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Welcome to the Beat Podcast. I am your host today, Jacques Laikov, aka The Garden Hermit. And today we have a very special guest on. It's Galena Burkampus from Microflower Farm. And she grows amazing flowers on a small scale and has an interesting story of how

she actually, I believe you started as a gardener. So why don't you tell us where you're at,

what your story is with gardening, and what you like to grow? Okay, sounds good. Thanks for having

me. I get this question a lot, but I didn't grow up growing flowers or vegetables apart from like, you know, hey kids,

let's have a garden and like throw some seeds in the ground.

So we did try that.

The problem was, though, is that we lived in a forest.

So minimal sun, nothing like really succeeded.

So I grew up. I was an adult got married and i couldn't if even told you what a zinia was like if you had stuck that in front of my face i would have been like

no clue don't know what that is um i knew what roses were and that was like the extent of this is my flower knowledge right now

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