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Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Whether you boast a small windowsill herb garden, a thriving hydroponic system or something in between, growing your own food is great for your well-being. And when you grow what you eat? You also reduce the environmental harm that's incurred by industrial agricultural methods; you eliminate food miles, too. Kevin Espiritu built a modern homestead on a very modest urban lot; he also happens to help millions of home growers take their gardening efforts to the next level. On today's show Kevin outlines the ways in which each of us — even those who can't keep anything alive! — can grow big(ger) in 2024.   Here's a preview: [4:00] Why grow stuff? Food miles, nutrition, and industrialized food  [15:00] The more you grow, the better you grow: Remembering the gardener's lesson [19:00] Are those fancy-shmancy hydroponic garden towers worth it? Could you build one yourself? [22:00] Can't keep anything alive? Start with sprouts! [27:00] The Number One question expert home growers ask themselves, and often   Resources mentioned: Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech Backyard Homestead Episode #139: Microgreens   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the

0:06.4

sunscreen of course, you name it, I'm fitting it in before Labor Day. Wherever you're off to this summer, know that you're taking your microbiome with you. And seeds

0:17.3

D.S. 1 daily symbiotic benefits your gut, your skin, your heart in just two capsules a day. Now if you've been around here for a while you know that I pay close attention to what I put in my body I do my d darndest, to avoid synthetic ingredients, and that's why I trust seed.

0:37.0

Support your gut this summer with seeds, DS01, daily symbiotic.

0:41.8

Go to seed.com

0:43.0

sustainable and use code 25 sustainable to get 25%

0:48.0

off your first month.

0:49.0

That's 25% off your first month of seeds, DS01, daily symbiotic at seed.com slash sustainable,

0:58.3

code 25 sustainable.

1:00.8

Well, hello my friends and welcome back.

1:05.0

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 429 of sustainable

1:09.6

minimalist.

1:10.9

This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.

1:15.0

On today's show, I have a goal and my goal is to get you wherever you are at in your growing, your own food journey, wherever wherever you are at and help you take it up just one little tiny

1:28.4

Notch growing our own food or at least something, growing something is a vital self-sufficient skill that is,

1:37.8

thanks to our industrialized food system and all the environmental consequences that come with it, that self-sufficient skill of being able to grow stuff,

1:47.6

we collectively are losing that skill. And so today, wherever you're at and your growing journey,

1:53.0

whether you can't keep a potted plant alive,

1:55.6

whether you have a bustling garden outside,

1:58.8

wherever you, or somewhere in between, wherever you're at,

2:01.6

my goal today is to get you motivated, inspired, and

2:05.3

specifically give you the how to grow slightly more. So to help me do all that is

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