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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Garden With Children

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

I don’t have any children (yet), but my friend Brian (@neverenoughdirt on Instagram) does - so I brought him on to talk about how he gets his children engaged in the garden.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to Epic Gardening. Kevin here. We're here again with

0:06.5

Brian from Never Enough Dirt on Instagram. Definitely go check out his feed. It's

0:11.1

really cool. So we are talking about a topic that I really can't

0:15.1

comment on myself because I do not have children. And it's, you know, as you might imagine,

0:20.0

the topic is how to garden with children. And we're going to go into just a couple

0:23.7

different nuances I guess and you know I'm going to lean on you here Brian because like

0:27.9

I said I don't have kids and how has your experience been growing your children up in the garden?

0:35.0

It's been an awesome experience and one of the perks of being a stay-at-home dad is to be able to spend time with your kids and even better if you

0:45.6

garden to spend time with them outside.

0:48.6

Yeah, yeah I mean I can imagine it like I said I think in yesterday's episode I did not grow up in the garden

0:54.8

the only experience I had with a garden as a kid I think was one week every summer

1:00.0

at my great aunt's house I would run through the garden and we would pick like

1:04.1

blackberries and grapes and stuff but I didn't have that connection right

1:07.3

because I had no participation in that garden I just sort of saw it so I'm

1:12.0

curious how you kind of have helped your kids or

1:15.4

encourage them to kind of actually take part in the process. I just

1:20.4

remember being a kid and being in the garden my parents that I wanted to really garden and

1:27.0

that memory is really strong with me.

1:29.2

So with my kids I grow with them and allow them to grow with me and they've been really

1:37.3

excited about all the things we grow they go out there they ask go out there all the

1:41.0

time and that's something that I've gotten a lot of inspiration

1:44.5

from other garners on Instagram

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