Grow Your Food with Phil Dudman

10/14/20 • 53 min

Looking to boost your gardening skills and increase backyard production? Join Ashley Feraude as he talks with Phil Dudman in this Floriade: Reimagined podcast and benefit from his 25 years’ experience.
Learn about the amazing productivity you can achieve when applying some of the systems Phil has put into practice in his patch. This session will explore top tips for soil fertility, saving time and increasing food production to help you bring your backyard to life to grow more of your own food.
Guest - Phil Dudman
Phil is a horticulturist and garden designer with a passion for organic gardening and teaching others how to grow their own food. He also has a way with words as a gardening writer, presenter on radio and TV and a passionate environmental and organic gardening campaigner.

In the past 20 years, Phil has contributed to many of Australia’s leading gardening magazines, written three books for ABC Books and worked as a TV Presenter on channel nine’s Garden Guru’s. He is currently the Horticultural Editor of ABC’s Gardening Australia magazine and host of ABC Radio’s Good Gardening program.

He hosts monthly Grow Your Food workshops in his backyard patch, in Lismore, Northern NSW, giving participants the opportunity to spend time in a thriving and productive suburban garden and learn from the simple and effective methods Phil has developed in over 25 years of growing his own food.
Host - Ashley Feraude
Ashley Feraude is creative consultant, music producer, interior design series author and podcast host.

Under his creative consultancy Sound Technique, he provides award-winning services ranging from design, content development, event music direction and artist scheduling. He also authors an interior design editorial series called Home Stories on HerCanebrra and hosts the Behind the Bio podcast series.

As the equally award-winning music artist Magnifik, he produces original music filled with electronic soul and performs melodic disco DJ sets at numerous nightspots, events and festivals.

So, is he suffering from split personality disorder and has an obsession over pointy awards? Not really ... all these ventures are united by a common passion for creative communications. Plus, he likes being really busy.

As the equally award-winning music artist Magnifik, he produces original music filled with electronic soul and performs melodic disco DJ sets at numerous nightspots, events and festivals.

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Indoor Plants and How Not To Kill Them

Join us in this Floriade Life Podcast, hosted by ABC Radio Canberra Saturday Breakfast host Adrienne Francis and hear from Horticulturalist, Author of the book ‘Top 50 Indoor Plants and How NOT to Kill Them’ and Yates Consultant Angie Thomas as she talks all things plants – from indoor to edible.
Angie has a wealth of knowledge, tips and advice on what not to do and how to make the best of the space available to you. Angie will talk about the best plants to grow in pots and how to care for them, no matter what your skill level.
Guest - Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas is a horticultural consultant to Yates and is passionate about the health and benefits of gardening, and teaching and inspiring people how to garden. She is also mad about growing food and filling her house with indoor plants. Yates is the number-one bestselling gardening brand in Australia and New Zealand. Angie lives in Sydney, Australia with her family.
Host - Adrienne Francis
Adrienne Francis has worked as a radio, television and digital journalist and presenter for ABC Canberra since 2010. During her more than 17 year career with the ABC she has primarily worked in TV and Radio News. She has presented the ABC’s flagship TV and Radio News bulletins in the ACT and Northern Territory and she also worked as a television current affairs reporter for 7.30 ACT, which was one of Canberra’s most popular TV programs.

Adrienne began her career with ABC Local Radio where she worked across outback northern Australia. She worked as a specialist rural journalist based out of Katherine and Kununurra, before becoming presenter of the Northern Territory Country Hour in Darwin.

She has reported for national television current affairs programs, including Landline and Australia Wide. She has also worked as a reporter for ABC Radio’s national current affairs unit, for the programs ‘AM’, The World Today, ‘PM’, and ‘Saturday AM’.

Adrienne spent her early years between Sydney and Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. She originally studied agricultural science at the University of Sydney before pursuing a media career.

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Welcome to Season Two!

Join us for our second season of the Floriade podcast. This season we discuss "The Future of Flowers".
Hosted by renowned Canberra voice Dan Bourchier, Floriade: The Future of Flowers podcast will feature special guests including Matthew Evans, Jade Miles and more over the next 7 episodes.
Covering a range of topics including traditional indigenous foods, soil health through to backyard bees and 'Futuresteading', this seven part series will be released this Spring from Saturday 18 September 2021.