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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Easiest and Hardest Parts of Starting an Urban Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is part 5 of the 5-part interview with Michael Bell. Michael is a teacher, Texan, competitive bodybuilder...and an urban farmer! In this episode he talks about the surprisingly easy parts of starting an urban farm as well as the things that gave him a much harder time than he expected. We also talk about his plans for the future. Reach out to Michael Bell mbell971@yahoo.com Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the final episode of the five-part series with Michael Bell.

0:06.0

This episode is wrapping up the conversation that I had with Michael and we're talking just about

0:11.6

Some of the easiest things that he encountered when he was starting his urban farm.

0:15.2

Basically what was easier than expected and then some of the things that were much harder than expected.

0:20.4

And we just close it out with some of his plans for the future. So it's a fascinating wrap up. I really

0:26.3

appreciated being able to talk to Michael. And I hope you enjoyed it as well. And if you did,

0:31.7

definitely let me know. And the way you can let me

0:33.5

know is leave a review on iTunes and let me know what you thought about this series and

0:37.8

the podcast as a whole and what I'll do is I will read out your review on the podcast and so you can bury a question

0:44.6

in there I'll definitely tackle the question I'll give you a shout out as well and

0:47.9

that's a good way to let me know what you thought about this content and what you

0:51.3

think about content going forward so So without further do, let's get into the

0:55.3

final episode. I figured let's get a little practical. Let's talk a little bit about how are you, what's your approach on the farm? It's a small farm. How are you planning what you want to grow and you're backing your dates out and doing all that sort of stuff? Because I know at least for me and for other people that

1:13.2

are just growing for themselves sometimes that planning can just get a little

1:16.7

little hairy and a little out of control so it'd be interesting to see how you

1:20.7

tackled it. That's the hardest thing that I found to do is to plan.

1:29.0

I didn't grow anything.

1:30.0

I literally shut the farm down July 31st because it got over 100

1:34.4

degrees and everything just it was just too hard to grow and I needed a break and I

1:39.8

was wanting to clear more land so I just shut everything down and I worked all of August

1:44.4

getting ready for September 1st to start growing again and I told my customers so I

1:49.2

thought immediately my salad mix you know that that's my bread and butter. You know, if you can get people

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