Gardening in the Pandemic

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What has the recent explosion in gardening interest meant to society as a whole? Will we all stick with this gardening thing, or is it just because we’re bored and stuck at home? Robert Strauss and I discuss. Connect With Robert Strauss: Robert Strauss is a rooftop gardener based in Barcelona, Spain who I met while traveling. He’s got 8 years of experience growing on rooftops and you can find him on Instagram at @thefarmerontheroof. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:02.0	What's up?
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0:10.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Kevin here and we're joined again by Robert
0:18.4	Strauss, the farmer on the roof and I think we all know by now Robert there's quite a bit of stress on the system in all walks of life
0:26.9	but also in the world of gardening everyone's out of stock pretty much on everything including myself like I'm out of stock on my book
0:33.4	continually I'm out of stock on the birdies rates beds that I sell my friends who
0:38.3	run different gardening companies are out of stock on seeds and such and I'm
0:42.1	wondering if you're seeing that in Barcelona or just what are your thoughts on that?
0:47.2	Yeah, let me start out Kevin with just me and the pandemic and gardening a little bit.
0:54.3	We were starting to get really conscious of it like most people in mid-February and then Spain locked down in
0:59.8	about I think it was the 14th of March. So I'm a guy I like to be out and about go to the gym and all of that
1:06.4	but very fortunately I was not caught in a small home the way many people have in Barcelona.
1:14.0	You know, a lot of people are living with their families in Barcelona
1:16.0	and flats that are 500 square feet,
1:19.0	really tiny by US standards.
1:21.0	But Nina and I, we had the garden to go to. So while other people were going
1:26.8	stir crazy, we only had to go upstairs. And that was wonderful.
1:32.6	What I think the pandemic also brings out
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