This is a special one. Tom and Darrin love site visits (think: field trips without the sack lunch) and we go visit a special gem just outside of Durango. But as you will hear, it's not just about the garden; we feel the family, the history, the generational romance of what growing your own food can mean. Who knows, after listening you may feel the Italian sun on your face!

After waxing poetically about the present environmental state of affairs, we get deeper into the multiple layers of growing alliums. That magical, healthy family of plants that support our cooking and immune systems. We go over some details on several plants from the allium group, including bulbing onions, bunching onions, leeks, garlic, chives, and shallots. They all grow well in the four corners, and you should try to grow at least two varieties. Let's go allium!

HOT damn we're back! Ever feel like you are trying to garden while attending Burning Man? Well, that's what it was like trying to grow some veggies here in the SW corner of the state this summer. Hot. Dry. Windy. Grumpy. Those are our adjectives - what are yours? Oh, and we talk about fences - Darrin took his (275 foot) fence down and invited all the town deer to their front yard; Tom had bears climb over his, for the first time in 25 years. All for the love of gardening - oh joy you carrot, oh joy!