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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Bee and Sheep-Friendly Orchard Management

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Instead of spraying all sorts of nonsense all over your orchard, learn some techniques Adam Wallace of Sierra Nevada is using on their fledgling orchard to help control pests Connect With Adam Wallace: Adam Wallace is the Natural Resource Manager for Sierra Nevada at the Mills River location. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

0:16.2

We are joined again by Adam Wallace.

0:18.9

He is the natural resource manager for Sierra Nevada Brewing at the Mills River location

0:23.5

in North Carolina.

0:24.5

So, we've talked about a couple different ways that they're generating compost, making

0:28.6

use of that organic matter and then repurposing it, putting it back into the landscape or back

0:33.2

into their seed starting or propagation.

0:35.8

And today, we're going to talk about something that's very much on my mind right now because

0:40.8

I'm building out a micro orchard of my own here at the Epic Homestead.

0:44.5

So you guys have an orchard of sorts out there, right?

0:47.6

We do.

0:48.6

It's brand new.

0:49.6

We just installed it this past spring.

0:52.6

So we're not experts by any means, but we're learning an awful lot as we're going along

0:57.6

here.

0:58.6

It's been a fun journey.

0:59.6

Yeah.

1:00.6

I would say the exact same thing.

1:01.6

I'm behind you a little bit.

1:02.6

I can look at my window right now and look at about, I don't know, 25 different fruit trees

1:07.4

that I've gotten in containers that are sort of awaiting their final resting places.

1:11.2

I figure out my landscape plan here, but yeah, it's a really fun journey.

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