How We’re Connected to The Plants We Evolved With

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Humans don’t just grow plants because they are beloved. They have functions in the garden as well. Whether they’re grown for trap cropping, companion planting, or for cultivation, there are social and cultural elements that led us to co-evolve with plants. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4czYgHgBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4cG9ev1Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49gaiCWEGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/49hadi7Learn More:5 Ancient Gardening Methods That Work in the Modern GardenConnect With Margot Kelley:Margot Kelley is a vegetable gardener of 20+ years based in Maine and the author of A Gardener at the End of the World, a memoir about gardens, seeds, and viruses written during the pandemic. Her other gardening books include Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food, The Meadow (with Barbara Bosworth), and A Field Guide to Other People’s Trees. Website Instagram Margot’s new book (publisher site) Margot’s new book (Amazon) 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 BooksLooking 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are much more connected to our environment and specifically the plants in our
0:18.8	environment than we think, especially in the modern age where you sort of think you are living in a fully
0:24.9	manufactured constructed environment by humans which in a way we are but at the
0:28.8	same time there's some very interesting relationships that we may not be aware of.
0:33.4	So we have Margot Kelly back on the show,
0:35.6	a veggie gardener of 20 plus years,
0:37.2	and the author of a gardener at the end of the world.
0:39.8	It's been a wild week, Margot.
0:41.4	We've learned about melons and syphilis. We've learned about boiling
0:45.5	beans. We've learned about agriculture and pandemics. Why don't we bring it back to today and
0:52.1	talk about maybe some interesting relationships we might not be aware of between
0:56.7	humans and plants you know in 2024.
1:00.7	Sure. So early in the pandemic, people who were my friends in other places who weren't
1:08.9	gardeners started emailing and saying, should I garden? Do you think I should garden?
1:13.5	Do I need a garden?
1:15.1	And I was like, well, you maybe don't need one,
1:17.6	but gardening is probably a great idea for right now.
1:21.6	And I encourage everybody to Garden, anybody who wants to, you probably do the same thing.
1:27.6	Oh yeah. But I also had this like little moment of hesitation because the last time that there was a big influx of
1:35.2	gardeners was in 2009 during the Great Recession and I don't know what happened in California but on the
1:42.0	East Coast there were there was blight all the way up and down the
1:46.1	east coast on the tomato plants because the tomatoes were being sent north from industrial growers in the south and so as they made their way up the
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