Growing Cocktails
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One of the coolest business models in local farming I’ve heard of is Seed to Shaker, a mocktail and cocktail stand where herbs and ingredients are grown and turned into delicious drinks on-site.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.7 | podcast. I'm Kevin and we are joined again by Brandon Youst, the |
| 0:19.8 | founder of Foodstrap Farmer and the founder of the Urban Farm Academy. |
| 0:24.1 | Now we teased this model, this local farming model a little bit earlier in the week. |
| 0:30.2 | The Seed to Shaker idea where I believe it was like a two or four square foot system that you were using |
| 0:37.2 | right to grow cocktail herbs? Yep, eight square foot so two foot by four foot. |
| 0:41.9 | Two by four yeah perfect. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay cool so can we talk a little bit about this because I had an idea a while ago |
| 0:48.0 | that I have yet to move on but it's just kind of filed away and I wanted to do a |
| 0:51.6 | YouTube series called Urban Mixology but spelled H-E-R-B where you're just you know your |
| 0:57.2 | herb bed is shifted a little bit towards more of the cocktail style herbs and you just make some drinks from it. |
| 1:04.0 | Yep, I mean the the bar industry is huge people love |
| 1:08.5 | cocktails and just one way to have to start a farm business in the frameworks that we teach in the Urban Farm Academy map, |
| 1:18.0 | minimum agricultural products, starting really small, starting with a simple idea in Farm Fusion growing something |
| 1:25.0 | and turning it into something that people won. |
| 1:28.1 | One of the businesses that spun out of that was Seed to Shaker. And there was someone here in North Carolina that I was |
| 1:35.1 | working with, you still work with. It's just the whole COVID thing. You know, this was kind of like |
| 1:40.0 | a restaurant or a rooftop design and no one's allowed out of their house as we record this so it's just sort of on pause right now but this is a person who didn't have a yard didn't have anywhere they can farm, but really wanted to grow things. |
| 1:54.8 | But they also had a family, they also have other business interests, like they have an actual |
| 1:59.4 | job. |
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