Chickens Do More Than Lay Eggs

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Chickens are great egg-layers, but they’re also excellent pest controllers, and garden fertilizers. You can turn 95% of your kitchen waste into eggs quickly too! In this episode, Jordan and AJ cover all the ways chicken-keeping benefits the growing space. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QvBreu Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3WpBlJd Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3WqUk6e EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3Wx3Zb4 Learn More. 14 Ways Backyard Chicken Save Your Garden and the WorldConnect With Jordan Barnes:Jordan: Jordan is the co-founder and creative force behind Coop. She brings an unconventional wealth of expertise to the world of agtech, with Coop's mission to blend innovation with tradition, making high-tech farming both accessible and delightful. You can usually find her whipping up gourmet meals for her favorite hens, 4 Rhode Island Reds, with a spicy ranch water in hand.AJ Forsythe: AJ is the co-founder and original visionary behind coop, on a mission building the world's largest decentralized food production network. His journey from beekeeping to winemaking led to founding the world's largest on-demand repair and trade-in network, and earning a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. His passion for chickens started accidentally when he rescued a chicken from a meat market in LA and brought it back to Cal Poly on the train. Instagram Website Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most people get hens to get eggs, but as we've talked about in prior episodes,
0:19.2	as I talked about over on the epic homesteading channel, they do so much more for yourself and also for your
0:24.2	garden if you're someone who grows. So we have A.J. and Jordan back on the show. They are the
0:28.8	co-founder of Coop who create a really cool smart chicken coopoe among many other things and we will talk about some of that but you know for you guys I'm curious
0:38.2	What's your level of gardening right now? I have some rosemary plants that so apparently chickens don't like
0:48.0	rosemary. My chickens love it. So I chose rosemary because I love Rosemary, I put it in a ton and I
0:55.2	love Green Onion and apparently they are they allegedly don't like Green
0:58.8	Onion. My girls are a little they're a little sassy I think they just do it to kind of push back on me and they ate
1:05.4	all the rosemary but it was doing really great. We have at what else you've done at
1:10.8	your house a day you've done tomatoes I have I have like tomatoes right now I have tomatoes
1:15.3	basil I'm trying to grow giant sunflowers and I have no use for
1:19.8	him aside from I think it's like super cool and funny.
1:23.7	So I planted a bunch of sunflowers,
1:26.8	and then I have one watermelon plant that produces one melon.
1:31.8	A random apartment right there.
1:34.0	Hey, you know, I grew giant sunflowers.
1:37.0	This guy we had on the show a while back,
1:40.0	he holds like a couple dozen West Virginia state records on giant vegetables and so he's
1:46.0	like and he'll text me like every so often he'd be like oh just got another one
1:49.9	Rue de Vegas like it's me know, it's really cool.
1:53.4	But anyways, he sent me some giant sunflower seeds,
1:56.1	like, ideally at genetic optimal,
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