Digging into the Garden's Healing Powers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Kaylan went from growing tomatoes by the UV rays from the bathroom skylight to owning a property full of both cultivated and wild plants. How it all happened is detailed right in this podcast episode. Here, you can get a sense of how the garden became a healing space for Kaylan. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SZDB8m Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3sItudn Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Rhvwue EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46wS7Hy Connect With Kaylan Segev: Kaylan is a Bay Area native and budding gardener. Her passion for planting began when she started growing tomatoes in her studio apartment bathroom while living in San Francisco during shelter-in-place. Today, she gardens on 13,000 square feet of fertile land nestled in the hills of Oakland, CA (zone 10a), where she cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, and bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants in raised beds, grow bags, and in the ground. Her latest project, a dreamy chicken coop, is currently being constructed with chickens on the way in spring 2024. Instagram Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to be here.
0:02.0	Welcome back, my friends, to Gardening Podcast. We have a long time
0:16.4	Instagram gardening friend Kalin Segev on the show. We started talking probably around the pandemic time I think
0:25.5	Caitlin and you sent me an email a couple weeks ago maybe and said like hey
0:30.5	would you ever just want someone who's been a fan of the content,
0:33.8	and he's a big gardener on the show.
0:36.0	And I was like, yeah, go ahead and come on.
0:37.7	Like that sounds awesome.
0:38.6	You're up in San Francisco.
0:40.3	Cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants,
0:44.8	which we will talk about in this week of episodes.
0:47.5	And then you also just got your own chicken coop, which I kind of want to hear about,
0:51.7	but it's great to have you on the show.
0:53.0	Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, we started, well I started following you in
0:58.1	20 when I became a gardener and at that time I lived in San Francisco in a tiny one bedroom studio with no yard.
1:05.7	I would put succulents mostly out on my fire escape and every time the landlord drove down
1:11.7	Guerrero she would call us and say hey take your
1:14.2	plants off the firescape it's a hazard and then we actually moved to
1:19.0	Oakland in the end of 2020 and so now I'm on my own land I get to plant wherever whenever
1:26.8	however but I'm very excited to be here and I'm very excited to talk about the chicken coop too.
1:35.0	Yeah.
1:36.0	Well it's funny because you're on the same exact amount of square feet that I am.
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