How to Raise $100k to Start a Vertical Farm With Khaled Majouji

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is a long-form interview with my friend Khaled Majouji (Instagram). I met him on Instagram a while ago and have followed his journey ever since. He raised over $100k to start a vertical urban farm in Canada that's super inventive and interesting. In this episode, we get DEEP and talk about: How he got into gardening How he built up his following and raised $100k to start his farm His approach to farming and progress so far How he differentiates himself from other farmers in his area How he sees the future of food and farming How to break out on your own despite the pressure from family and friends It's a long, meaty episode and I truly hope you enjoy it. Please let me know if you like episodes like this one and I'll do more in the future. Keep growing, Kevin Epic Gardening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on Epic Gardeners? It's Kevin from Epic Gardening.
0:03.1	Today we're doing a little bit of a departure from the podcast. I am doing an
0:07.5	interview today. It's a longer one. It's about 50 minutes long with my friend
0:11.2	Kaleed who is at the plant charmer on
0:14.8	Instagram so that's how I first found out about him and then I became more and more
0:18.1	fascinated as to what he was up to because I started seeing him raising money for a farm,
0:24.0	growing all sorts of plants in these interesting vertical A-frame
0:27.4	setups.
0:28.2	And you know, as someone who's into all sorts of different ways of growing,
0:30.8	I was fascinated by his approach.
0:32.4	So I invited him on on and we talk a lot
0:34.6	about gardening but we also talk about business we talk about our approach to food
0:39.2	systems how we see the future of food why organic doesn't matter as much as you might think it would,
0:45.4	and the nuances of that.
0:46.7	So I'm going to leave you with the interview and please let's let me know what you think.
0:49.8	You can hit me up on Twitter, Instagram, email Kevin and up at gardening.
0:53.4	Again, this is different.
0:55.2	This is something I'm doing that's a little bit different.
0:56.9	So I do want to hear from you as to if you enjoyed it or not.
1:00.7	And with that, let's get into the interview with
1:02.8	Kaled the Plant Charmer.
1:04.4	See, before I was the Plant Charmer, well, always had an interest in growing.
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