115 - Organic Gardening for Everyone with CaliKim
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible that organic gardening can actually be an option for everyone? We all know the high prices of organic food at the grocery store. But what if you could grow your own organic vegetables where you live?
A common misconception is that you have to have a lot of land to grow a garden. But that's just not true! CaliKim has been growing her own organic fruits and vegetables in a small California backyard for years.
And she has become so passionate about making sure others know how doable this is -- as you might have seen in her YouTube channel -- that she has written a book to equip new gardeners in this fun and exciting venture of home organic gardening.
Kim's new book, Organic Gardening for Everyone, walks you through every step to preparing, planting, and harvesting your garden. She focuses on the big picture of why you would want to grow you own food and what it can mean for your family and your community.
In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, Kim answers some of your common questions about organic gardening and gardening in a small space. Then, make sure and grab a copy of Organic Gardening for Everyone!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, |
| 0:06.1 | and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the am introducing you to some garden authors with some fantastic gardening books. |
| 0:38.4 | Over the last couple of episodes you have heard from Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening |
| 0:43.4 | and Luke Marion from MI Gardner as they shared their books that have just come out this year. |
| 0:50.2 | Today I'm excited to share with you another person whose garden teaching really shaped my early |
| 0:57.5 | gardening experiences. And this is Callie Kim from her YouTube channel, Callie Kim. She's been teaching |
| 1:04.5 | gardeners how to garden for years through her YouTube channel and I have learned so much from |
| 1:09.0 | her, especially when it comes to how to grow so |
| 1:13.3 | much food in a limited amount of space. She has tons to share on how to get started with |
| 1:19.1 | gardening and also how to up your gardening game. I'm listening really closely to her because she is |
| 1:24.3 | fabulous at growing food in containers and that's an area I really need to get |
| 1:28.9 | better at. Her book is called Organic Gardening for Everyone, Homegrown Vegetables Made Easy. |
| 1:37.1 | And this is one that actually hasn't released yet. It is going to be available on Christmas Eve, |
| 1:42.9 | December 24th. And if I'm not mistaken, if you pre-order |
| 1:47.6 | this book, and I'm going to have links in the show notes and in the details and description of |
| 1:51.8 | this episode, I'm pretty sure, at least this has been the case with every book that I've pre-ordered, |
| 1:56.8 | I believe that you will have it on your doorstep on Christmas Eve. Now, what better than that to |
| 2:02.4 | give yourself a Christmas gift the day before Christmas and that way after the hustle and bustle of |
| 2:07.7 | the Christmas season is over, you have a gardening book that you can dive into. So again, this is called |
| 2:13.3 | organic gardening for everyone. Homegrown vegetables made easy. Even though it's not available to the |
| 2:19.6 | public yet, I got a chance to review and read the book and I can tell you I loved it. Of course, |
| 2:26.5 | like I said, I've loved all the books that I'm sharing with you today, but I specifically love |
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