Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside,

and I am so excited about today's guest. We're going to be talking about greenhouses and these

high tunnels and all sorts of tools that you can use in the garden and things to amend your soil.

We are at the same homestead festival with Rory and Rebecca Feke, Sean Piserra from Mindful Farmer, Arkansas.

Welcome.

Hey, thanks for having me, Jim.

I'm so excited about this because one of the ways to get kids outside more and families outside more is to garden and to spend time with animals if you have space and everyone has different situation, but you can always scale up and scale down.

You can do things on your porch.

You can do things out on your balcony.

If you have a yard, you can use your yard to do things. And one of the things that really stuck out to me was we used to have these neighbors. This is years ago. And they got chickens. We lived in a place where you weren't supposed to get chickens. You know how that is sometimes, Sean? Yeah. It was like not, it was against the rules, but she got them anyway.

And she kept him in a run. And anyway, she told me one time because we would sometimes help if they were out of town. She said, it bookends my day. I have to get outside and I have to care for these chickens. Even if it's really cold, we're in Michigan. You know, even if it's rainy, I have to go care for these animals. And it automatically

infuses this morning time outdoors and this nighttime outdoors evening. And I was like, oh, you know,

when you're disconnected from the land, those are sometimes things that you don't, you aren't aware of.

And now as a mom, we have a garden. Now we don't do it every year, but we did do it this year. We try and do it. And it's the same thing. Like you have to get out in water. You have to go care for those things. And it enhances your life so much. So I would love for Sean for you to tell your story because this is new for you. You are encouraging families to move from being backyard farmers to being organic backyard, you know, growers.

You can tell people. But this is new. You were having a full-time job doing something else just a few years

ago. Yeah, yeah, that's right. So my background is environmental science. So I work as an ecologist

full-time. We did residential plans. You did restoration plans, I worked with oil and gas,

and then felt this calling to do more

with actually being a better steward of the earth

and seeing more life in place of just putting in houses

and stuff like that.

I wanna see life flourish and part of that

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