214-The National Gardening Association's 2021 Survey Findings: What Gardeners Think
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Each year since 1973, the Texas-based National Gardening Association works with professional pollsters to conduct the National Gardening Survey, which offers valuable insights into the mindset of gardeners across the United States. To help break the data down to better understand what gardeners think, my guest this week is National Gardening Association Executive Director Dave Whitinger.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lampel. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.3 | Show. |
| 0:24.3 | Well, today it's kind of a geek out session, but it's more around survey responses. |
| 0:30.1 | Now before you tune out on this, you're going to want to hear this one because it's from |
| 0:33.8 | the National Gardening Association, and they do this huge, huge survey every year, and |
| 0:39.9 | they just released the findings of their 2021 survey, which of course encompasses the impact |
| 0:46.2 | of COVID in this pandemic and how that impacted gardening. |
| 0:51.3 | For you, a new Gardner because of COVID, I know some of you were because you've told |
| 0:55.2 | me in your podcast reviews, you found this podcast during COVID or right when COVID was |
| 0:59.8 | starting, and you began your gardening and you were learning a lot through this podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | But this survey is huge. |
| 1:08.3 | It's 438 something pages, I think we'll get into those details as we have this conversation |
| 1:14.4 | with Dave Whitinger. |
| 1:15.9 | Dave is the executive director of the National Gardening Association. |
| 1:19.5 | They've been around since the early 70s and they're an organization that was formed |
| 1:24.1 | to really create some stats and figures and data that the industry could get their head |
| 1:29.4 | around about what was happening with gardening, and at the same time provide an information |
| 1:34.6 | resource for gardeners of all levels. |
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