Encouraging the Next Generation to Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Ty knows that young people have plenty of energy and know how when it comes to getting into farming. Here he encourages them to do that, and discusses the programs his family potato farm enacts to support the local community. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage:https://growepic.co/3RgwQOl Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ExYU8n Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Ewfi9g EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3EAa78C Learn More: Potato Growth Stages: How Fast Do Potato Plants Grow? Connect With Tyler Heppell: Tyler Heppell is a 5th generation Potato farmer from British Columbia Canada. He grew up on the potato farm but when he left for University he said he was never going to come back. After 10 years he returned to the family farm with a goal to reduce food waste and educate others about how farming works. He now has over 600,000 followers online posting daily farming content. Instagram TikTok Website 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The average age of farmers, at least in America, seems to keep rising, which implies that
0:08.9	no one knew is coming into the field.
0:10.7	What we do have someone new on today's show, well, maybe new and old at the same time,
0:14.6	we have Tyler Heppel, potato tie, grew up on a potato farm tie, came back to the farm
0:20.3	after some time away in sales.
0:23.7	What's your perspective?
0:24.7	You have a really unique one.
0:26.1	You grew up in a fifth generation potato farm family, right, and now you're sort of
0:30.4	carrying legacy forward, but a lot of people don't do that.
0:33.3	Yeah.
0:34.3	Thanks, Kevin.
0:35.3	I would say I'm actually a little scared for the future to be fully honest with you.
0:38.6	You know, I saw a stat the other day that said the average age of the North American
0:43.2	farmer was 57 years old.
0:46.0	And I know I personally know many farmers that don't have the next generation support.
0:51.1	So it's kind of like what happens with that farm, and if that farm shuts down who's
0:56.3	picking up the slack to produce that food.
0:58.4	So I am a little scared, but I think that this generation, you know, people are age and
1:04.5	people even younger than us are going to have an insane opportunity to step up and have
1:09.7	some purpose with their life.
1:11.2	Because I really do think farming is, you know, there's good, there's bad, but there's
1:15.9	beautiful things.
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