Well, hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, the day after Christmas

December 26, 2017. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate that holiday

and if you don't't I hope you had a

wonderful holiday that you do celebrate whichever one that is I had a

wonderful Christmas myself and I am ready to get back on the horse.

So as I think about what's coming up for 2018 for Epic Gardening,

I couldn't help, but make an episode,

that's a bit of an announcement of sorts.

So, one of the big goals for the site and just

epic gardening in general. My mission with the site is to help as many people as I

can learn how to grow their own food, learn where food comes from, just make better health

choices, better environmental choices, and better spiritual almost choices.

Gardening just makes me feel good and I hope that I can help other people have that

same feeling within themselves and so I had goals I wanted to teach a million

people how to grow their own food well turns out this year Gardening will have seen probably around 2 million people visit the website.

And so I ended up updating that goal to 10 million people.

But I also wanted to expand. I wanted to get on YouTube. I wanted to expand I wanted to get on YouTube I wanted to start a podcast so this year we started the epic gardening

podcast and now about a thousand of you listen to this podcast every single day and I'm super

grateful and super thankful to just have connected with all of you. I get so many questions in. It's really awesome to to hear from you.

You know and just to share something my friend Isaac who is a listener of the podcast he says this he says since watching your videos and listening to your podcast this past year

It's been a game-changer for my family and I we now eat two of our three meals. We use as much from the garden as we can and

by straight from local farms here in Texas for the rest. We have built a new 14 foot

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