Roots Watering Hole Podcast Series

This is a very short episode. If you are looking for gardening information, see the show notes for content regarding ideas for September. We are seeking ideas related to cooking, cooking skills, reci…

August offers opportunities to sow seeds for crops that will carry our gardeners into autumn. There will be about 60 days before the first frost date. Check out the video links for crops that will ma…

Here is a short 15-minute episode with reminders about what to pay attention to in our gardens in July. 

July has arrived and gardening season is in full swing. There are approximately 105 days left i…

Tune in for some general observations about June gardening and seasonal shopping. Also, remember to get some Vitamin N—the N stands for nature. Get outside, get moving, and eat real, whole seasonal f…

May 2025 Food Literacy Podcast Notes

 May is here in Chicago with the typical temperature swings. We had temperatures ranging between 80 and 90 degrees for a couple of days last week, and now, as I wr…

Enjoy the April 2025 Food Literacy Podcast!

Of significant importance to successful gardening is the number of hours of sunlight available (see the amount of daily sunlight available via your zip code…

This month's Food Literacy podcast is entirely devoted to gardening. Happy Meteorological Spring, here's to a great gardening season!

It is March and the plant and gardening communities are raring to …

Please listen to this episode of the Roots Watering Hole podcast with Dr. Christy Garrison Harrison of Southern University. We asked Dr. Harrison to respond to a question we asked of respondents to o…

We are signing out of the Food Literacy Podcast for 2024 and anticipate having a wonderful 2025 with episodes and resources devoted to all things food literacy from gardening to cooking to consumer i…

This is a very brief episode of the food literacy podcast so as usual pay attention to the show notes for what we hope is useful information. More importantly, I want to make sure to thank all of the…

Hello, listeners to the October 2024 Food Literacy Podcast. Harvest time is upon us but as strange as it may seem it is also time to think about the 2025 gardening season. Get ready for winter and 20…

Hello Listeners, this is a concise episode devoted to encouraging our listeners to establish a fall vegetable garden Longer episodes will begin in September 2024 where we will discuss myriad food lit…

The Food Literacy podcast resumes after a hiatus. I am better now and returning to the microphone with the July 2024 Food Literacy Podcast. This is probably more accurately described as a shortcast b…

Let's get going on the upcoming garden season for 2024!

Bill of Health  Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions.

 Take a look for yourself and study how your food choices …

 Since discovering the Food Institute website I have spent considerable time reading through the offerings and found the following to share:

 Food Institute Food as Medicine Conundrum 

https://foodinst…

The Roots Watering Hole podcast series is back after some life issues that kept us from publishing except for our food literacy podcast for several months. We return with a compelling interview with …

The Roots Watering Hole Podcast Series returns to full-time regular programming with at least one episode per month in addition to the food literacy podcasts. Listen to the trailer, thank you for lis…

It is the beginning of 2024 and we embark upon a new trip around the sun. This is the first episode of the 2024 food literacy podcast and we will be providing a brief overview of what the upcoming se…