Bob Tanem In The Garden, April 21 2024, 9:00 am

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  This podcast is the recorded playback of the live show; today we had no guest and open the phone lines wide.  It being a fine spring like clear day in the bay area, it was not at all surprising that there were lots of calls from gardeners! Mu…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, April 14 2024, 9:00 am

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On The Air!  The first half our show this morning featured a guest; Sarah Blunt is with Integrated Community Services, and she uses the gardens at New Beginnings to engage with people with disabilities.  This also helps the gardens with volunteer labor, cr…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, April 7 2024, 9:00 am

It's the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guests this morning are Douglas Airhart from Tennessee Technological University and April Ellis, Registered Horticultural Therapist in San Mateo.   Our subject?  Horticultural Therapy, which is a wide descriptor for plant related therapies rangi…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, March 31 2024, 9:00 am

Welcome to the podcast edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; todays' guest is Sherry Larsen, longtime producer of the San Francisco Bay Flower and Garden Show.  Back in the days when that show originated from the Cow Palace, KSFO would broadcast live for this program; nowadays the sho…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, March 24 2024, 9:00 am

Open Phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we took calls from around the bay and beyond, all about gardening the old fashioned way: organically.  Next week we'll be broadcasting live on Easter Sunday!   Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast for compliance.

Bob Tanem In The Garden, March 17 2024, 9:00 am

And a Happy St. Patty's day from all of us at KSFO, as we present this mornings' Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem.  Our guest is none other than Ed Laivo, famed author and videographer on Youtube, fruit tree and edible landscape expert, and all around nice guy.  Ed -- who has known the …

Bob Tanem In The Garden, March 10 2024, 9:00 am

Happy Daylight Saving Time from the cast and crew at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we're right on time and talking about gardening this morning!  People call in from around the bay and beyond to talk about vegetables, flowers, trees and lawns, wildlife and compost, among other things. T…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, March 3 2024, 9:00 am

Our guest this morning is Suzanne Bontempo, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) advocate, environmental educator & professional horticulturist.  She joins us to talk about managing pests with minimal use of pesticides; be they bugs or rodents or what have you.  There are alternatives that are organ…

Bob Tanem In The Garden, February 25 2024, 9:00 am

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is live and on the air Sundays at 9:00 local time here in San Francisco; this podcast is a faithful repeat of the entire hour, minus the commercials and music! Todays' show is a call-in program; gardeners from around the bay called up and asked questions of …

Bob Tanem In The Garden, February 18 2024, 9:00 am

Our guests on the show this morning are Ken Litchfield and Enrique Sanchez, both members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco -  at MSSF.org - and are experts on mushrooms; wild, cultivated, food or poison.  We host a 3-way conversation between these gentlemen and our host, Edie Tanem. The …