Hosting Garden Parties for Friends

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Coming from a family of good hosts, Becky has been hosting parties long before she started gardening. The onus for her is to enjoy the company of her friends and family. Here, she shares ways hosts can make the process less intimidating, and more relaxing. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45oBltM Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3F9NUOT Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/46kkYPX EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/45hDmry Connect With Becky Jones: While working as a dental hygienist, Becky’s passion for scratch cooking grew into a passion for knowing where her food comes from. A couple of years ago, she and her husband had the opportunity to buy a home on a small one-acre parcel of land. In January 2021, she started the Acre Homestead YouTube channel to document her second year of gardening. What started as a personal project grew into a full-time job within a matter of months! Today, she shares her passion for homegrown, homemade, and locally-sourced food. Instagram YouTube Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've had a few parties here at the homestead and let's just say they could have been a little
0:08.9	better.
0:09.9	I, you would think, you know, I've got the homestead, I've got the orchard, I've got
0:13.4	the chickens, I do an okay job, but we have Becky Jones from Acre homestead on the show.
0:18.8	Something that you are well versed in, maybe if I'm in town, I'll crash one of these.
0:24.1	It sounds like an amazing time.
0:26.4	But, you know, is this something that you did Becky before hosting parties?
0:30.2	Like, did you do this before at the suburban house that you were in?
0:33.5	Is it something that you were always into or did it kind of blossom with the addition
0:37.0	of space and growing?
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.7	So, my grew up, my mom was always big into hosting.
0:42.3	We always had big parties and things like that.
0:44.2	And so, when my husband and I first got married and we lived in our suburban lot, we had
0:49.3	parties all the time.
0:51.1	And it's just kind of grown and evolved as I've had homestead and growing food.
0:56.8	But it definitely is something that I have been doing well before I had a garden or was
1:01.7	trying to buy local food or anything like that.
1:04.9	Got it.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:07.9	So, what do you make a good, what is hosting to you?
1:13.2	Maybe I'll just go that basic.
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