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Wild Ideas Worth Living

Culinary Farming and Backyard Gardening with Courtney Guerra

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Courtney Guerra is a culinary farmer who loves the intimacy of planting seeds, watching them sprout, and harvesting rich, colorful produce. She's grown food for some of America's top restaurants.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We often talk about outdoor adventures that lean toward athletic endeavors like hiking,

0:09.4

running, and swimming.

0:11.3

But there are ways to enjoy nature that are gentler, slower, and a little dirtier, like

0:17.2

gardening.

0:18.3

If you ask me, the best food is the stuff that comes straight from the earth.

0:22.9

Not only can gardening be therapeutic, but it's also rewarding to grow your own food from

0:28.0

seed.

0:30.7

Courtney Gera is a culinary farmer who loves the intimacy of planting seeds, watching

0:36.1

them sprout, and harvesting rich colorful produce.

0:40.1

She's grown food for some of America's top restaurants.

0:43.6

Now Courtney focuses on the positive impact of gardening in her own community.

0:48.6

I'm Shelby Stenger, and this is Wild Ideasworth Living, an REI co-op studios production.

0:57.2

Working with the earth and the outdoors have always been a big part of Courtney's life.

1:02.1

She spent a lot of her 20s outside playing beach volleyball professionally.

1:06.9

After retiring from the sport, Courtney took some time to find her footing, and eventually

1:11.8

decided to try culinary school.

1:17.1

Courtney Gera, welcome to Wild Ideasworth Living.

1:19.6

Shelby, thank you so much for having me today.

1:23.0

You've had a wild, wild career.

1:25.1

Not just one wild idea, but a few.

1:27.1

I'd love to just start with how you went from being this amazing beach volleyball player

1:32.5

to having a lifestyle around gardening and culinary arts.

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