Welcome everyone back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today, I am very, very excited. I don't know if many of you know this, but I think I may have mentioned it before, but I am half Filipino, so I've grown up in both a white and Asian culture growing up in my life.

It was a Navy chef, and so he spent a lot of time cooking a small garden in the backyard, but I certainly wish I had a little more of that growing up, especially when it comes to growing.

And so today, I'm really excited to talk to Regina of Asian Garden to Table. She's the founder with her husband, and what she does is she introduces Asian vegetables that many of us aren't familiar with.

At least here in America or here in the West, they sell seeds, they provide growing and cooking tips, and I've actually been recommended Regina, your YouTube channel many times, so I'm really excited to have you on the podcast.

Thank you.

So do you mind giving me a little background on how did Asian Garden to Table come to be? You mentioned there's 100 plus Asian vegetables.

When I hear that, I think, maybe I can name 10. So I don't know as many as I wish I did, and so how did it all come to be?

Well, one of the reasons that I started Asian Garden to Table at the beginning, I just have a garden in my backyard, and then I grow kind of the vegetable that I grew up with.

With a lot of these vegetables, I couldn't find any place to buy them. It was very hard for me. When I just moved here, I couldn't get the vegetable that couldn't buy the vegetable that I was familiar with. It was very hard.

So I started to grow garden in my backyard, and then I got some good experience, and I have very nice garden, and then I started to share my garden, some growing experience online, on some Chinese forum, and then a lot of people that really like the experience I share with them.

So I started to make video on YouTube. That was very, very beginning, and a lot of good feedback. So I spent more time making videos, and then a lot of people asked me, hey, when you get all the seed, it was very hard to find the seed.

Actually, I bought some of them from some of the retail online, and then a lot of the seed, I have to exchange with the other gardeners.

And a lot of people don't really know this vegetable, they don't really have access to this vegetable. So I started to look around to see where I can get the seed, and I started to build my website, sell some of the seed on our website.

That's when we started our business, and then, okay, and after a while, I feel like, you know what, I want to do this as my food, my hobby, and also my job, because I used to work in a chemical company.

I was a process engineer. I worked there for three years, and after three years, and I feel like that I want to do something that I really like, and to me, important.

And I think that I really enjoy sharing and teaching people, growing Asian vegetable. Like you said, I mentioned that to you, there are over a hundred different kind of vegetables in China, in Asia, much more than what we can see in the supermarket here.

That's one of, and a lot of this vegetable, we know over here, a lot of Western people, that the vegetable they know, they mostly grow in cooler weather.

Florida, a lot of these vegetables, they can only grow late autumn to early spring, for a few months, three or four months, and for the most of the time, most time of the year, it will be too hot to grow these vegetables.

But there are a lot of Asian vegetables that they will grow through summertime here in Florida.

And that's where your gardens in Florida, would you?

Yes, my garden is in Florida.

Okay. Yes.

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