Welcome to the Cannabis cultivation and science podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussie of KIS Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the

cutting edge of organic growing from a science-based perspective and drawn top experts from around

the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. Today we are honored to be interviewing

Steve Solomon all the way from Tasmania. Steve is the author of numerous books, most notably

gardening west of the Cascades and the

intelligent gardener. Can we start off today talking about your own personal journey and how you

came to write The Intelligent Gardner, which focuses on soil remineralization and nutrient density?

You know, you're asking me to tell you about my whole life. And there's not enough time to do that. So I'm going to condense things as best

I can. And if I wander, you stop me. So I wanted to live a life where I worked as little

as possible. And I conceived the idea that if I could produce as much of my own stuff as I could, and

I wouldn't have to earn money or pay taxes on it, and I might have a much better lifestyle.

So we moved from Los Angeles, sold the business, about five acres in Oregon that looked

real pretty to us.

I knew, because I'd read all the organic gardening literature. I had been subscribing to organic

gardening magazine and I've read their books and I knew this was the truth that I could

take any old clay pit or gravel heap and turn it into a garden of eaten as long as I put

enough compost into the ground and maybe some lime.

So I found this beautiful green hillside in Oregon in the springtime and I could afford it.

It was just five acres of bare land with some little Douglas fir tree self-seating on, and enough that was flat enough that I could put in a

garden and moved on to it. And I put in a big garden and started to eat out of it. And then one

thing after another happened, and a few years later, I found myself in the seed business, not knowing how to do it, not knowing how to make any money at it.

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