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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing in 3,200 Milk Crates in Manhattan

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What if I told you there's a garden in Manhattan on some of the most expensive real estate in the country? Better yet, that they're growing with 3,200 individual milk crates for a celebrity-chef owned restaurant? Well...it's real. And I went there. Watch the full video tour here. Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I am fresh-faced from a trip to New York.

0:07.6

So I was there for the last five days. I think I mentioned it on a couple of the earlier

0:11.5

episodes. And so a couple of the earlier episodes.

0:12.6

And so a few of the episodes this week,

0:14.2

I'm gonna talk about some of my learnings,

0:16.2

some things that I learned on my trip

0:19.2

that I think you guys would really enjoy hearing about.

0:22.0

And we're gonna kick it off with a total surprise.

0:25.2

I was out in New York for a better homes and gardens event,

0:29.4

sort of like connecting a bunch of gardening bloggers

0:31.8

and home decor bloggers, really a lot of gardening bloggers and home decor bloggers,

0:33.5

really a lot of fun.

0:35.0

And that was the main reason I flew out,

0:36.7

but I wanted to see as many farms as possible

0:39.3

while I was there.

0:40.6

And Saturday was one of my more free days and it turns out that I really just met such an awesome farmer.

0:48.0

His name is Jonathan Sumner and he manages the farm at River Park.

0:53.0

River Parks in Manhattan.

0:55.2

It's right next to the East River.

0:57.0

You can see Brooklyn and Queens

0:58.4

right across the river.

0:59.7

And what really struck me is that he's growing in milk crates at a celebrity chef-owned

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