnail image for Plants Always Win podcast episode 34, Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green Part 1, shows a young white woman with red braids, safety goggles, a leather eyepatch, and black gloves. She is wearing a helmet and harness as she climbs a tall conifer tree, and she is cheerfully sticking out her tongue and giving a "rock on" hand gesture.

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 22d

Our favourite thing to do on Plants Always Win is answer listener gardening questions. In Episode 33 we have a bushel of apple tree questions (grafts? root flares? root stocks?); we also cover horsetail and bindweed management and how to fertilize flowers 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

A thumbnail image for Plants Always Win podcast episode 33, Q&A special, shows three speech bubbles over a background of flowers. They read, "Establishing Apples?" "Eradicating Horsetail?" "Fertilizing Flowers?" #gardensky

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · 29d

You have garden questions and we have answers! Our listeners asked about planting fruit trees, about managing horsetail and bindweed, and about fertilizing flowers without discouraging blooms. We cover all that and more in this week's Q&A special #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

Thumbnail for Plants Always Win podcast episode 33, Q&A special: Establishing Apples? Eradicating Horsetail? Fertilizing Flowers?

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Sep 8

What are the top myths you hear about compost? Delaina Arnold helps us bust some of them in this week's episode: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

Quote from Plants Always Win podcast episode 32, Home Composting with Delaina Arnold: "Home composting does not automatically mean that you're going to attract wildlife."

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Sep 5

There are so many good reasons to compost at home! You're building your own soil (with no transportation costs, fuel requirements, or risk of herbicide contamination). You're putting carbon in the ground. And you're NOT putting methane in the air. Learn more: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

A quote from Plants Always Win podcast episode 32, Home Composting with Delaina Arnold: "In one year, the organic waste from four people in a landfill will release more greenhouse gases than a car could." #gardensky

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Sep 3

Everything you ever wanted to know about home composting! (And if the interview doesn't deliver on that promise, send us your questions and we'll answer them in a future episode ☝️). www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱 #compost #soilbuilding

A quote from Plants Always Win Podcast episode 32, Home Composting with Delaina Arnold: "Compost is the original fertilizer."

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Sep 2

Do you make your own compost? Do you delight in the experience? If your answer to either question is no, this week's guest is here to help. Listen to Ep. 32: Home Composting with Delaina Arnold of the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere #gardensky #compost 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

In the thumbnail image for Plants Always Win Podcast episode 32: Home Composting with Delaina Arnold, a young white woman smiles with one arm resting on a black plastic compost bin.

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Sep 1

Is your garden FUN? Does it being you delight? After our interview with @chrispaulrainbows.com we are delighted to share some of their whimsical garden spaces, including a raised bed decorated as Mr. Dressup's Tickle Trunk. Hear the story here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱

In a colourful yard full of garden art, one raised bed has been painted to resemble the Tickle Trunk from the children's TV show Mr. Dressup. It is bright red with large flowers and a yellow clasp painted onto it.

A long, low raised bed full of perennial plants with interesting leaves also contains lots of garden art: pink and blue flamingoes, metal flowers, and a yellow mushroom.

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Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Aug 27

“I am very enthusiastic about [gardening]. I don't know if I'm that great at it....I can't really answer any of your garden questions, but I love getting my hands dirty.” Get some garden joy from Chris Paul Rainbows' interview! #gardensky 🌱
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

The Plants Always Win podcast thumbnail for Episode 31, Joyful Gardening with Chris Paul Rainbows, show Chris smiling against a rainbow background. They have dyed red hair, rainbow glasses, a red bead necklace, and a white shirt printed with fishes over a blue t-shirt.

Plants Always Win Podcast @plantsalwayswin.com · Aug 26

This week we are thrilled to bring you an interview with speaker, storyteller, human ray of sunshine, and exuberant home gardener @chrispaulrainbows.com. If you need a reminder that gardening can be play, tune in on your podcast player of choice. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱

A quote from Plants Always Win Podcast episode 31, Joyful Gardening with Chris Paul Rainbows: "Gardening isn't for experts. It's for everyone."