Welcome back everyone, Kevin is here on the Epic Gardening podcast.

We have Ariana Iapini, founder of the Birch Harbor Gardens.

She is an edible garden designer and a consultant.

So check her out in the podcast description.

So Ariana, we talked yesterday about building a meadow garden, interplanetary flowers within

the garden and a lot of those things will have an impact on what we're talking about today,

which is creating habitats for life in the garden.

So I was curious, how do you bucket these, this topic, like is there a way you approach

this that can help illuminate it for other people?

Absolutely.

So the world wildlife federation actually breaks it down into a few categories as far as

what is needed to create habitat.

And so that's food, water, shelter, and places to raise young.

And so I would add even to that a diversity of plants and plant life in general because

I think that just amps up the ecology of your growing space so much.

And so as far as food goes, you know, you have, I have a lot of plants growing.

I probably have 200 varieties of different things growing here.

And oftentimes we end up sharing some of that with nature, especially I'm seeing how

that is applying even more so this year.

Again, in our second year of growing here, I installed two Aspelier apple trees.

I have something like 36 strawberry plants, three fig trees, 20 some odd blueberry bushes,

raspberry bushes, blackberries, just a range of plants.

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