What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by

Melissa Norris. She is a fifth generation homesteader who loves to help people use organic

methods to grow their own food. She has her own

podcast called Pioneering Today and she also has a website which I'll link in the

podcast description along with her upcoming book The Family Garden Plan. Now yesterday

we talked about planning a mini orchard, getting your feet

wet in the world of growing fruit trees, but of course there are some other fruits that we can

grow that don't necessarily grow on trees, right?

So Melissa, it's probably my favorite type of fruit would be really any bury at all.

And so I'm curious, your strategies for growing berries in a

smaller orchard. Yes I love berries. One of the reasons I love berries is of

course there's the eating factor. The other reason I love berries is because you get

fruit production much, much faster than you do when it comes to an orchard. Now I still think

orchards are valuable from yesterday's episode, but berries depending on what you pick and the

variety you are going to be getting fruit in a decent amount that very first year.

So depending on the type of berries,

blueberries specifically,

they do require a certain amount of chill hours.

We mentioned that when we were talking about fruit trees and that's

that temperature again that's 48 degrees or lower Fahrenheit for a certain number of

hours during the winter months in order for them to produce fruit. But there's many different

varieties within the blueberries and there's a lot of them available out there that

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