Gardeners of the Galaxy Podcast

14/02/2023

It's Valentine's Day on Earth, and love is definitely in the recycled air in the Orbital Garden! Join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores the history of roses in space, and an art project that imagines a future for roses on Mars. Support the show via Patreon and get early access to episodes, sne...

03/02/2023

In this teaser episodes, join Emma the Space Gardener for a trip into the astrobotany archives. In 2006, researchers published their work attempting to grow marigolds on simulated lunar regolith. But there's more to it than that.... If you'd like to hear the whole story then you can buy the full epi...

24/01/2023

The food technologies developed for Mars could place us on a much more sustainable trajectory on Earth.

24/01/2023

Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report: 24 Jan 23 - your weekly round-up of astrobotany news and adventures!
https://mailchi.mp/721c48a8f07e/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-mission-report-24-jan-23

20/01/2023

Tim Peake is resigning as an active ESA astronaut to take on an ambassadorial role for space.

18/01/2023

Stinging nettles are not high on many people’s lists of favourite plants. But there’s so much more to this nettlesome species than people realise.

10/01/2023

A New Year of Awaits! In this week's Gardeners of the Galaxy newsletter, you'll find out about the plants coming home, new research on the way and cool stuff about and here on Earth.
https://mailchi.mp/c01952ab67c8/a-new-year-of-astrobotany-awaits

10/01/2023

Take a look at NASA's favourite astrobotany photos from 2022.

06/01/2023

What happens when you ask ChatGPT about the history of space plants?

05/01/2023

Can the ChatGPT chatbot imagine future Martians growing plants?

04/01/2023

What happens when I ask the ChatGPT chatbot to choose its fantasy space plant?

03/01/2023

What happened when I tried to have a conversation with the ChatGPT chatbot about space plants?

26/12/2022

New technologies could meet increased global food demands on less than 20% of the world’s existing farmland.

19/12/2022

The last episode of 2022 is here, and it's a good one! I've been talking with Amy Padolf and Carl Lewis from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden about their citizen science/education project Growing Beyond Earth® (GBE). GBE is really something special, because it allows school students to collect data that influences which plants NASA grows in space.

Emma the Space Gardener talks with Amy Padolf and Carl Lewis from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden about their citizen science/education project Growing Beyond Earth®.

19/12/2022

The last episode of 2022 is here, and it's a good one! Emma the Space Gardener has been talking with Amy Padolf and Clive Lewis from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden about their citizen science/education project Growing Beyond Earth® (GBE). GBE is really something special, because it allows sc...

17/12/2022

The Gardeners of the Galaxy Year in Review continues.... In July, Gardeners of the Galaxy went Down Under to talk Space Wattle Seeds with Jackie Carpenter from One Giant Leap Australia.

In 2021, One Giant Leap Australia sent golden wattle seeds into space, as part of a nationwide STEM project to explore "What'll Happen to the Wattle??!".