Outta The Park

Part 2 picks up right where part 1 left off. This is Horticinction pt. 2. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland drive The Growing Season right into the dustbowl. The trio discuss the edible plants that are on the brink of extinction and what can be done to mitigate or even reverse the effects. It's a sobering look at a topic that many want to shy away from. The time to act is now and The Growing Season sheds some light on how. Its a sobering discussion for gardening enthusiasts. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

This week we catch up with former Blue Jay Josh Thole for a deep dive into everything from Italian baseball, to Toronto pizza, to dealing with the capricious nature of RA Dickey's signature knuckler. Also this week, Barry and Tom talk about the changing (some might say shrinking) landscape in Canadian sports media.

You might want to sit down for this one! The McFarland's chat about all the trees that have gone extinct or are on the brink. The "Red List," the list that organisms find themselves on if they are on the verge of disappearing forever, is filling up rapidly. Jack, Lynne and Matt discuss some heavy topics but offer insights into what we can do to help. Its a sobering discussion for gardening enthusiasts. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

We have an extremely in depth and powerful talk with former Blue Jay LaTroy Hawkins. This episode covers some difficult topics; from racism and death threats, to personal loss, as LaTroy speaks about Pedro Gomez, who passed away such a tragically short time after he cast a Hall of Fame vote for LaTroy. Some heavy material, but this is not a down episode. Lots of hope and some wonderful perspectives from a player who was known for his ability to bring people together in the clubhouse.

They're pointy, they're prickly and they're fascinating. The Growing Season goes Sonoran and tackles some of the most prickly customers to ever grace a plot of soil. Cacti - their ins and outs and how to care for them in your home are all discussed. As usual, Jack, Lynne and Matt stumble upon the weirdos of the cactus group. Cacti that jump out at you and ones that relocate themselves are all topics of discussion. Julia Dimakos, The Growing Season's resident veggie Jedi, joins the McFarlands to chat about what she is seeding at this time of year. The quartet have fun, as usual. Visit Julia Dimakos online: CLICK HERE. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property with spring on the way? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

Scott Downs Feb 14 by Barry Davis

It's that time of year again. The time of year where you give roses to your partner. The time of year where you have a lovely meal and admire the corpse flower spewing stink into the room around you. Wait, what? The Growing Season offers the sequel to their sexy plants show just in time for Valentines day. From the usual to the completely unusual Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland guide you through some serious strangeness and laugh like idiots along the way. Its very much what you've come to expect from The Growing Season - frisky and floral! Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

We catch up with Alan Frew for an unbelievably frank and in depth conversation. Alan speaks about the many things he's been keeping busy with, despite covid: and along the way he shares some pretty wonderful insights, both from his storied musical career, to his inspiring journey of recovery from a stroke.

Huge episode this week, as we catch up with one of the funniest players to ever don a Blue Jays uniform. Also this week for the first time, we open our chat up to some of our amazing OTP Insiders, so that they had the chance to catch up with Joe and ask him questions as well. The result is a really special talk and an exciting new direction for OTP! Join us at patreon.com/outtathepark and be a part of the next chat!

The Growing Season Feb 6, 2021 - The Weirdest Edibles by Barry Davis

We sit down with Canada's 'Princess of Everything' Bif Naked for an in depth conversation about everything from cannabis to pets to the many great things she's been up to, as she navigates our new covid reality. Lots of great positivity here and as it turns out, lots of great music on the way too! Bif has a new single called "Broke Into Your Car" that's out now and an album coming soon!

We catch up with Liam Hendricks as he gets ready to join his new team, the Chicago White Sox. Liam tells us how tantalizingly close he was to becoming a Blue Jay again in 2021. Some pretty great perspectives from the lone Australian in the Majors as he gears up for what we all hope, will be as close to a normal season as covid will allow!

Sometimes you just have to double down. After last week's foray into the weirdness of large trees The McFarlands steer the frigate that is The Growing Season into even weirder waters. Fungus that looks like cheesecake or vomit. Orchids that look like one of the most legendary movie villains and a plant named after a nautical weapon - and for good reason. Jack, Lynne and Matt are sticking with weird and you're along for the ride. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

We catch up with the incomparable Carole Pope for an in depth chat about everything from Rough Trade to human rights to Carole's great new music and how she's coping with the strange times we all find ourselves in at the moment.

We catch up with former Blue Jay Chris Colabello. Its been almost 5 years since Chris' MLB career was sidelined by a positive steroid test. Since his positive test, Chris has dedicated himself to clearing, not just his own name, but the names of 21 more players that have been hit with inexplicable positives from this same (increasingly dubious) test. Its an amazing and often hilarious talk, that will hopefully make you re-examine the story of this former Blue Jay.

This can't be real, can it? The McFarlands dive into the most WEIRD trees that the earth has to offer. Exploding fruit, trees that bleed red, trees named after mythical creatures and GIANT succulents that tower over road ways. All of this and more is covered on an episode of The Growing Season that you just won't believe. BOOM! That's the sound of a trees fruit EXPLODING. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

We have an in depth conversation with Gorde Deppe about everything from the history of The Spoons, to his song writing process, all the way to the great things The Spoons have planned for getting their music out in the covid environment! A must listen for any music fan!

We catch up with Blue Jay great Kelly Gruber in an in depth chat about practically everything from Kelly's early years, to the heights of his success in Toronto, to the great work Kelly is still doing, bringing the game of baseball to a new generation.

How do your favourite plants survive through the winter? You'd be surprised to learn of the amazing environmental adaptations that horticultural organisms have adopted to make it through the harshest conditions. The McFarlands chat about the botany behind this and much more. In the second half of the show Chris St. Clair re-joins The Growing Season to chat about legendary, cataclysmic winter storms. The ice storms of 1998 and 2013 are featured. Its a celebration of all things winter! Follow Chris St. Clair on Twitter. CLICK HERE. Visit The Weather Network online. CLICK HERE. Need a visual? We gotchu. CLICK HERE. Looking to book a consult for your property to get ahead of the Spring rush? We'd love to help. CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast. CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show. CLICK HERE.

We chat with Mike Skill! Probably best known from his years of writing, playing and singing in The Romantics. Mike's been using covid as an opportunity to put out some fantastic new material under his own name. We talk about great new tunes like; We Got Your Rock'n Roll and great old tunes, like the mega hit, What I Like About You. Check out this fantastic chat for a look behind the creative process and history of Mike and The Romantics.