Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today we are back with some folks

from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Today we have Adam Wallace. He's the natural resource

manager for the Mills River location of Sierra Nevada. So Adam, it's great to have you

on. I feel like some at some point I'm going to interview everyone from Sierra Nevada.

Well, thanks for having me, Kevin. This is kind of a fun project and I'm grateful to be a

part of it. Sure. So I think we should start out maybe by giving a quick overview of what

does a natural resource manager do and sort of like what is your responsibility out at

Mills River? I guess I simply put me and my team are in charge of basically everything

outdoors. When Sierra Nevada moved out here to North Carolina, they bought quite a large

piece of property, about 220 acres, and you know, anytime someone has that large of a property,

they accept the responsibility of caring for it and managing it. So that's basically

what we do and we spend a lot of our time with a landscape maintenance piece, a lot of

our time on agriculture side of things and a lot of time on the forestry side of things.

Got it. So we take that stewardship seriously. Cool. Cool. And today we're going to be talking

about something that I think a lot of home gardeners are doing. Maybe not quite this way. We're

talking about composting compost tea, but you're doing something called aerated static composting

out there. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great way. It's a great thing. I think it's actually a great

opportunity for folks who don't have the necessary space to do large quantities of composting.

This type of an aerated static pile composting system works well in small spaces.

So yeah, really simply put together and I think most folks can do it in their own backyard

if they're interested. Cool. And so as a beginner, let's say I hear aerated static composting,

how does that relate to a hot composting system where you're turning it every so often?

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