25 Best California Nature Podcasts

1. The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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The Beet started as the Epic Gardening Podcast, but has grown into a one-stop shop for plant lovers. Five days a week, we explore topics ranging from beginner gardening tips to in-depth discussions with industry and science experts. Here, we'll open up new gardening horizons, inspire you to greater heights, share new and exciting discoveries in agriculture, and fill your mind with freshly-harvested information you can apply to your own gardening journey!MORE Hosts Kevin Espiritu, Jacques Lyakov
Producer/Network Epic Gardening
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 2.3MTwitter 39.1KInstagram 1.8M Avg Length 45 min Since Mar 2017 Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Cultivating Place

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Cultivating Place is a weekly radio program and podcast that explores the importance of gardens in our natural and cultural literacy. Through conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists, and thinkers, the program highlights how gardens nourish our bodies and spirits, and can change the world for the better. Listeners can learn about the interconnections between gardens and our lives.MORE Host Jennifer Jewell
Producer/Network Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 5.6KInstagram 19.3K Avg Length 63 min Get Email Contact

3. Garden Basics with Farmer Fred

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Tips for beginning and experienced gardeners. New episodes arrive every Friday. Fred Hoffman has been a U.C. Certified Master Gardener since 1982 and writes a weekly garden column for the Lodi News-Sentinel in Lodi, CA. A four-decade fixture in Sacramento radio, he hosted three radio shows for Northern California gardeners and farmers: The KFBK Garden Show, Get Growing with Farmer Fred, and the KSTE Farm Hour.MORE Host Fred Hoffman
Producer/Network Fred Hoffman
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Apple Rating 4.7/5 Avg Length 52 min Since Apr 2020 Get Email Contact

4. Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org

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Are you concerned about the Earth's future? Are you interested in what is being done in Northern California and the world to address environmental issues? Do you want to act? Then tune in every other Sunday to 'Sustainability Now!' on KSQD to hear interviews with scientists, scholars, activists and officials involved in the pursuit of sustainability. Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, CaliforniaMORE Host Ronnie Lipschutz
Producer/Network Ronnie Lipschutz
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 383Instagram 1.5K Avg Length 54 min Get Email Contact

5. Garden Talk by Walter Andersen Nursery Podcast

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Local gardening, horticulture, landscaping information and advice.
Host Walter Andersen
Producer/Network Garden Talk
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Apple Rating 5/5Instagram 8K Avg Length 53 min Get Email Contact

6. Garden America Saturday

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Garden America is a leader in the garden advice industry, sharing scientific breakthroughs and new gardening ideas. As Southern California's no. 1 source of gardening for over 15 years, the now-national Garden America program is your source for the most current and relevant gardening information and products provided by expert purveyors of wonder. The radio show is hosted by Bryan Main, John Bagnasco & Tiger Palafox.MORE Hosts John Bagnasco, Bryan Main, Tiger Palafox
Producer/Network BizTalkPodcasts
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Apple Rating 3/5Facebook 12.6KTwitter 361Instagram 420 Avg Length 78 min Video Podcast YouTube
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7. Hunting Ain't Easy

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The podcast, hosted by California hunter Mike Costello, focuses on hunting topics in California, specifically public land deer and bear hunting. The podcast emphasizes habitat improvement, herd management, and predator management as crucial topics. The podcast features guests discussing how hunters and conservationists can contribute to putting more animals in the woods. Mike, an 'adult onset hunter,' has a scorecard of Deer 0 and Bear 1 for 2021 seasons.MORE Host Mike Costello
Producer/Network Mike Costello
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Apple Rating 5/5Instagram 2.8K Avg Length 57 min Get Email Contact

8. Growing the Valley

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This is a podcast that goes over new research and basic information about growing orchard crops in the Central Valley of California
Hosts Phoebe Gordon, Luke Milliron
Producer/Network University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 25.9KTwitter 14.7KInstagram 6.7K Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

9. Nature's Archive

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Nature's Archive explores and reveals nature in all of its forms through interviews with ecologists, naturalists, educators, authors, and researchers. You'll be inspired by each guest's unique journey and the amazing nuance of nature, which never ceases to challenge conventional wisdom. Nature's Archive is part of Jumpstart Nature, an organization that seeks to empower everyone to support nature and the environment. Join me on this journey!MORE Host Michael Hawk
Producer/Network Michael Hawk
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 471Twitter 122Instagram 1.1K Avg Length 62 min Get Email Contact

10. Davis Garden Show and Beyond on KDRT

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Nursery owner Don Shor and avid gardener Lois Richter talk about gardening from the Sacramento Valley in Northern California every Thursday at Noon on the low-power FM station, KDRT (K-dirt), located in Davis, CA. Garden questions welcome!MORE Hosts Don Shor, Lois Richter
Producer/Network Don Shor
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 1.3KInstagram 632 Avg Length 58 min Since Jan 2019 Get Email Contact

11. Nature's Neighbor

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A show where we talk everything about Food, Farming, Family and Home. Home is always the Central Coast Of California. Always, using methods and practices to mimic nature as close as possible. Hoping to stimulate the conversation of how we eat our politics everyday. With the biggest political act we do everyday is what we put on our plate. To always remember, we stand for is what we stand on. BUY, EAT, LIVE LOCAL. EVERYDAY.MORE Producer/Network Nature's Neighbor
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 467Instagram 335 Avg Length 45 min Get Email Contact

12. Climate Break

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Climate change is upon us. Fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea level rise, and melting ice caps are all part of our new normal. But something else is happening as well. Scientists, innovators, organizations, cities, companies, and citizens are taking action, making progress, and finding solutions.Climate Break brings you stories of climate progress and interviews with climate innovators from California and around the world, in under 2 minutes. Our solution-oriented, radio-ready shows are produced by students and climate law and policy experts at the University of California, Berkeley.MORE Host Ethan Elkind
Producer/Network Berkeley Law
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 67Instagram 218 Avg Length 2 min Get Email Contact

13. Flower Power Garden Hour

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Musings with people in the world of gardening, botany, horticulture, and nature. Marlene takes her years of gardening experience, success, and failures and turns it into an unpretentious, humorous listen. From organic vegetable gardening, houseplants, beekeeping, flowers, and everything in between this podcast covers it.MORE Host Marlene Simon
Producer/Network Marlene Simon
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 32.1KInstagram 19.9K Avg Length 47 min Since Feb 2018 Video Podcast YouTube
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14. Garden Futurist

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Garden Futurist is a show about innovative thinkers, contributing to a climate resilient future through the power of gardens.
Producer/Network Pacific Horticulture
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 10.2KTwitter 1.5KInstagram 5.6K Avg Length 34 min Get Email Contact

15. Gardenerd Tip of the Week

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The Gardenerd Tip of the Week is your one-stop-shop for organic gardening tips and tidbits. Seasonal, organic, and fun advice for your urban farm, homestead, and garden. We cover Sustainable living, vegetable gardening, and more. Celebrate your passion for gardening with a sense of humor.MORE Host Christy Wilhelmi
Producer/Network Gardening with Gardenerd.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 5.2KTwitter 5.3KInstagram 47.4K Avg Length 28 min Since Feb 2007 Get Email Contact

16. Santa Cruz Naturalist

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Santa Cruz Naturalist invites listeners to join UCSC Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate students as they explore nature in and around Santa Cruz County. Each episode will enrich your next experience with nature as you learn fascinating insights (from local experts) about the creatures that inhabit your favorite hiking trails, beaches and even your own backyard.MORE Hosts Kelley Voss, Sara Gonzalez, Emily Donham
Producer/Network Santa Cruz Naturalist
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 77Instagram 1.5K Avg Length 4 min Since Feb 2019 Get Email Contact

17. Forest Focus

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Forest Focus is an audio program about the National Forests in California. Episodes focus on issues such as ecological restoration, fire, recreation, law enforcement, tribal relations and much more.The show features specialists that work for the U.S. Forest Service and guests who provide other points of view on Forest Service issues.MORE Host Paul Wade
Producer/Network USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 305.8KTwitter 186.4KInstagram 325.8K Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact

18. Green and Growing in Southern California

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Articles about gardens, plants and designers here in California and around the world. This podcast is produced by Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles (AIRSLA).
Host Hugh Ralston
Producer/Network AIRSLA
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 14 Avg Length 40 min Get Email Contact

19. In The Garden from KSQD

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In The Garden from KSQD podcast is all about gardening on the Central Coast of California.
Hosts Joe Truskot, Steven E. Popp
Producer/Network ksqd.org
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20. Golden State Naturalist

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Golden State Naturalist is a love letter to California's ecological past, present, and future. Come with Michelle Fullner as she climbs to the top of a beaver dam, descends into a tar pit, peers into the canopy of a giant sequoia, and basks in the glow of the Milky Way under the eerie silhouettes of Joshua trees. Each episode, Michelle interviews captivating experts in their natural habitats across California to find out how the unique plants, animals, geology, and hydrology of this biodiversity hotspot make this state Golden.MORE Host Michelle Fullner
Producer/Network Michelle Fullner
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 1.3KInstagram 35.5K Avg Length 60 min Get Email Contact

21. Fish Water People

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At CalTrout, we work hard every day to restore California's freshwater ecosystems and to keep them healthy for years to come, but we don't do it alone. The Fish Water People podcast highlights the individuals who make our work possible, at CalTrout and beyond. Join podcast host and CalTrout Executive Director Curtis Knight as we talk about the science, policy, restoration, equity, and more that goes into making the changes we want to see in the world.The Fish Water People podcast is brought to you by California Trout and Bridget Shaw and Drew Alvarez at Pusher, Inc.MORE Producer/Network California Trout
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 10.2KTwitter 2.7KInstagram 17.1K Avg Length 38 min Get Email Contact

22. Slough Cast

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Hello! Welcome to the Slough Cast, the Elkhorn Slough Foundation podcast! Elkhorn Slough is one of California's last great coastal wetlands. We see Elkhorn Slough and its watershed protected forever—a working landscape where people, farming, industry, and nature thrive together. Here on the Slough Cast, we'll explore Elkhorn Slough together, build community, and share stories of this special place.MORE Producer/Network Elkhorn Slough Foundation
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 8.5KTwitter 1.7KInstagram 4.8K Avg Length 20 min Get Email Contact

23. Cacti, Succulent and More

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Planet Desert is a Southern California-based family-owned wholesale/retail nursery. We are committed to growing a diverse range of cacti and succulents and are always adding, developing, and creating new products. We provide the best quality plants at the most competitive prices. After all, we've been in the business for a long time!MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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