A Growing Passion

  • Premiered: May 2013
  • Episodes: 48
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Home and garden

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Season 5
5x1
Homegrown Hops: Local Flavor for Local Brews
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 20, 2017
Brewing is all the rage in San Diego County. Beer recipes start with a few basic ingredients: water, grains and hops. In this episode we’ll visit a local hops farm, discover the process .. show full overview
5x2
Distant Roots & Tasty Shoots: Plants at the Zoo
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Air date
Apr 27, 2017
We stroll through the zoo with some of the staff who point out plants they harvest on-site, then we go off-site where they grow and harvest more. What there isn't room to grow on-site .. show full overview
5x3
Wild & Wooly: Native Bee Pollinators
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Air date
May 02, 2017
Honeybees are the best-known and most recognizable insect pollinators in our farms and gardens. Without them, we'd have no peaches, nectarines, apples, almonds, lemons, oranges, .. show full overview
5x4
The Story of Seeds: From Breeding to Eating
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Air date
May 04, 2017
Walk into the produce section of the grocery store and you'll see big, beautiful heads of broccoli. Why are store bought and home grown fruits and vegetable so different? Learn about the .. show full overview
5x5
Aquaponics: Fish Poop to Plant Roots
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Air date
May 11, 2017
Aquaponics is a mashup of hydroponics and aquaculture. It is the practice of using fish wastewater as fertilizer for plants, whose roots filter the water, cleaning it sufficiently to be .. show full overview
5x6 Season finale
Urban Forests: Trees & Plants in the City
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Air date
May 18, 2017
The words "urban" and "forest" may sound like contradictory terms but our urban environments are, or could be, vast forests of street trees,park trees, and backyard trees. Trees are very .. show full overview

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