Orchard People

About Orchard People

Learn how to grow and care for fruit trees with fruit tree care educator Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com. Discover how to create permaculture plantings, food forests, and forest gardens in both urban and rural settings. Meet experts on all aspects of comprehensive fruit tree care, including pruning, pest and disease prevention, fruit tree grafting and budding, and soil management. Show host Susan Poizner, creator of the fruit tree education website OrchardPeople.com, is an award-winning author of three fruit tree care books and an ISA Certified Arborist. This podcast is the winner of the 2021 GardenComm Silver Award of Achievement for Broadcast Media: Radio Program Overall. Learn more and access archived episodes at https://podcast.orchardpeople.com/. Learn more about Susan's books and courses at https://learn.orchardpeople.com/books.

Publisher

Susan Poizner, OrchardPeople.com

Category

leisure · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jan 2016

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 127 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why do some fruit trees thrive while others struggle? with Derek Barbe and Chrisina Balint

   Host Susan Poizner interviews soil microscopy expert Derek Barbe and GreenUP's Christina Balint about how soil biology impacts fruit tree health and growth.

2. 

   30 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Classic Episode: Vertical Mulching with Dr. Glynn Percival

   Susan Poizner interviews Dr. Glynn Percival, Senior Arboricultural Research Manager, about vertical mulching to address compacted soil and promote healthy fruit tree roots.

3. 

   26 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Classic Episode: Grow Fruit Trees Fast with John Cline

   Host Susan Poizner interviews fruit tree physiologist John Cline about the science behind rapid fruit tree growth and early fruiting.

Inside a recent episode

Why do some fruit trees thrive while others struggle? with Derek Barbe and Chrisina Balint

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We've also got you guys on the line. To promote more fungi, are there things other than mulching, which we've been talking about, are you aware of anybody actually like introducing fungi? into their orchards fungi is not just going to show up per se well it will over a long period of time but like between growing season that's not really going to increase unless you get a good compost in there that's rich in either spores or actual fungi once you have the fungi there then you can start to foster it whether it's give it fungal foods like wood chips is a fungal food um And then there's other things you can put in the soil like fish emulsion and fish hydrolysis, which is another fungal food that can kind of foster the fungi growing more. […]

Who has been a guest on Orchard People

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Derek Barbe
• Christina Balint
• Glynn Percival
• John Cline
• Ryan Blosser

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,163,017

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

54 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

45 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

98

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Books guests

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