What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We have a really cool guest, a fellow

youtuber this week, Silaway Olivera, and his YouTube channel is called Suburban Homestead, so you know it's right up my alley being an urban gardener myself

It's a really fantastic channel for smaller space people interested in sort of a homesteading and creative gardening approach

So I figured I would bring him on the podcast this week sort of a homesteading and creative gardening approach.

So I figured I would bring him on the podcast this week.

The first thing I think we'll do, Silaway,

is maybe just tell us a little bit more about yourself

and how you got started and why you do what you do what you do all that fun stuff.

Of course. I started gardening probably well seriously when I was a teenager

but I've always been interested in plants ever since I was a little child.

I remember my mother in Brazil, taking care of African violets and

Poso's and other tropical plants in our front.

It wasn't a garden, it was more of a garage

because we didn't really have a yard then.

And I was fascinated by that for some reason. And ever since then I've always felt that I've been cheated out of life for not having been born in a farm.

So that's where I got to to eventually be able to garden in a

slightly bigger space and the current house we are in it's about a quarter of an

acre but I only really garden the front yard really because that's where most of the

sun is right and all the other space is basically wasted and well it's not wasted because there are amazing trees there that clean the air and clean the water etc but for food production I can't do much other

than if I were to cut the trees but I don't think that would be necessarily helpful so.

Right right and then, today's episode is kind of about breaking the old-fashioned gardening mold, which I

certainly think you do with the stuff I've seen on your channel, and I would say I probably do a bit of the stuff I've seen on your channel and I would say I probably do a bit of myself just almost because of the space that that I grow in I'm in the front yard as well because that's myself

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