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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Jacques and Kris are two of the first employees of Epic Gardening, and both of them got into growing their own food around the pandemic. Both of them truly love food, cooking, and most of all, eating. These interests sparked their jobs teaching other people how to garden. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Q9rTFO Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3vRhoQG Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3w7A1Qb EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3UoDrHz Learn More: 15 Fruit Trees to Plant this SpringConnect With Jacques and Kris:Kris Moriarty and Jacques Lyakov are great gardeners, and some of the first Epic Gardening team members. As the resident Garden Hermit and the Director of Customer Experience at Epic, both have the skills to grow a lush and vibrant garden full of food for themselves and their families. They teach other people to grow too. Kris even does this in her side consulting business, called Grow A Lil Garden, where she helps people build their own gardens. With a practical understanding of gardening, as well as a knack for flavor, Jacques and Kris are taking over the pod this week to share their knowledge and skills with The Beet Podcast listeners. Kris’ Website Kris’ Instagram Jacques’ YouTube Jacques’ Instagram Jacques’ Website 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	Welcome back to a special episode of The Beat where today I am hosting. It is me
0:17.2	Jacques from Jacques in the Garden. We actually have a special guest today with
0:21.7	Chris Moriarty and some of you might have heard her before because
0:25.1	she is the head of customer service and experience here at Epic Gardening.
0:29.0	So Chris, pleasure to have you on today.
0:31.2	I'm excited. And actually we met pretty close to the same time.
0:36.0	We did. It's a pretty interesting story because at the beginning a lot of you guys
0:40.2	might have heard about this by now but Kevin started at the garden kind of by himself
0:44.3	really running the blog running the store and everything in between and during
0:48.9	2020 he started to need a little bit of help and you were actually one of the very first hires here
0:53.8	at the garden.
0:54.8	I was. I was the I think the third hire.
0:56.8	I was hired his executive assistant to help manage his crazy life after we took
1:02.2	off.
1:03.0	So it's quite crazy.
1:04.3	Yeah, it really was.
1:05.3	Yeah, and Chris was actually so before me and then I believe I think I was right after you.
1:10.3	Mm-hmm.
1:11.3	I remember when he talked about you. He was looking for somebody to help in the
1:16.1	garden. And I know everybody knows this story, but it was so it's so true and so
1:20.3	cute. He was talking about how he was going to have this guy come over and his name
1:24.6	Jacques and he lives like right down the street on you know right right around the
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