Growing Chickpeas at Home

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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If you are in the market for a good companion plant, chickpeas and lentils may be for you! With the exception of a few crops, chickpeas and lentils can be an amazing companion plant. Sara Mader gives us the inside scoop on why the Palouse Brand Farm grows the chickpea variety that they do and tips and tricks for a bountiful harvest. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th and enter through Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time. A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st. Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for farm-to-table products. Palouse Brand was created out of this need and conversation, and since has been able to reach consumers across the United States with fresh family farmed non-GMO grains and legumes. Sara also wanted to run her company differently and sought to create an alternative, flexible work environment for women in our rural communities, that provides time and space for both family and work. This platform has transpired into a predominantly female led company, with women running both the behind the scenes work as well as the packaging line. Palouse Brand Lentils Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In today's episode of Let's Learn How to Grow Plants that Kevin has struggled to grow.
0:17.0	We are talking about chickpeas with Sarah Mater of Palus brand and I know you said you're
0:21.9	moving to a five crop rotation Sarah and I'm curious where does chickpeas slot in?
0:28.8	Sure, so ours is gonna so so we fit them in with winter wheat. So we our rotation is going winter wheat spring wheat
0:38.1	a legume
0:40.1	barley
0:42.1	and
0:43.1	then another legume and
0:45.1	so when I say legume it can be a lentil it could be a chickpea it could be a green pea it could be kind of
0:52.9	any
0:53.9	any legume will help break the cycle yeah got it okay because because yes you're getting the yield out of that
1:00.9	and you can of course sell the crop but also you get some of those soil benefits that legumes offer you get soil benefits and it also disrupts past cycles
1:09.9	so that that wheat
1:11.9	if you grow wheat on wheat on wheat on wheat you're gonna have you know a problem looks like Hessian fly
1:16.9	and so you have to break it up you have to break up your cycles
1:20.9	got it okay cool and then when it comes to types I know you know we talked about the different types of legumes that you guys offer are lentils excuse me with chickpeas
1:30.9	what are what's a good one if I want to just grow it at home
1:34.9	Okay, we've tried several chickpeas varieties and we have favorite we have a favorite and we grow one for specific reasons so are
1:42.9	the chickpeas we sell in our bag are what's called a cabuli Sierra chickpea they're a little bit larger chickpea mainly
1:50.9	straight out of the Middle East I mean we get comments saying hey I'm from Lebanon
1:55.9	these taste exactly like they do back home and so people love the Sierra chickpea we've tried other chickpeas and what you we found in our area
2:05.9	we tried a new variety a few years ago it's supposed to grow a larger chickpea and
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