Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening

podcast Kevin here and Ian McKenna is back he is a youth hunger advocate

yesterday we learned I guess in your origin story of how you started gardening to try to do some good both in your elementary school for the kids who are food insecure but also just inspiring a larger mission and that's what we're talking about today is how can you how can I and all of you listening

How can your garden actually help the community and and and you've got a lot of of ways to suggest here right and I think a lot of people think

well I can barely grow enough for my own kitchen how could I do something for the larger

community and and there's certainly some things you can do.

Yeah, kind of like you said, a lot of people think either they don't have enough room or it's too

expensive or just one plan isn't you don't really make a difference but that's also that's

that's really true because a lot of the time you can go to kind of almost any store and get a

packet of seeds for like a dollar or two and you can just play even just in those plastic pots that you can buy the

siblings in you can just grow it in there even and when you really think about it one plant it could be

one lettuce plant that lettuce plant could be turned into a salad which that's a meal.

So every little bit can really help.

And in reality, I'm not saying like, don't grow for yourself. It's just if you have any extras

give it to someone who really needs it. Yeah I think for me and probably most

gardeners you don't perfectly plan your garden and perfectly

consume every ounce of produce that you create you might have too much lettuce at

one point in time maybe you overplanted your beans and you have so many or you simply

get sick of them and you're in a position where simply being sick of a food is enough to make

you not want to eat it and you're not food insecure, right?

And so, like you're saying, there's plenty of ways

and plenty of things you can do to figure out

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