249 - Growing Food on 1/40 acre with Nicky at Permaculture Gardens
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm talking with Nicky at Permaculture Gardens about growing food in a small space, worm composting, and so much more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast today. If you are growing on a very small space, or maybe you just |
| 0:06.6 | want to be more efficient with the space that you have, you are going to love today's guest. |
| 0:11.5 | I have with me, Nikki, from Permaculture Gardens. She gardens on 140th of an acre. Actually, she may be |
| 0:19.8 | getting ready to move by the time this comes out, but she |
| 0:22.6 | has built her garden in such a small space that she's able to feed her very large family |
| 0:28.6 | with a lot of what they grow themselves. She's going to share with us some of her tricks to |
| 0:34.4 | maximizing the space that she has. She talks about utilizing her climate in unique |
| 0:39.9 | ways, using permaculture techniques even on a small scale, and even some unique ways of composting, |
| 0:48.2 | because composting can be a little bit more challenging when we don't have a lot of space. |
| 0:53.9 | As you will hear Nikki and I refer to |
| 0:56.3 | during our conversation, I got connected with her because we are both presenters at the Life |
| 1:02.0 | Skills Now Virtual Online Summer Camp geared for kids that are ages 5 to 18. This is a free camp |
| 1:10.1 | that is going on right now online this week. And the good |
| 1:14.3 | news is that both the camp that I am hosting, which is how to grow a pizza garden, and one of the |
| 1:20.6 | ones that Nikki's hosting, she's actually doing two, they both go live tomorrow on Wednesday. |
| 1:26.7 | So you still have a chance to sign up for this opportunity. |
| 1:30.1 | And if you're listening to this later in the week, |
| 1:32.0 | go ahead and sign up because there are a lot |
| 1:34.4 | of different camp opportunities that you can still take advantage of. |
| 1:37.8 | The link will be in the show notes. |
| 1:40.3 | But for now, let's go ahead and get to my conversation |
| 1:42.7 | with Nikki at Permaculture Gardens. |
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