The Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2019 has been revealed in our 19 December, 2019 Dutch podcast. Enjoy even more green audio!
Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2019
Podcaster Ivonne put together the Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2019. The very first edition of this ranking. For you, our listeners. Listen to more nice audio in these dark winter months!
| Rank | Title | Country, presenter | |
| 1 | The healthy garden podcast | USA, Randy Ritchie | Our review |
| 2 | The veg grower podcast | UK, Richard Suggett | Our review |
| 3 | Vroege vogels in 30 minuten (update 2023: link has expired) | NL, Henny Radstaak | |
| 4 | Fwiet! Fwiet! <update 2024: sadly, the link doesn’t work anymore> | BE, Begijn Le Bleu | |
| 5 | Gardens, weeds and words | UK, Andrew Timothy O’Brien | Our review |
Hardly any green podcast available in Dutch. Discutafel is unique as a long-term gardening podcast.
Where are the Dutch?
By the way, where are the Dutch green and sustainable podcasters? We chose to investigate Flemish and English titles, too, to put together a nice list.
We happened to discover a couple of suitable American podcasts and decided to investigate these, as well. But we think a podcast of your own climate zone and region is usually more interesting for gardeners. And as we’re European …..
Any suggestions for voor Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2020?
Poor retrievability
To be honest, it took a lot of digital digging and identification to find ear-catching podcasts for people like you, who feel committed to eco-friendly gardening and sustainability projects.
This has also to do with poor retrievability on the web and limited information provided for each title.
Short list
Firstly, we made a list of features podcasts had to meet in order to win a position in the Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2019:
- Main theme.
Green and sustainable themes like in our programmes.
Gardening, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, nature, environmental issues or cheery projects on energy, mobility and food. - Language.
Dutch or English podcasts. Also Flemish.
Wij concentrated on European podcasts. - Frequency/number of episodes.
At least 3 new episodes in 2019.
Published as a podcast only, or as a ‘tinned’ version of a radio programme.
Criteria
We judged the podcasts in the short list in order to put together the Discutafel Green Podcast Top 5 of 2019.
We used the following criteria.
- Constancy of the formula
- Technical quality
- Catching up value:
to which extent does the podcast maintain a long-term value? - Atmosphere, audio experience
- Chat factor:
information density. At Discutafel, we don’t like too much chit-chat 😉
