Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Could you grow your own food on the moon? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with Kevin Espiritu, the gardening YouTuber behind Epic Gardening, to dig into backyard farming, the future of sustainable food, and what it would actually take to feed yourself on Earth or anywhere else.

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0:00.0	You mean I can grow my own food and not have to go to the store?
0:03.1	Yeah, make the best of your backyard.
0:04.8	Can I do it in the moon?
0:06.1	I don't believe Fresh Direct goes there.
0:09.2	Coming up, all the things you can do to grow food in your backyard on StarTalk, special edition.
0:17.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:30.6	This is StarTalk, special edition, which of course means I got Gary O'Reilly.
0:36.1	Hi, Neil. Chuckie, baby.
0:37.2	Hey, man. How you doing? I'm doing great. Lord Chuck. I know. Chuckie, baby. Hey, man.
0:37.7	How you doing?
0:38.2	I'm doing great.
0:39.0	Lord Chuck Nice. Lord Chuck Nice. All right. That's right. We got a special edition here. What do we got? This is on the future of growing food. I like it because I like food. Keeps me alive. So, see, I would say that's the future of growing vegetables, because you're not growing a cow.
0:57.9	Well, not. keeps me alive. So I see, I would say this is the future of growing vegetables because you're not growing
0:57.0	a cow.
0:58.0	Well, not right now.
0:59.0	We're not growing right now.
1:01.0	There might be a cow plant.
1:03.0	Maybe we will be planting cows one day.
1:06.0	Genetically modified?
1:07.0	Okay. Genetic so that you can grow them in a pot.
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