1KHO 575: My Life Changed When I Started Growing My Own Food | Bailey Van Tassel, Kitchen Garden Living

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What if the antidote to our frantic, hyper-scheduled lives is a single pot of herbs on the back step? In this deeply honest conversation, returning guest Bailey Van Tassel shares how planting one container cracked open a new way of living—rewiring how she mothers, works, and measures “success.” We talk about the joy of learning again as an adult, the “just-enoughness” a garden offers in every season, and why kids (and parents) come alive when we co-create with nature. You’ll hear the city-to-soil story behind Bailey’s new book Kitchen Garden Living, and the surprising ways a messy bed of flowers can mirror a beautiful, resilient family life. Listen and let your shoulders drop. Then we get practical: pollinator borders that invite life, trap crops that protect your veggies, companion planting that keeps pests in check, trellises and hoops that make space, and Bailey’s simple “poker planting” method so you know what to grow, where, and how much. We also swap soul-feeding ideas—family foraging maps, pressed-flower pasta, homegrown teas and salves—and make the case to start small today. Follow Bailey and explore her resources at baileyvantassel.com. Listen in and then share this one with a friend who’s craving a gentler pace—and maybe a tomato that tastes like summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:02.5	My name is Ginny Urge.
0:03.4	I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And Bailey Van Tassel is back. Welcome, Bailey. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here and just see your face. You are like a bright light of joy every time I see you. Oh, thank you. And we got to see each other in person at the Homestead Festival in, I always forget. It's in Columbia. It was in Columbia, Tennessee.
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:23.9	I was thrilled to see you. I didn't know anybody and my family was supposed to come. They didn't come last minute. And you were there. Joel Salton was there. And when you go to a place where there's a lot of people and you don't really know anybody and then you see a familiar face it is like a balm to your
0:37.9	soul.
0:38.7	Absolutely.
0:39.0	It's a person that I know.
0:40.8	So it was such a buzzing and you had the most beautiful booth and you have a new book out and it's
0:45.0	called Kitchen Garden Living and I have to say, Bailey, I was like, wow, she's really
0:49.2	brave to write a gardening book.
0:52.6	Because I'm like, there are kind of a lot of gardening books.
0:55.5	But I was like, I was like, man, you, I have so many notes from this.
0:59.8	Look how many notes I have.
1:01.3	I mean, I loved it so much.
1:04.0	Once again, it's called Kitchen Garden Living, Seasonal Growing and Eating from a Beautiful,
1:08.0	bountiful Food Garden.
1:09.8	But it's about so much more than that.
1:12.2	Like, it's about how we raise our children. It's about what are the things that we can get from
1:17.4	gardening beyond just the, you know, the food or whatever. I mean, there was so much in there.
1:23.1	So I would just love to talk about how this was not a part of your life. Like, you are now a gardener who writes books. And this was not a part of your life. Like you are now a gardener who writes books and this was not a part of your life at all.
1:32.4	Even though you kind of grew up in a situation where people were gardening around you,
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