Gardening With a Baby

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Even before her baby was born, Kaylan navigated gardening with a baby. At first it was a whirlwind of emotions, both positive and negative. Today, she has managed to fill her garden with stimulating plants her child can enjoy as well. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/41cyzHH Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3MXNHmf Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49MfIa2 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3sOoB2l Connect With Kaylan Segev: Kaylan is a Bay Area native and budding gardener. Her passion for planting began when she started growing tomatoes in her studio apartment bathroom while living in San Francisco during shelter-in-place. Today, she gardens on 13,000 square feet of fertile land nestled in the hills of Oakland, CA (zone 10a), where she cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, and bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants in raised beds, grow bags, and in the ground. Her latest project, a dreamy chicken coop, is currently being constructed with chickens on the way in spring 2024. Instagram Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.6	The only thing I have not grown yet is my own child. Maybe on the way, you never know. But we have Kalins I have on the show, an epic community member and a friend and actually an epic ambassador now,
0:25.0	Kaylin, but you mentioned yesterday that you have a newborn baby, four and a half,
0:30.1	five months old, and I'm curious how that impacted your relationship to the
0:36.0	garden and then maybe even how you think about raising your child with
0:41.0	exposure to the garden which is something I didn't grow up with, right?
0:44.2	So I would have loved it and, you know, obviously my child will have that in the future.
0:48.8	So I'm kind of curious how that looks for you.
0:50.8	Yeah, same.
0:51.8	No, I appreciate that. it's cool to see people who grew up gardening
0:55.8	or like their mothers you know you know I'm a little envious with that because I
0:59.4	didn't grow up like that and I similar to you like look forward to that you know exposing her to nature and so she is yeah four and a half five months old at this point so I'm still very new very tired very much
1:15.4	figuring it all out and I will say that you know having the garden as an activity as an escape during the pregnancy was incredibly
1:26.4	significant like there's a lot of anxiety there's a lot of unknown and so
1:32.3	gardening while pregnant was something I did all the way up to
1:36.7	delivery like you know it got harder and harder to bend over but I learned how to like
1:41.3	bend with my knees and use like you know different kind of like tools and techniques out there and
1:50.1	You know I was using the garden all the way up into delivery in that my water actually broke while I was out in the garden.
1:58.0	And so like we've joked about like planting a special tree in the area where that took place.
2:03.9	I think so, why not?
2:04.9	Mythologize it.
2:05.9	Create some lore.
2:06.9	Exactly, totally.
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