Peace, Love, and Pollinators 🐝
Welcome to Peace, Love & Pollinators — a podcast by ReEarth Solutions
This is the show for anyone who wants a more beautiful yard and a healthier planet. Whether you’ve got a backyard, a balcony, or you just care about the green spaces in your neighborhood, we’ll help you see what’s possible when you work with nature instead of against it.
Each episode blends practical, feel-good advice with the bigger “why it matters.” We’re talking native plants, pollinators, soil life, compost, climate-resilient gardening, and the small changes that create outsized impact — for your landscape, your community, and the living world around you.
With expert guests from across the country, we break down what actually works, bust common myths, and give you simple next steps you can use right away.
Think of us as your friendly guide from “I just want my plants to live” to “I’m building a thriving ecosystem.”
Welcome to Peace, Love & Pollinators. Let’s grow something better.
Peace, Love, and Pollinators 🐝
Episode 8 Blueprint For A Perfect Earth
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Edwina von Gal
Founder / President
A leading voice in sustainable gardening and landscape design, Edwina von Gal founded the Perfect Earth Project in 2013 to promote ecological land care for the health of people, their pets, and the planet. As principal of her eponymous landscape design firm since 1984, Edwina created landscapes with a focus on simplicity, sustainability, and beauty for private and public clients around the world. Her work has been published widely, including in The New York Times, Vogue, and Architectural Digest, and her book Fresh Cuts won the Quill and Trowel award for garden writing in 1998. In 2024, she was named one of the top 50 Creatives in America by Wallpaper* magazine. She has served on boards and committees for a number of horticultural organizations and currently serves on the board of What Is Missing, Maya Lin’s multifaceted media artwork about the loss of biodiversity, Longue Vue’s National Council, and is a member of the Native Plant Trust’s Council. Her awards include the LongHouse Visionary Award from LongHouse Reserve, the New York School of Interior Design’s Green Design Award, the Isamu Noguchi Award, and Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for the Visual Arts.