Harry Holding joins me on this episode of "Digging in the Dirt". Harry is a British garden designer and author known for championing edible landscapes that are both beautiful and practical. His debut book, Eat Your Garden, explores “Edimentals” which are plants that are both ornamental and edible. Harry says this is a low-effort way to grow food.

My guest is Rob Hopkins. Rob is a British writer and permaculture advocate best known as the co-founder of Transition Network and the author of The Transition Handbook. He has helped inspire community-led sustainability efforts around the world through his work on resilience, local economies, and practical climate solutions. His latest book is How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveler's Guide to Changing the World.

Harry Holding joins me on "Digging in the Dirt". Harry is a British garden designer and author known for championing edible landscapes that are both beautiful and practical. His debut book, Eat Your Garden, explores “edimentals” which are plants that are both ornamental and edible. Which Harry says is a low-effort way to grow food.

Secondly, I talk to the kids at my grandsons school garden club. Where Mrs. Page Chambers teaches her young students about growing vegetables.

Then a Digging in the Dirt regular contributor Gloria Frazee drops in to tell us what's going on at one of my favorite groups. Rewild Long Island

First up; A visit to my grandsons school garden club. Where Mrs. Page Chambers teaches her young students about growing vegetables.

Then I talk to my guest Rob Hopkins. Rob is a British writer and permaculture advocate best known as the co-founder of Transition Network and the author of The Transition Handbok. He has helped inspire community-led sustainability efforts around the world through his work on resilience, local economies, and practical climate solutions. His latest book is How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveler's Guide to Changing the World.

Lastly, but not least. I rebroadcast a speech given "down under" by Natalie Kyriacou of "My Green World". Natalie completely won me over with this extraordinary speech.

It's my pleasure to welcome my next guest Amory B. Lovins Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, of the Rocky Mountain Institute,

Adjunct Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Senior Precourt Scholar of Integrative Design and Energy Efficiency, Precourt Institute for Energy, and the Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, RMI has the goal of Transforming the global energy system, to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

Then Craig Repasz Director and Co-founder of Lights Out CT joins me.

Lights Out Connecticut is a special project of Menunkatuck Audubon Society. He is past president of the New Haven Bird Club. Lights Out CT works across Connecticut to educate the public on light pollution and its impact on human health and wildlife.

Joining me now is Dave Chapman who started Long Wind Farm in Vermont and is a Co-Director of the Real Organic Project and "host of the award-winning Real Organic Podcast". He is a founding member of the Vermont Organic Farmers. He's here today because I received an email from the Real Organic project, which I found quite disturbing. I wanted to talk to Dave about why Iowa has the second highest cancer rate in the U.S.

My second guest is Jacqueline Maisonpierre who owns and runs Two Meadow flower farm in North Haven, Connecticut. Jacqueline joins me to talk about her cut flowers business. Mostly about wonderful Dahlias.

My guest David Ansel, VP of Save the Sound Center for Water Protection and their policy lead in New York State. David has been active this legislative session in CT and NY. focusing primarily on three budget-related items, clean water infrastructure spending, opposing NY Governor’s Hochul's proposed rollbacks of both New York’s Climate Law and the state’s 50-year-old State Environmental Quality Review Act that serves as a Sunshine Law for proposed development projects, ensuring that the public is informed and allowed to participate in the process.

Peter Linderoth, Director of healthy waters and lands for Save the Sound.

First of all In my opinion, we're very lucky to have Save The Sound on the beat protecting our wonderful Long Island sound.

in case you're not aware of Save The Sound, they lead environmental action in our region. They fight climate change, save endangered lands, protect the Sound and its rivers, and work with nature to restore ecosystems…. part of that is monitoring water quality in our area.

So to that end Peter is here today to talk about Save The Sounds most recent Beach Grades for water quality at more than 200 public and private beaches based on data collected during the 2025 swimming season.

Next up is my guest David Ansel, VP of Save the Sound Center for Water Protection and their policy lead in New York State. David has been active this legislative session in CT and NY. focusing primarily on three budget-related items, clean water infrastructure spending, opposing NY Governor’s Hochul's proposed rollbacks of both New York’s Climate Law and the state’s 50-year-old State Environmental Quality Review Act that serves as a Sunshine Law for proposed development projects, ensuring that the public is informed and allowed to participate in the process.