My Raggedy Herbs
Welcome to the My Raggedy Herbs podcast! Join national award winning blogger, Lori Coats as she shares gardening information, and inspiration for homesteading, herbalism and family life from the My Raggedy Herbs teaching garden. Lori has been a Master Gardener for many years and helped to establish the Oklahoma Agritourism program. She and her family owned the historic Erick Honey farm in western Oklahoma, and she has a long history of food preservation. You’ll hear audio versions of her blogs, interviews and recordings from workshops and classes. Hopefully, these ramblings will encourage and challenge you to make God, your family and your home your first priority.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Grow Your Own French Fries
I actually saw the sun peek out a little today. It was great! It was a warm reminder that gardening season is upon us, and it’s time to finalize our seed purchasing and make sure that we’re on track …
00:05:04 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
6 Tips to Affordable Gardening
Each time that I hear people make this statement I smile just a little: “I want to garden because growing my own food would be so much cheaper.” That can be a true statement, but in many cases you co…
00:05:53 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Dirty Chickens
I love chickens! As a child growing up, my family didn’t raise them, so I was never exposed to them. However, in 1998, my husband and I decided to raise a few and as they say, the rest is history. To…
00:05:46 |
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Instant Pot Pumpkins and Promises
One of the best things about fall is the heaping piles of fresh squash and pumpkins. In my younger days when I was a new wife and homemaker I wasn’t exactly sure how to cook either so I would turn to…
00:05:31 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Open Your Farm Gates
Fall is such a beautiful time of the year. Vibrant colors are everywhere and pumpkins abound! For those of us who have the privilege of living in a rural setting, it’s like God paints a masterpiece e…
00:05:54 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
Hoe Lot of Help
As anyone who works in a garden knows, it is very difficult to keep things well maintained without some good tools. When you’re facing a big job, you want and need good tools. There are so many optio…
00:05:54 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
Preparing a Home
Fall is a great time to enjoy making garden projects that are on your wish list. Both functional and whimsical projects have their place, and making them can be fun family activities. It’s difficult …
00:05:31 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Reminiscent Rose Petal Jelly
Flowers are a special gift that God has given us. In Luke 12:27 we read, “ Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed hi…
00:05:58 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
There’s Protection in the Shade
One of the challenges in edible gardening is dealing with shade. Finding just the right spot for your garden can be difficult. On the back of many seed packets there’s information that will tell you …
00:06:12 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Seeds Tell Stories
Have you ever known a really good storyteller? If so, you’ll never forget them! They speak words in a way that bring color into all of the black, white and gray images in our heads. Stories themselve…
00:05:54 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Cilantro Success
Several years ago, when I was working for the Department of Agriculture, I was visiting with the owner of a nursery who had a large greenhouse and grew plants to sell to the public. I asked him why h…
00:05:34 |
Fri 21 Aug 2020
Vine Ripened but not Always on the Vine
It’s hard to explain how perfect something is when it’s ripe—not only in flavor but also in medicinal and nutritional value. Of these three elements we tend to focus the most on flavor and fail to co…
00:06:18 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Create Your Own Morning Garden
Summer mornings are a special time in the garden. I like to get out there a little before the sun is completely up and walk around before it gets too hot. Plants look different when they are not as h…
00:05:59 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
Changing the Shape of Grapes
Grapes are one of the most fun things to grow in a home garden. On a small scale, they are relatively easy to grow and maintain, and they produce fruit that is pleasing to people of all ages. I know …
00:05:49 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
3 Biblical Principles Found in Gardening
Keep good company People often ask me if companion planting is a real thing and does it work. My answer to that is yes and yes. The idea of companion planting is to strategically locate your crops fo…
Mon 27 Jul 2020
Distinct and Unmistakable
Few garden pests are hated as much as the common tomato hornworm! These green-in-color caterpillars eventually turn into what is known as a hawk moth or sphinx moth and have white v-shaped markings …
00:06:03 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Beauty of a Well-Watered Garden
In most regions, vegetable gardening is cyclical and revolves around the changing of the seasons. The most common gardening season that people think of is the warm weather, summer garden. From this g…
00:05:56 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Plant More than Just Vegetable Seeds
In gardening, trial and error is to be expected. Each year, I try to plant a couple of new things just to see how they grow, what affects them and to taste their deliciousness. I’ve been gardening m…
00:06:07 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Thrive Instead of Survive
As a horticultural and agricultural consultant, I field a variety of questions, and it’s fair to say that many of them I don’t know how to answer. If you have spent any time at all working in your ya…
00:05:40 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Eat the Blackberry in June!
One of the things that I love most about gardening is getting to eat and drink through the seasons. I can almost hear you saying right now, “There is nothing like a homegrown tomato!” If you compare…
00:06:09 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
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