From First-Time Gardener to Garden Teacher
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Hear how Jill McSheehy went from a total beginner gardener to teaching other beginner gardeners how to start growing some of their own food!
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Jill McSheehy is the founder of Journey With Jill, and she’s the podcaster behind The Beginner’s Garden Podcast, and the author of the upcoming book, Vegetable Gardening for Beginners.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're kicking off this |
| 0:18.0 | week with a guest who has had me on her podcast multiple times actually so I'm really happy to have her |
| 0:27.0 | on mine. |
| 0:28.0 | We're talking with Jill McShee, she's the founder of Journey with Jill, she's the podcaster behind her podcast which is called |
| 0:34.3 | the Beginners Garden Podcast and actually tomorrow if you're listening to this |
| 0:38.8 | podcast the day that it releases her first book is coming out vegetable gardening for beginners. |
| 0:44.0 | So Jill it's really cool to have you on because I feel like I've already had you on just because |
| 0:47.9 | we've talked so many times. |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah, it's such a pleasure to be on here. |
| 0:51.6 | I love your podcast. It's an amazing resource for |
| 0:54.4 | Gardeners. |
| 0:55.4 | Awesome. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate that. And I think it's really cool because |
| 0:59.0 | it seems like you and I maybe more |
| 1:04.4 | overlap than other guests I've had on have more overlap in our origin story if you will so I thought it might be nice to kind of start out there |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, sounds good. Okay, cool so how did you kind of get into this whole world of becoming someone who teaches people how to grow |
| 1:16.2 | food? |
| 1:17.2 | It's a funny journey actually. |
| 1:19.7 | It's what I never thought that I would be on. |
| 1:22.2 | It started out when I was a full-time working mom. |
| 1:25.7 | I had a six-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter and I was working a lot, but I loved my job. |
| 1:32.1 | I worked for a Ford dealership as a business development manager and I just I really enjoyed |
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