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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Effects of COVID on Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We all know family and friends that got into gardening in the past year, but I was curious if Khaled saw the same thing happening at his farm up in Canada - today a farmer and a gardener riff on the changes we’ve seen in the market. Connect with Khaled Majouji: Khaled is known as The Plant Charmer online, and is the founder of In.Genius Farms. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Evac Gardening podcast my friends, I hope you are doing well and

0:17.3

your garden is thriving as we move into spring 2021.

0:21.1

Kevin is here and we are joined by Khaled, the plant charmer and the founder of Ingenious

0:27.0

Farms.

0:28.0

So I'm actually really curious since it is usually around a year since we have these conversations

0:32.4

Khaled.

0:33.4

A lot has changed in the last year, obviously last year this time, this is around the end

0:38.9

of March.

0:39.9

We were probably right in the beginning of a lockdown here in America, I don't know what

0:44.4

it was like in Canada where you're at, but you know, over the past year, what happened

0:49.0

on the farm?

0:50.0

Did you guys have to shut down or what went on?

0:53.3

What we actually did, like we spoke about in one of previous episodes, we were on a

0:57.4

path to moving the farms, we accepted that deal with the city and so we took apart the

1:01.6

entire farm and that was that was before actually the fall before that COVID.

1:06.2

So you know, fall was a 2019, yeah.

1:09.4

So fall 2019, so we didn't know COVID was going to hit so we put our stuff there.

1:13.4

And then what happened is I learned that my wife was pregnant.

1:17.0

Oh, congrats.

1:18.0

And yeah, dropping a ball like this, but yeah, I learned she was pregnant and we were moving

1:23.1

and the thing is we went into lockdown pretty much at the same time as you guys did.

1:27.0

And the family thing marched around there, but we weren't able to get any guarantees

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