Not Your Average Garden Club Podcast
Not a wellness show, a club. Stephen Brooks and Seraphina Capranos of Ecoversity and Not Your Average Garden Club host highly curated, weekly expert sessions featuring Indigenous elders, renowned herbalists, and regenerative pioneers. Life-changing and tangible medicine, wisdom and resources.
Episodes
Preserving Your Harvest Simple & Creative Ways to Make Garden Food Last
You nailed the growing part. The counter's covered in more tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries than you know what to do with, and the clock is ticking. Meagan Lloyd, a gardening educator in Charlotte, North Carolina, learned to preserve food from her own family, starting with a jar of strawberry jam she canned with her great-aunt around age 11. She now teaches people how to freeze, dehydrate, p
From Barren Dirt Lot to 40-Tree Food Forest One Family's Living Model
Big change rarely starts with a plan. More often, it starts with one tree pulled out of the ground, and the willingness to see what grows in its place.In this episode, Evan Marks, founder of The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, walks through how a forgotten dirt lot and an old farmhouse became a 28-acre regenerative hub that now welcomes 150,000 visitors a year. He shares how he read the lan
Architects of Abundance: How Indigenous Nations Fed Millions Without Extraction
When Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (tsay-TSAY-heh-STAH-hess) (Cheyenne), and European lineages, tells people she keeps sheep, they ask what the sheep do for her. Her answer stops the conversation cold: they're her relatives. They're her people.Blending her Stanford background in Human Ecology, graduate stud
The Cancer Cell Knows Something We Don't
Cancer isn't just a disease to fight. What if it's the body trying to tell us something? After 17 years studying tumors in the lab, Zach Bush began seeing the same patterns in human health unfolding across ecosystems around the world. In this episode, Zach, a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care, shares how his work on the microbiome, human health, a
Zach Galifianakis on Why Growing Old in a Garden Beats Growing Up in Hollywood
Zach Galifianakis doesn't live in Hollywood. He works there, and he believes there's an important difference.Known for The Hangover, Between Two Ferns, and as an Emmy-winning comedian, actor, and writer, Zach is now exploring a different passion through his Netflix series, This Is A Gardening Show, where he combines humor with gardening, sustainability, and the people preserving the art of
Sixty Harvests Left: The Soil Crisis No One Wants to Admit
Most people think they’re growing plants, but Evan Buckman, a scientist and regenerative systems thinker focused on soil health and food systems, would argue that the real story begins underground. Before anything breaks the surface, a living network beneath the soil is already determining whether your garden will thrive or struggle.In this episode, we explore the soil food web and why soil is not
From 225 Students to Thousands of Acres: What Commitment Over Certainty Actually Looks Like
What if happiness isn’t something you think your way into, but something your body already knows?While lying under the stars on an off-grid permaculture farm in Costa Rica, Alexa Rosenthal felt a quiet, embodied sense of connection, as if the earth itself was meeting her with love. That land had been cared for over 27 years by Stephen Brooks, who built more than a farm. He built a living community
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