Orchard People

Orchard People

Learn how to grow and care for fruit trees with fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com. Discover how to create permaculture plantings, food forests, and forest gardens in both urban and rural settings. Meet experts on all aspects of comprehensive fruit tree care, including pruning, pest and disease prevention, fruit tree grafting and budding, and soil management. Show host Susan Poizner, creator of the fruit tree education website OrchardPeople.com, is an award-winning author of three fruit tree care books and an ISA Certified Arborist. This podcast is the winner of the 2021 GardenComm Silver Award of Achievement for Broadcast Media: Radio Program Overall. Learn more and access archived episodes at https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/. Learn more about Susan's books and courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/books.

Episodes

September 30, 2025 54 mins

How do you know if your soil is truly thriving?
Soil microscopy can give you the answer by actually seeing who's living in your soil.
Learn how to identify who's there, encourage the good guys, and build a living soil that feeds your trees naturally with Matt Powers.

Matt is a bestselling author, an educator, a citizen scientist, and the creator of the website regenerativesoilscience.com.
He’s also a family man who...

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    Learn how to design a fruit tree garden that fits your local climate and landscape with Colleen Dieter.

    Colleen is an ISA Certified Arborist, a landscape consultant and owner of Red Wheelbarrow Landscape, the founder of Central Texas Seed Savers, an organization preventing extinction of valuable Texas plants.

    Colleen is also a proud graduate of Susan's online courses at orchardpeople.com!

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    Learn how to grow fruit trees naturally by leveraging historical knowledge and organic, regenerative, and ecological practices with Lindsay Engers. Lindsay is a horticulturist, lecturer, and founder/owner of Chiltern Heritage Orchards (CHO) in the UK.


    Lindsay operates his orchard with 3 simple principles:

    1. Historical knowledge of reliable cultivars and growing requirements.
    2. Organic and regenerative growing techniques w...
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    Learn how to choose the best companion plants for your fruit trees, build simple and effective guilds, and avoid common mistakes.
    Permaculture educator, co-founder of the Shenandoah Permaculture Institute, and co-author of Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, Ryan Blosser shares plant combinations that work — and the stories behind them — from dynamic accumulators to barrier plant...

    Learn how "anyone can grow" by choosing the right fruit tree with Josh Davis, a Master Gardener and Fruit Tree Grower in South Carolina, on this episode of the Orchard People Radio Show.

    He is known as Uncle Josh Gardens and @theplanttechie on social media.

    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


    Susan is the author of four bo...

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    April 29, 2025 47 mins

    Learn how to grow and enjoy the fruit of the overlooked and forgotten medlar (Mespilus germanica) with Jane Steward, author of MEDLARS - Growing & Cooking (affiliate link), founder of Eastgate Larder in North Norfolk, UK (which is also part of the prestigious Plant Heritage National Collection), in this episode of the Orchard People Radio Show.


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    Learn about the best apple trees for warm climates with Larry Stephenson, nurseryman at  Southern Cultured Orchards and Nursery in Coldwater Mississippi and NAFEX director, on this episode of the Orchard People Radio Show.


    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


    Susan is the author of four books on fruit tree care.
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    Learn how to make your fruit trees produce better quality fruit with specialist fruit tree pruning!

    In this special episode, Harold Thornbro, Host of The Modern Homesteading Podcast (https://redemptionpermaculture.com/category/podcast/) interviews Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com.

    Susan is the author of the new book Fruit Tree Pruning: The Science and Art of Cultivating Healthy Fruit Trees (affiliate link).


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    Learn espalier fruit tree pruning and the Lorette pruning system with Andy (Apples) Lewis, Lead Grower at The Newt in Somerset, UK, on this episode of the Orchard People Radio Show.


    Plus, don’t miss this month's Spotlight on Fruit Trees segment, where we explore the Ó:iase® Apple Tree with Veronique Alexandre of Hardy Fruit Tree Nursery in Quebec!


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    How can you create a self-watering permaculture garden or orchard? The secret is in the soil! We explore that topic with Bill Wilson of MidwestPermaculture.com in this episode of the Orchard People radio show. 

    Learn about Bill's online course here:

    https://midwestpermaculture.com/the-heart-of-permaculture/


    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www....

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    November 26, 2024 58 mins

    Best Fruit Tree Pruning Tools with Ron Perry. 

    Learn about the best fruit tree pruning tools with Ron Perry, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University (MSU). 


    Ron Perry is the co-author of Espalier Fruit Plantings for Northern Gardens: Creating Fruit Trees as Art (Affiliate Link) and he was featured in Episode 80 of this podcast where he spoke about Espalier Fruit Tree Pruning


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    October 29, 2024 59 mins

    Learn about Columnar Apple Trees for Small Gardens in this episode of the Orchard People radio show. Our guests are: Kenong Xu, Associate Professor, and Laura Dougherty of Cornell University in Geneva New York and Angela Palmer, Founder and Co-Owner of Plants Nouveau in Alabama. 


    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


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    Learn a Biodynamic approach to fertilizing fruit trees in the fall with Alan Suprenant of Brook Farm Orchard in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


    This show goes out LIVE on the last Tuesday of every month at 1.00 pm Eastern Time. After that you can download the...

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    Learn how to look at fruit tree leaves and identify common nutrient deficiencies (ie a lack of nitrogen, magnesium or boron) with Eric Hanson, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture Michigan State University.

    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


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    Learn about the wild and cultivated apple varieties at the USDA's Apple Collection of 5000+ Unique apple trees in Geneva, New York with my guest Ben Gutierrez, Curator of Apple and Tart Cherry for the USDA


    For more information visit the USDA Plant Genetics Resource Unit website.
    For more information on the USDA's apple collection annual open house visit USDA's apple collection annual open house page. 


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    Learn how beneficial nematodes can control orchard pests including plum curculio and Japanese beetles with entomologist David Shapiro-Ilan at the Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory in Byron in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. 


    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  


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    May 28, 2024 59 mins

    Have you ever found mummified and immature fruit on your fruit trees? Learn what's happening and how to prevent this using botanical sprays in this episode of the Orchard People podcast. 

     

    Our guest is Plant Pathologist, Mycologist, and Bacteriologist Kerik D. Cox Ph.D. of the Cox Program at Cornell University

     

    The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website w...

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    What fruit trees are illegal to propagate? Learn about fruit tree propagation law with with Jeremy Kent Tamsen of Washington State University. WSU's Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee Washington developed and introduced many new specialty crops over the years, including the popular Cosmic Crisp® apple.

    During the show, we talk about the WA64 naming contest. Here is the naming contest website link


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    Learn about the best wood mulches for fruit trees with Linda Chalker-Scott, Professor of Horticulture at Washington State University in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast.

    Linda is the award-winning author of six books including How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do (Science for Gardeners). She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educat...

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    Learn when, why and how to grow fruit trees in fabric pots. Our show guest on the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Kevin Espiritu of EpicGardening.com. Kevin is the author of the book Grow Bag Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow Bountiful Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Flowers in Lightweight, Eco-Friendly, Fabric Pots.

    The images used in the video version of this episode were supplied Giving Grove (www.givinggro...

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