Dream Big & Write it Down

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The dawn of Azure Farm began with fruit trees and has graduated to 26 to 30 raised beds. But Annette doesn’t recommend this many raised beds for beginners. In fact, starting small and working in phases is a better idea! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Pjst3M Botanical Interests Shop Homepage:https://growepic.co/45viFcw Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Z2isek EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/44z0b9Y Connect With Annette Thurmon: Annette Thurmon is a modern-day homesteader who lives with her husband, Jared, and their daughter Ava in the small town of Adairsville, Georgia. After years of city life, she sought a simpler way of living and moved to the country. There she cares for her organic garden and orchard, and animals which include alpacas, miniature donkeys, chickens, turkeys, bees, and more! She is self-taught and loves sharing with others what she has learned over the years. Her goal is to inspire others to live this lifestyle and share her daily adventures on social media - @azurefarm, her website - azurefarm.com, and the Azure Farm Podcast which she hosts with her husband. Website Instagram TikTok Pinterest 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you have started a garden, maybe you have some land, you want to get going, you know
0:06.9	why you want to do it, how do you actually put it into practice?
0:11.0	I mean, I think that's probably the biggest question facing a lot of folks listening.
0:15.2	Also myself, when I bought my effectively bare lot with a 1000 square foot home here in
0:21.0	San Diego, I just had, there's nothing there.
0:22.6	There was maybe a little quad tree, one apricot tree, and then everything else was like
0:26.6	a non-native species and dirt.
0:29.1	And so we have a net there been back on the show from Azure Farm.
0:33.2	You kind of went through the same thing.
0:34.8	I'm assuming when you bought your property and moved out into the country, right?
0:38.7	And so what was, just had a curiosity, like what was on the property when you started?
0:43.1	Yeah, so on the property, there was a well, which was amazing.
0:47.1	Nice.
0:48.1	That was kind of one of our criteria when we were looking for land, can we find somewhere
0:51.7	that has a well, or in that it's good water?
0:53.8	So once we tested it, we were like, yay, so we had a well and there was a barn.
1:00.0	And a septic tank.
1:01.1	So that's it.
1:03.0	No other basic infrastructure.
1:05.9	Yeah, yes, yes.
1:07.8	And so to kind of plan, you know, where a garden goes, it was, it was overwhelming.
1:14.7	You know, you got to really know where does the light hit, you know, how much sunlight
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