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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

A Permaculture Approach to Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Starting with local plants that work well in your region is a guaranteed way to have less failures in the garden. Connect With Roxanne Ahern: Roxanne Ahern studied at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Roxanne is now a mother of five on a working homestead that includes sheep, goats, chickens, guinea hens, ducks, sometimes cows, rabbits, and pigs, and of course, dogs and cats. She also grows a large garden. Order Roxanne’s book, Holistic Homesteading Happy Holistic Homesteading blog Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first 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. 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 Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If this is your first one, two, three years gardening, especially after the sort of boom,

0:19.2

so to speak, in the pandemic times, there's probably been some big successes, hopefully,

0:25.2

maybe not so successful grows that you've had in your garden. And this episode, we're talking

0:31.3

with Roxanne Ayrne, the founder of Happy Holistic Homesteading, and author of the Holistic Homesteading

0:36.2

book, which I encourage you to check out about those things. I mean, it sounds like we both didn't

0:42.6

grow up gardening, Roxanne, and maybe we would have made these mistakes when we were that seven-year-old

0:47.8

boy or girl. I didn't make them, so I'm making them all now. I don't know. Do you have any sort of

0:53.9

funny, funny fails from the early days that you wanted to share? Oh, man, there were so many.

0:59.9

Okay, one of the funniest things that happened was I knew my father-in-law was coming to visit,

1:06.5

and I was so proud of my little garden. Well, it wasn't even really a garden, but I was

1:12.7

gonna put in a garden. And I think it was my second year. I planted all these little seeds,

1:19.7

and it was a greens mix. And so I thought, okay, when he comes, I'm gonna serve him this beautiful

1:26.1

salad, and sure enough, you know, the little greens popped up, and I served him the greens when

1:31.6

he came to visit. But then, like a week after his visit, other stuff came up, and when I realized

1:38.2

what I had given him a wheat salad, it was just like, I don't even know when I fed him. I'm so glad

1:45.4

it was fine. Did he have a comment? I told him about it later, and he laughed, and he just said,

1:53.3

you know, I thought it was a little bitter, but I didn't want to say anything, and he was,

1:58.2

he was really nice about it. But yeah, I definitely, and I mean, I made a special dressing,

2:03.2

and I thought it was so fancy, and yeah, it turns out, you know, then a couple weeks later,

2:08.9

I'm like, whoa, these are really the greens I planted. This is what it's on the seed packet. What

2:13.6

did I serve him? And then I look around, and I see that it's like everywhere in the yard,

2:18.8

like out, and like, oh, it's like clover and personally, or something. I don't even know,

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