What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we have a really cool series for you. So I spoke with

Bridget Romstead of the San Diego Seed Company, which is a small one of actually the smallest seed companies, at least that I personally

know of and certainly in California, potentially even in the nation.

And what's so interesting about them is that they did this from

scratch. They are growing seeds that are acclimated to our climate over here in

San Diego, but also providing a cool model for people who want to start a small seed business similar to this.

And so what we're going to talk about is some of her story, how she got started in that, and then some specific seed saving techniques,

as well as some of the larger issues around seed saving and basically the future of our plant species.

So there's a lot to talk about in this one.

So before we get into it, we'll talk about Garden Maker Natural's

through the sponsor of the podcast.

Right now, we actually have the epic soil starter that is live on their site, which is the mix that I've partnered with them to create.

It's basically designed to take a new raised bed from just some topsoil and compost and add in some good organic matter

to get you producing in that very first season. So if that's interesting go

ahead and check out GardenMaker.com. In this first episode with Bridgette we're

going to talk about just her backstory and how she actually

ended up as a young owner of a seed company.

But yeah, I mean I guess maybe a little background on on how you started the whole thing.

What made you start a seed company of all the businesses you could start in

gardening or farming? Why seeds? Well it's funny that you asked that because like when we started it was a very simple

question that we could answer with a very simple answer.

The more we do it and the longer we're in business the more complicated that answer becomes and we understand even more that what we're doing is really important, but it becomes important

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