Introducing Greg The Pond Guy

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Greg Whitstock, the Pond Guy has been in the pond trade for 33 years. He founded his professional pond business Aquascape in college. It all started when he decided he wanted to work in a field he loved, and built a pond for his turtles. Today Aquascape is the #1 pond contracting company in Chicago. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bEHc1S Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bDbq5o Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/456JWm9 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3wZL8LA Learn More: 11 Aquatic Plants for Your Garden PondConnect With Greg the Pond Guy:Greg Wittstock, The Pond Guy, is owner and CEO of Aquascape, Inc. After experimenting with ponds for over eight years, Greg had a “light bulb” moment. He decided that he wanted to do something he loved for a living – he wanted to build ponds. From there he created the Aquascape, Inc. business model. Greg authored The Pond Guy on Marketing and has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and in Nat Geo Wild’s “Pond Stars” series. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs 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. 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: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've ever wanted a water garden at your property, this is going to be the week for you because we have the man, the myth, the legend, Greg Wittsock, of Aquascapes.
0:22.0	Fun to be back here.
0:23.0	It's two years ago I was here the last time.
0:24.2	I know, yeah.
0:25.2	It's grown in, shocking.
0:26.5	Yeah, we have a beautiful pond, as you guys know here
0:29.4	at the Epic Homestead.
0:30.7	Thanks to Greg and his team, Ed the Pond Professor as well, who's a genius, a mastermind.
0:35.4	He is, he's my longest teammate.
0:36.8	31 years, over three decades, we've been working together.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.3	So give people a primer because, you know, obviously we we're on the podcast most people were listening to this show
0:45.5	Who are you and what and what is aquascapes? So I'm Greg Wittstock the pond guy
0:51.6	This is my 33rd year in business. I own Aquascape. I founded Aquascape as a college
0:58.8	kid back in 1991 as a way to make some money in the summer.
1:04.0	I had built a pond, my first pond for my turtles
1:07.0	when I was a 12 year old kid as a hobbyist and I went to the library.
1:10.0	I don't know, you've ever been to a library before? Yeah I used to go there all the time.
1:14.4	You used to okay but a lot of people now the internet was replaced the library to find things but I went to the
1:19.8	library and all of the books and everything that I read about water gardening to build my first turtle pond in my backyard were from England
1:27.4	from Japan on koi fish and so it said to make it strong to make it out of concrete.
1:33.0	And so I, as a 12 year old kid, worked with my dad
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