Gardening Side Business

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Kris has a consulting business, called Grow a Little Garden where she teaches people to garden in raised beds. Jacques truly enjoys teaching people how to grow food at home with his Jacques in the Garden channel. Both of them love their vocations, in and out of Epic Gardening, because growing food is such an important and empowering skill to have. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3vRiEDo Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3U7CnXn Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Qbtkn1 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49DZsqo Learn More: 15 Fruit Trees to Plant this SpringConnect With Jacques and Kris:Kris Moriarty and Jacques Lyakov are great gardeners, and some of the first Epic Gardening team members. As the resident Garden Hermit and the Director of Customer Experience at Epic, both have the skills to grow a lush and vibrant garden full of food for themselves and their families. They teach other people to grow too. Kris even does this in her side consulting business, called Grow A Lil Garden, where she helps people build their own gardens. With a practical understanding of gardening, as well as a knack for flavor, Jacques and Kris are taking over the pod this week to share their knowledge and skills with The Beet Podcast listeners. Kris’ Website Kris’ Instagram Jacques’ YouTube Jacques’ Instagram Jacques’ Website Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More Resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of people I've been interested in starting a little side business regarding
0:16.9	gardening and actually we are back here on day two with Chris to talk about
0:20.8	how she was able to spin up a side gig basically consulting and
0:25.1	teaching people how to grow vegetables at home right? Yeah I love it it's it's such a
0:29.8	fulfilling thing to do. I when I I started gardening, you know, we talked yesterday and I was talking to, I made every possible mistake.
0:38.0	I used the wrong soil mix.
0:40.0	I planted the plants too deep, I planted plants too shallow, I used too much the wrong fertilizer.
0:44.8	If there was a mistake to be made, I made it for sure the first season.
0:47.8	And the good thing is though that you made those mistakes, but then you learned how to actually fix them,
0:52.1	because I think a lot of people, I mean,
0:54.1	I've made plenty of mistakes in the other
0:55.8	for sure, whether that's choosing the wrong soil or not.
0:58.2	But moving forward is like the important part,
1:00.7	not getting demoralized, and that's probably what you help out a lot with.
1:04.0	Well I honestly think that mistakes are a blessing in the garden because that is really how you learn.
1:08.3	I mean no one makes the same mistake quite you just don't like there's too much at stake.
1:11.8	Yeah sometimes I do but but I I
1:16.2	started helping friends who wanted to start gardens during that same time.
1:19.4	And so and well there's so much conflicting information out there
1:23.7	and people really don't know what to do.
1:25.3	And so one of the things that I kind of specialize in,
1:29.5	I have a little company called Grow a Little Garden,
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