The Garden Shift

Brand new to birding? No problem with Project Feeder Watch. Winter is coming and you can join a community project that will deepen your connection to nature. Andrea Gress, Special Projects Coordinator for Birds Canada tells us all about the birds she loves -Plovers to Evening Gross Beaks, and the birds you can get to know. Brand new to birding? No problem with Project Feeder Watch. Watch a mini habitat in your yard and record your observations. We also discuss The Warblers, an award winning podcast that Andrea hosts. Full of delightful stories from across Canada.
Birds Canada-Project Feeder Watch
Gardening For Birds
The Warblers

Rooted in science and guided by biology Colleen wants you to activate your soil. As a certified Soil Food Web Laboratory Technician she will show you the microbial life in your soil.
She produces hig quality compost , teas and extracts and conducts analyses of garden, forest and agricultural soil samples. Her advice is targeted to your garden. Rewild Soils is a gardeners dream resource.
Rewild Soils

This episode is filled with stories, from Kevin's early life in Quebec working summers in bogs and wetlands propagating blueberries  to fundraising and advocacy work while at the University of Toronto with the Botany Conservation Group. Kevin then spent years working for National Conservation organizations like World Wildlife Fund and Nature Conservancy of Canada. 
Today if you go to Kevin's nursery  be ready to be  awe struck-  mature specimens of magnolias, rhododendrons , azaleas,  paw paws and dogwoods, to name a few, form a storefront forest that demonstrates what he has built in the last 20 years. It's not only about the plants- it's the whole story - a charmed ecosystem where passionate staff will spend time to make the right choices.Kevin tells us to be concerned gardeners, spend time slowing down and really looking at nature, get excited, get motivated and get planting. That's a hopeful message and xactly what we need to hear.
South Coast Gardens
Gardening For Birds

Audrey Martel wants you to find your place in nature. Having worked with The Nature Conservancy of Canada and now as an ecology writer for the well known Laidback Gardener blog she has developed a unique way to communicate science. Her articles are full of charm and joie de vivre. We talk about a restoration project at her local lake in Granby Quebec, making friends with unloved critters, the benefits of messy gardens, growing garlic, and a whole lot more.
The Laidback Gardener
https://jardinierparesseux.com/
Growing Garlic
Pickled Milkweed Pods

Phenology explores the timing of cyclical events in nature. Your garden is part of the natural world. Rebecca Last Guenette is a scientist and Master Gardener. She wants you to know that if you tend your garden and pay close attention to how it works and develops during the seasons that you're a 'phenologist'.
She says , "Scientists today are increasingly turning to phenology to understand how climate change is affecting the natural world. As gardeners, an understanding of phenology can help us plan for continuous blooms, use natural pest control effectively, and contribute to climate research as citizen scientists.
In this episode we talk Victoria Day planting, earwig explosion, newly updated Canadian Hardiness Zones and Artificial Light At Night. It's a fun episode hosting by friend of The Garden Shift Tena van Andel and full of good advice.
Gardening At Last
Canadian Hardiness Zones
Earth At Night