{"id":114425,"date":"2023-11-08T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=114425"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:27:01","slug":"growing-good-episode-65-susan-poizner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/growing-good-episode-65-susan-poizner\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 65: Susan Poizner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kentnutritiongroup-20515077.hs-sites.com\/home-fresh-fall-chickens?utm_source=growing_good&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=2023_fall_chickens&amp;utm_content=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/6tZ9ffVI-Kent_AD-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Kent_AD.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114426\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/SP-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby Farms Presents Growing Good Susan Poizner\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/SP-banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/yy8Q6KqJ-SP-banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/SP-banner-190x59.jpg 190w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/SP-banner-288x90.jpg 288w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/SP-banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/28530065\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toronto orchardist Susan Poizner talks fruit-tree care, community orcharding and more with Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good podcast host Lisa Munniksma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear about the evolution of the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard in Toronto, now in its 15th year. Susan admits to knowing less than she should have about fruit-tree care when she undertook the development of a community orchard and shares her journey through an orcharding self-education. Hear, too, about the volunteers coming together to tend the park\u2019s orchard, pollinator garden and other spaces, and how this community orchard has birthed others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan shares her advice for getting started with a fruit tree so you can be set up for success from the start. (Hint: Some cultivars are disease resistant!)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also get to know Susan\u2019s books, Growing Urban Orchards and Grow Fruit Trees Fast, her online orcharding courses, and the monthly Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/orchardpeople.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan\u2019s website, OrchardPeople.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.orchardpeople.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/orchardpeople.com\/shop\/#section-259-35264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Growing Urban Orchards<\/i> and <i>Grow Fruit Trees Fast<\/i> books<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[11047,1429,10943,11788],"class_list":["post-114425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-hobby-farms-presents-growing-good","tag-orcharding","tag-podcast","tag-susan-poizner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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