A garden inspired life

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The garden nourishes Annette in many ways – not just through the healthy food she produces. She has discovered ways to interweave the garden into her daily life and tries to involve her family in the gardening process. She uses the garden to inspire her to live a more naturalistic life. From decorations to garden spaces to nutritious produce, she enjoys the fruits of her labor. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Z3z4mi Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45F9aI4 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Pnox26 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/47PkFxQ Connect With Annette Thurmon: Annette Thurmon is a modern-day homesteader who lives with her husband, Jared, and their daughter Ava in the small town of Adairsville, Georgia. After years of city life, she sought a simpler way of living and moved to the country. There she cares for her organic garden and orchard, and animals which include alpacas, miniature donkeys, chickens, turkeys, bees, and more! She is self-taught and loves sharing with others what she has learned over the years. Her goal is to inspire others to live this lifestyle and share her daily adventures on social media - @azurefarm, her website - azurefarm.com, and the Azure Farm Podcast which she hosts with her husband. Website Instagram TikTok Pinterest Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Garden has given my life basically everything that I have today to be honest with you.
0:08.9	I never thought I would be someone who is like snapping photos of plants and there's
0:14.0	almost no people in my camera roll, but that's the kind of person I am now.
0:18.2	I suspect that perhaps this was a similar thing for you.
0:21.6	We have Annette Thurman back on the show from Azure Farm.
0:24.8	She is in a daresville, Georgia.
0:29.0	You didn't come to this as a kid like you mentioned, like the 20-year gap before you got
0:33.9	back into it, so how has it impacted your life?
0:37.6	You've been on the farm for what, eight years now?
0:40.2	Almost eight years.
0:41.5	I feel like now it's such a big part of who I am.
0:45.2	It's so weird to think I had a life without it, but now that I'm in it, I think the
0:54.4	main thing that has happened is that gardening and the outdoors has permeated like every aspect
0:59.7	of my life.
1:01.0	I'm here all the time.
1:02.3	I'm outside.
1:03.3	I'm working.
1:04.3	I have my daughter with me all the time, and so it's kind of turned into how can I make
1:08.8	this be the thing for our family and how do we bring nature inside into all we do?
1:14.8	That's been so just so fun.
1:18.9	Of course, you can say the easiest way is probably harvesting food and cooking it.
1:25.4	That's like an easy way to experience it, but what else can we do?
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