Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! This podcast is the recorded playback of the live show; today we had no guest and open the phone lines wide. It being a fine spring like clear day in the bay area, it was not at all surprising that there were lots of calls from gardeners! Musical interludes have been trimmed from the original presentation to conform with guidelines for podcasting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 21, 2024•44 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On The Air! The first half our show this morning featured a guest; Sarah Blunt is with Integrated Community Services, and she uses the gardens at New Beginnings to engage with people with disabilities. This also helps the gardens with volunteer labor, creating a natural symbiosis; job training, work experience and mentoring for trainees, and supporting productive gardens for the programs to use. Following the guest, callers from around the Bay phoned in...
Apr 14, 2024•44 min
It's the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guests this morning are Douglas Airhart from Tennessee Technological University and April Ellis, Registered Horticultural Therapist in San Mateo. Our subject? Horticultural Therapy, which is a wide descriptor for plant related therapies ranging from physical through emotional and back again. Our guests spent the entire hour with Edie. Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast because of applicable rules. See omnystudio.com/liste...
Apr 07, 2024•43 min
Welcome to the podcast edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; todays' guest is Sherry Larsen, longtime producer of the San Francisco Bay Flower and Garden Show . Back in the days when that show originated from the Cow Palace, KSFO would broadcast live for this program; nowadays the show is at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton; the 2024 show is April 4 through 7 and is already being set up, as Sherry described. This podcast is a faithful reproduction of the original live s...
Mar 31, 2024•44 min
Open Phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we took calls from around the bay and beyond, all about gardening the old fashioned way: organically. Next week we'll be broadcasting live on Easter Sunday! Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast for compliance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 24, 2024•44 min
And a Happy St. Patty's day from all of us at KSFO, as we present this mornings' Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem. Our guest is none other than Ed Laivo, famed author and videographer on Youtube, fruit tree and edible landscape expert, and all around nice guy. Ed -- who has known the Tanems for many decades -- attracted lots of calls, as we round out the hour. (On YouTube, Ed is known as Ed Able Solutions ) Musical interludes have been redacted from this podcast out of legal necessit...
Mar 17, 2024•44 min
Happy Daylight Saving Time from the cast and crew at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we're right on time and talking about gardening this morning! People call in from around the bay and beyond to talk about vegetables, flowers, trees and lawns, wildlife and compost, among other things. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remove musical and advertising content. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 10, 2024•48 min
Our guest this morning is Suzanne Bontempo, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) advocate, environmental educator & professional horticulturist. She joins us to talk about managing pests with minimal use of pesticides; be they bugs or rodents or what have you. There are alternatives that are organic compatible and better for our bodies and the world around us. Suzanne's website is plantharmony.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 03, 2024•45 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is live and on the air Sundays at 9:00 local time here in San Francisco; this podcast is a faithful repeat of the entire hour, minus the commercials and music! Todays' show is a call-in program; gardeners from around the bay called up and asked questions of our Master Gardener, live and unrehearsed here on KSFO. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 25, 2024•44 min
Our guests on the show this morning are Ken Litchfield and Enrique Sanchez, both members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco - at MSSF.org - and are experts on mushrooms; wild, cultivated, food or poison. We host a 3-way conversation between these gentlemen and our host, Edie Tanem. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remove musical content. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 18, 2024•44 min
Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society, here to tell us about the upcoming Pacific Orchid Exposition Show and Plant Sale . The event will be held in San Francisco at the County Fair Building at 1199 9th Avenue in San Francisco; a gala preview night for those 21 or older will happen on Thursday February 15 from 6 until 9 pm; the show then opens to the public on Friday the 16th at 10:00 am, closing at 5 pm on Fr...
Feb 11, 2024•45 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air once again; it's a live show on Sunday mornings rain or shine and in this case, rain; it's about the biggest storm of the season in progress as we broadcast. Calls do trickle in from around the bay and beyond; we take all kinds of gardening questions all hour long. The original broadcast is lightly edited for podcasting; musical interludes are edited out per requirements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 04, 2024•43 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On the Air! No guest this week, we feature listener calls all hour on the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening. This podcast presentation of the live broadcast has been edited to lift out musical content; them's the rules. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 28, 2024•44 min
Edie Tanem is live on the air this morning with Bob Tanem In The Garden; the Bay Areas' premiere live radio talk show about gardening. We had open phones for gardeners of all stripes this morning and the lines loaded up! The program has been lightly edited to remove musical content in order to satisfy podcasting license restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 21, 2024•44 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air for January 14 2024; this is an open phones gardening show segment; Edie answers listener questions from around the bay and beyond! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 21, 2024•45 min
Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! Edie's guest today is Douglas W Tallamy, entomologist at the University of Delaware and author of Nature's Best Hope. This podcast presentation of the show has been edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 21, 2024•51 min
It's the last day of the year, and the last show in 2023 for Edie Tanem! We took calls and listened to Edie's monologues this morning; it's all about Gardening here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area -- and beyond. This podcast edition of the show has been lightly edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 31, 2023•45 min
Happy Christmas Eve from the Cast and Crew here at KSFO and the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem show! Todays' live broadcast is featured here as a time shifted podcast, minus the musical segments per the rules. It was open phones and we got a lot of calls about winter gardening here in the Bay Area and beyond! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 24, 2023•43 min
Edie Tanem hosts the Bob Tanem In The Garden show; we took calls about gardening, and had an expert guest join us at the half way mark; Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago joined us by phone from Puerto Rico at 9:30. Perla is the author of a current gardening book called Verdura: Living a Garden Life . She discussed many aspects of what this means, in a down to earth interview on this mornings' show. This broadcast has been lightly edited for podcast; musical segments have been redacted. See omnystudio...
Dec 17, 2023•43 min
Edie Tanem is our show host here on KSFO's Bob Tanem In The Garden show, and today is open phones! We started getting calls about 20 minutes into Edie's monologue. Lots of gardening info, including some gift suggestions for the gardener in your life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 10, 2023•46 min
Welcome to our little garden program! Today Edie Tanem featured a special guest; Hadley Dynak is the latest steward of Western Hills Garden in Sebastopol. Now running the operation as a non-profit, the current iteration of this historic site is a treasure trove of exotic and native trees, among other things. Haley filled us in on the history of and current aspirations for this special site. This podcast edition of our show has been lightly edited to remove musical interludes for license complian...
Dec 03, 2023•45 min
Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, and our guests this morning were Marion Weinreb and Alephia Larson of The Living Room of Santa Rosa ; a women's shelter and community resource serving Sonoma County. Among the innovative programs there are food producing gardens that both employ and feed members of the community. Our guests stayed for 30 minutes, and the 2nd half of todays' show was dedicated to callers around the Bay and beyond, with their gardening questions. Edie also extende...
Nov 26, 2023•43 min
Edie Tanem is your show host on Bob Tanem In The Garden, memorializing her father as part of the show name. Our show was live on KSFO, this podcast edition has been lightly pruned to remove musical content per our licensing. It was a call-in show this morning, with people around the Bay Area and beyond calling about their various plants, planting and pruning questions, which were answered cheerfully by our expert gardener turned show host, youngest daughter of Bob Tanem, Ms. Edie Tanem! See omny...
Nov 19, 2023•45 min
There's no need to fear, Edie Tanem's here; host of Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO. It's an all-calls show today (no guest speaker) so we invited folks to phone in and they did; from all around the Bay Area and beyond, Edie answers gardening questions and talks more about her experience getting started with Straw Bale Gardening! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 05, 2023•44 min
Edie Tanem is the host and today Joel Karsten is our guest; he's the StrawBale Garden guy and he's just got the latest edition of his book -- Straw Bale Gardens Complete -- out in time for the closing up of the pumpkin patches this coming week! Joel's technique is not just using straw bales as planters, but actually starting and controlling a decomposition process that substitutes for soil entirely, right within the bale. We kept our energetic and enthusiastic guest all hour long, explaining how...
Oct 29, 2023•45 min
Happy fall; Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden and we took calls all hour long. People call from near and far with a variety of challenges and queries for Edie and for the audience! Interactive talk radio and it's all about organic gardening. Musical interludes have been lifted from this podcast presentation of this mornings' live show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 22, 2023•44 min
Happy October; cooler weather is here and Edie Tanem is on the Air with the Bob Tanem In The Garden show on KSFO! We took calls all hour from gardeners around the Bay Area and beyond. This podcast is the full hour, minus musical segments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 15, 2023•44 min
Our guest this morning is Jeannie Perales, executive director of the Sonoma Botanical Garden in the Sonoma / Glen Ellen area of the Valley of the Moon, in the heart of NorCal wine country. Jeannie spoke to us about current projects and presentations at the garden, which she views in much the same way a museum director would preside over a collection: in this case, the collection is plants, including a historical asian "forest" grown from mostly wild found seed by the founders of the garden; this...
Oct 08, 2023•44 min
Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers' Almanac -- specifically, the orange and green one, not the "old" one; both contain good info but the Tanems have long sworn by this "original" one. Peter spent the hour with us discussing the weather, 2024, and more -- but no politics, and no election predictions thank you very much. The podcast edition of the show has been edited to remove musical segments due to licensing restrictions. See omnystudio.c...
Oct 01, 2023•43 min
Here she is; Edie Tanem -- host of Bob Tanem In The Garden these days -- and the show starts off with a wide ranging monologue from Edie before the gardening questions start rolling in on the KSFO live lines! This podcast reflects the live radio show in full, except for the fact that musical interludes have been redacted. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 24, 2023•44 min
