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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing in Shipping Containers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today kicks off a 6-part series with Tobias Peggs of Square Roots Grow, an urban farming company in New York City that focuses on developing the next generation of urban farmers. They grow in shipping containers and use data and artificial intelligence to continually improve their yields and efficiency. It's a fascinating project and I think you'll learn a lot over the next six episodes...so let's dive in! Learn More: Square Roots Grow Website SRG on Instagram 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

What is up everyone?

0:02.0

Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast and today we're talking with and we're kicking off actually a series with Tobias Pegs of Square Root Grow.

0:12.0

Now this is actually a farm and of Square Root Grow.

0:12.6

Now this is actually a farm and project

0:15.3

that I wanted to see when I was out in New York,

0:17.3

but unfortunately schedules didn't work out.

0:19.1

I didn't have the time to do it.

0:20.8

So I figured the next best option

0:22.3

was to have to buy us on the podcast

0:24.0

and bring his wisdom to you I think it's such a cool project that they're working on

0:28.7

and it hearkens back to how I started out in gardening which would be

0:31.6

hydroponic growing but they're approaching it in a way

0:35.1

that is simply next level.

0:37.4

And I do really mean next level.

0:38.9

The level of sophistication that they're bringing to hydroponics and urban food

0:44.0

production is something that's just really impressive and so over the next

0:48.1

six episodes you are going to hear the ins and outs of how it works,

0:53.2

how maybe you could even get involved,

0:55.2

and just some really nerdy technical plant

0:58.2

and hydroponic and future of food type of information.

1:00.8

So first of all, we're going to kick it off. Tobias is going to share who he is and

1:04.8

then he's going to give us a high-level overview of what Squareroots Grow as a project is trying

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