Welcome back to the Beat. I am Jacques from Jacques in the garden and today we have a special

guest on Emily Grohovsky from Cedar Hill Gardens. Why don't you introduce us

where you're from where you're growing, what zone you're in, and what you're all about?

Thank you, yes. So I am in Central Mississippi in Madison, Madison specifically.

I, at Garden in zone 8, 8B, specifically,

since the restructuring of everything.

So we just finished planting for summer.

And I grew up in Mississippi and I knew very little about gardening but kind of watched my grandparents from afar as I grew up and I think I cared more about the pool than I did about the garden so I didn't learn a whole lot but maybe through

osmosis I learned what was possible I think and so yeah I own a business

here called Cedar Hill Gardens. We're a kitchen garden company

specifically and we do turnkey garden installations, but the difference is

we come back and we teach our clients how to actually grow food.

Because what's the point if you have a garden but you can't grow anything in it?

Yeah, and actually I think a lot of people think like, oh, I don't know how to garden, I don't have green thumb, I don't have any experience with this, like, but now I have a garden, so you're actually there to help them through that process and actually gain something

along the way like so that they can take over on their own and actually really quick before we get into like teaching people

how to actually grow a green thumb. Can you define like what a

kitchen garden means for anyone who's wondering like the different breakdowns?

Sure. So a kitchen garden is in my case a raised bed doesn't have to be a raised bed but that's what we do because of our our soil situation here but it is some type of garden right outside of your kitchen door in your backyard where it could grow vegetables and herbs and if you have the space for it, maybe throw some very bushes fruit trees, things like that.

But I'm just excited that I'm hearing the term

Kitchen Garden, even outside of my business,

I'm reading about it.

I've seen it everywhere,

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