What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today is our final

episode, for now at least, with Nancy Hayden, the co-owner of the Farm Between in

Vermont, and she's also the co-author of the book Farming on the

Wild Side which is out right now and the link is in the podcast description.

So we've talked a lot about the Wild Side philosophy, you know, letting things not necessarily go but

letting them return and playing more with Mother Nature rather than trying to control it too

much.

And so there's a lot of things that we've talked about this week, landscaping

with native plants, cultivating a healthier soil, working with some unusual

berries, working with berries that are actually native to the area.

So they're kind of playing both sides of the coin

where you're using a native plant,

but you're also getting food that produces for yourself.

And so the final episode today is talking about

an ever-important thing in in the garden and that would be

pollination and of course native bees do quite a bit of that but they don't if

they're not there and so this is something that I've learned a lot about over the course of this year,

Nancy. I've had a couple other people on and I'm curious, you know, what you guys

have done at the farm between to enhance your native bee populations?

Okay, good question.

So we are a fruit farm and all of our fruit starts as a flower that needs to be pollinated by a bee or a butterfly or some other

insect. So we're very concerned about these types of critters.

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