🐢Harnessing the Power of Biodiversity in the Garden, with Yellow Skunk Farms
GrowCast
GrowCast Podcast
4.7 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Interested in Natural Farming? Our BEST class of the year! OKCalyxx Natural Farming Immersive, Oct 11 & 12. Grab your tickets today! www.growcast.com/events
(00:00) Josh's Farm and Background
(03:18) Balancing Sand, Silt and Clay
(06:15) Josh's Indoor Ecosystem
(12:55) Soil Composition Gradient
(16:48) Water Wicking and Retention
(20:15) Ferment Station Tour
(22:58) Garden Tour and Creek Filter
(27:28) Natural Farming Philosophy
The most beautiful indoor garden I've ever seen. Plus... Turtles in the grow?? Brand new guest Josh from Yellow Skunk Farms joins us to talk about the full blown ecosystem that he has created inside his garage on the east coast of the US. Josh shares a whole plethora of grow tips and tricks to help you bring more nature into your garden- from soil structure improvement, to utilizing local inputs, and more. Josh emphasizes how much time this project has taken, from the conceptualization years ago to the months of effort he's sunk into the build out of the project. We even get a first hand tour of the current indoor ecosystem. Make sure to stay tuned for part two of this awesome natural farming content piece!
Code growcast15 now works with grow KITS from AC Infinity! www.acinfinity.com use promo code growcast15 for 15% off the BEST grow fans in the game, plus tents, pots, scissors, LED lights, and now REFILLABLE FILTERS!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Today's episode features brand new guest Josh from Yellow Skunk Farms. He's created an ecosystem in his garage, and he's going to teach you how to do it, or at least how to make your garden a little more biodiverse. Check out Yellow Skunk Farms on Instagram to see more of his work, Growcast.com to see all of our work and all the archives, and AC Infinity for all your Growgear needs. Use code Growcast-5. Hello podcast listeners you are now listening to and watching Growcast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Go to Growcast.com. There you can see all the episodes on video. Get the entire archives up there. Plus, our seeds, our membership, our classes, it's all going down at growcast.com. |
| 0:38.5 | Make sure to sign up for the newsletter. We've got some big giveaways going down in there. |
| 0:42.5 | Today, we got a brand new episode, brand new guest. Very excited to speak to Josh from Yellow Skunk |
| 0:48.0 | Farms today. We're talking about biodiversity. We're talking about what could be the most |
| 0:51.6 | beautiful garden on Instagram right now. |
| 0:54.7 | So let's bring on our guest. |
| 0:56.3 | Let's waste no time here. |
| 0:58.4 | What's up, Josh? |
| 0:59.2 | How are you doing, man? |
| 0:59.9 | Thank you for coming on the show. |
| 1:01.9 | Thank you for having me, man. |
| 1:03.3 | Appreciate it. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:05.0 | So, listen, I saw your garden on Instagram, absolutely fell in love, as thousands of people have. |
| 1:14.5 | We'll get into all the biodiversity and your build out and all that in just a second. |
| 1:18.8 | But for the first time viewers and first time listeners, can you talk a little bit about yourself? |
| 1:24.0 | How'd you get started growing? How'd you get started in cannabis? |
| 1:27.3 | And then how'd you get started on? How'd you get started in cannabis? And then how'd you |
| 1:27.8 | get started on this crazy biodiversity project of yours? Man. Well, I mean, I guess I, my name's |
| 1:36.5 | Josh. I live in Virginia. I live on a six acre, small farm, not really farm right now. |
| 1:46.6 | It used to be a farm. |
| 1:47.7 | It used to be my grandfather's farm. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from GrowCast Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of GrowCast Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.