What is up everyone?

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Riley Brock is

back from Imperfect Foods. Perfect Foods is a grocery delivery service that is

focused on building a better food system.

Links are in the description and they have been this whole week if you want to give it a try.

I've been using it for six weeks now I think and I've been really loving it. It's been awesome. So that being said it

brings us to kind of the core of the whole model which is the supply chain or

food and other goods and I think this year especially we've discovered I have some

first-hand knowledge of it because I also sell products myself and and my supply

chain from the raised beds that I sell is extremely strained.

Just it's either that, it's either just tell people it's going to be a long time until they

get them, which is how we've been doing it, or sacrifice the quality of the materials, which we're

not going to do.

And so, you know know it's just an

interesting little dilemma that we found ourselves in and I'm sure you guys have seen

quite a bit this year with with COVID going on. Yeah you know it's been a real wake-up call, I think, for everybody this year with COVID and, you know, obviously there were kind of humorous memes about it early on with toilet paper, but the reality is realizing our supply chains are fragile is a pretty kind of humbling

existential moment for all of us.

You know, I think supermarkets lull us into the sense of complacency when it comes to seasonality.

You know, we take for granted how far that strawberry has

traveled when you're buying it in February, for example.

So I think this year was a real wake-up call and for us working in food, it was definitely, we're kind of on the front lines of it you know I think

one one interesting anecdote I'll share is that you know when you remember the whole baking

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