Grow a Cocktail Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Victoria Pardo Uzitas used to have a cocktail column under the pen name Libation Lady. Naturally, she has recipes in her back pocket for some of the tastiest out there. Hear her tips and tricks for increasing and infusing flavors in delicious beverages straight from the garden. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bqqUZy Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3XPjHiz Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4eMVrnu EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3zieky7 Learn More:Are Galvanized Steel Garden Beds Safe?Connect With Victoria Pardo Uzitas:Victoria Pardo Uzitas is a distinguished Food Scientist with a remarkable track record of launching thousands of products, for hundreds of brands throughout the world. Having worked at Global Fortune 100 Food Companies, she is currently a Managing Partner at Ubiquity Biz, a Soup to Nuts boutique agency based in San Diego. She began growing her own food in 2000. Driven by her belief that "food can transform lives," Victoria finds her volunteer work at Kitchens for Good, a local nonprofit, exceptionally rewarding. Linkedin Ubiquity Biz Kitchen for Good Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the beak for episode four with Victoria and today we're going to be
0:17.4	having some fun because we're talking about delicious drinks garden
0:20.8	cocktails and fusions shrubs everything in between and a little bit of safety in there as well so I think you've had a long history of making very interesting cocktails so why don't you kick it up?
0:32.0	Yes, well I had one of my bucket list items have always been
0:36.6	when I first became a food scientist 26 years ago
0:39.6	was to have a cocktail column.
0:41.2	And this is when people read magazines in print. And I was lucky enough. have a
0:45.0	cocktail column and this is when people read magazines in print and I was lucky enough to have one under the pen name
0:47.4	Libation lady. Because of that I just got to explore a little bit more of trends so one of the things that I my
0:56.4	specific type of food science is I look at research and develop what's the next
1:01.7	trend in food.
1:04.0	And this was, oh gosh, maybe 10 years ago, over 10 years ago,
1:08.8	and I had mentioned before the boom of Kambucha,
1:12.0	that Hart Kambucha's, we're going to be on trend and same with trucks
1:17.6	in making anything raw, fermented, really good for gut health.
1:22.6	We're seeing a lot more GI diseases on the incline.
1:27.0	And these are all items that we're going to continue to grow.
1:30.2	But shrubs, it's great to have in your fridge at all times.
1:33.4	By the way this is kept in my outdoor fridge
1:35.8	as it ferments.
1:37.8	Okay.
1:38.8	They do tend to have a release of carbon.
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