56. Grow, Baby, Grow!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 128 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about farming, backyard gardens, and the Black Panther Party! Sound quality changes halfway thru this episode due to technical difficulties, thank you for bearing with us! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.northstar-ok.com/blog/indoor-gardening https://about.spud.com/blog-regrowing-vegetables-from-scrap/ https://tinyurl.com/mthvbkhn https://medium.com/@Miigle/the-rise-of-urban-farming-cf894db51784 https://tinyurl.com/5b6a694d https://phys.org/news/2019-02-urban-agriculture-food-cities.html https://tinyurl.com/bdfj8szu https://tinyurl.com/zx8jyj5h https://tinyurl.com/2dap25mj https://www.fb.org/newsroom/fast-facts https://tinyurl.com/2p8pwr8y https://coopeduplife.com/vegetable-garden-statistics/ https://tinyurl.com/4nvhzrx9 https://tinyurl.com/2p8pz2u2 https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/subsistence_farming https://tinyurl.com/4cn7f88u https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/dining/fruit-vegetables-imports.html https://tinyurl.com/5x26wp3w https://tinyurl.com/yztn2sb7 https://tinyurl.com/bdca8ay3 https://tinyurl.com/4drnwx8k https://tinyurl.com/5n954kzm https://tinyurl.com/2zf4una6 https://tinyurl.com/mr2njhx8 https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html https://tinyurl.com/mrhwj9bk https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701066/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6372235/ https://tinyurl.com/2ny2fynm https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ https://tinyurl.com/2p9errwz https://tinyurl.com/y2bjbnwt https://tinyurl.com/ycku2pr8 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/ https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts https://tinyurl.com/2p8yksd4 https://tinyurl.com/y6zatm8e https://tinyurl.com/wjtvrz7f

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:28.6	All right, Kenna, today we're going to start the episode off with me asking you, have you ever grown a vegetable?
0:36.1	I have. Okay, would you grow? I grew one summer only, or one fall. I grew
0:42.9	really, really delicious heirloom tomatoes. And they were like so good that you could eat them like
0:48.7	apples. And I'm not even a tomato person. Wait, where did you live when you grew the beautiful,
0:53.8	wonderful tomatoes? In Portland, Oregon. Our neighbors came over and, like, the next year we're like,
0:58.6	do you have any more of those tomatoes? And we're like, no, for some reason, only this year they grew
1:03.1	and this was the only year they had these heirloom tomato seeds. But they, I still think about them.
1:08.3	They were the best tomatoes I've ever had. And like I said, I am not a
1:11.5	tomato person. Yeah. I mean, one time I made tomato soup, my normal recipe I always make,
1:17.4	vegan tomato soup with like homegrown heirloom tomatoes. And they were so good. I've never had
1:25.0	a soup that good in my life. And it haunts me as well.
1:27.9	The homemade tomatoes.
1:29.3	Yeah, for some.
1:30.3	Yeah, I, because I think we're like up at a Portland nursery and we're just like,
1:34.7	ooh, these like, they had like some fancy name and we're just like, ooh, like fancy tomatoes.
1:40.3	But they legit were so fucking good.
1:43.5	Like, and we never found them again and we never got to, we never grew tomatoes as good
1:48.7	again.
1:49.2	Were they seeds or like the sapling?
1:52.1	I think they were seeds.
1:54.3	Wow.
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