Welcome to Wild Questions
— A Wild Garden Podcast
Most people would LOVE a yard full of flowers that supports all the creatures
—bumblebees, butterflies, birds, toads, fireflies, dragonflies!! But most of us need more help to get started and really make it happen. The plant lists aren’t enough!
Wild Questions is a free weekly Zoom Q&A for ecological gardeners. Bring any native gardening question —native plants, garden prep, seed sowing, garden design, soil, your burning nectar questions, woods edge questions, pollen questions, rewilding your yard generally, bumblebee questions, what combinations look amazing or why any of this matters! You’re under no obligation to show up, just come when you want to.
The Q&As will be recorded for the Wild Questions podcast, so your questions can help other gardeners with the same questions!
How it works: Each Tuesday at 12:30 EST, bring your questions and come to this page and click "Join the Q&A". That's it!
Join Us Tuesdays at 12:30 EST on Zoom
Sessions are recorded for the podcast.
By joining you're consenting to being recorded!
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with your question?
Feel free to send them in ahead of Tuesday’s session.
Your Host
Alicia Houk is an ecological garden designer, gardener and ecological gardening teacher based in Vermont. She has been designing with natives for the last eleven years and teaching ecological gardening for the last four. She has a master’s degree in pollination ecology, and LOVES(!!!) science-based ecological gardening (maybe too much). Learn more about Alicia.
Before moving to Vermont, Alicia lived and gardened in Iowa for 10 years, so her gardening world is rooted in the Midwest and Northeast. Questions from other regions are always welcome, but her knowledge gets thinner (much thinner) the further afield we go! She also is no expert on invasive species removal.
The Backstory
Wild Questions started as a question: would it be helpful if people had a place where they could just show up and ask their questions? A low key, accessible place to get some information… a regular zoom meet up? I mulled it over and eventually wondered, what if we did do that and then those questions and answers could reach gardeners far beyond the zoom… as a podcast?
Thank you so much for helping this idea move ahead. I'm looking forward to meeting you and helping you get the information you need to create the bold, beautiful gardens you've got in mind. There are so many amazing plants, insects, birds — not to mention the fascinating ecology, history, microbiomes! and more that come into play — I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
Want to understand why your native garden matters so much?
Find more about it:
30% for nature by 2030, Declining Monarchs and Milkweed, Declining Bumblebees
