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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ian McKenna is a 16 year old who has grown for over 8 years. He grows food and donates to food insecure families in the Austin, Texas area and has a ton to share with us this week.

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Ian McKenna is a youth hunger advocate, growing food for food insecure children and families since the age of 8.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the epic gardening podcast Kevin here and we have an awesome
0:18.0	guest this week who I got introduced to from my friend Deb over at Gardner's Supply Company.
0:24.2	So Ian McKenna is on the podcast today.
0:26.7	He's a youth hunger advocate and I think Ian it probably makes sense for me to let you
0:32.2	tell everyone what you're all about
0:34.1	because you have a pretty interesting story.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.6	So I have been growing gardens.
0:43.1	Originally I started just a small plum in the backyard of my house and I've grown to also expand to four different schools around Austin.
0:57.0	And also I have an acre of land
1:00.6	set aside for me by Austin orchards. So I have six gardens around Austin and I've been
1:08.1	growing and donating produce to people who are struggling with food insecurity for the past eight years and I've grown and donated
1:16.6	over 20,000 pounds.
1:18.6	Wow, 20,000?
1:20.6	Yeah.
1:21.6	Wow. And so you've been doing it for eight years, but how old are you now?
1:26.7	Right now I am 16.
1:27.7	Okay, so you've been doing it quite literally half of your entire life.
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:33.0	How did you get started as an eight year old in gardening?
1:36.0	I got started when I was 21 or 22, so you've got quite a head start on me.
1:40.0	Yeah, so, well, originally my mom taught me how to garden since I was four years old.
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