Is Peat Moss Bad for The Environment? + Reno 911 with Jules Giuliano (Soil researcher at Rosy Soil)
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: Nature + Pop Culture News with Jessica Murnane
Jessica Murnane
4.9 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jules is a natural farmer, soil researcher, and garden educator based in New Orleans. His background includes school gardening, cannabis cultivation, worm-based composting & large-scale organic food production. He currently works at Rosy Soil where he formulates peat-free, biochar-based potting soils that are organic, high quality and sustainably produced.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast. This is inside and outside. I'm Jessica Mernan, author, |
| 0:18.3 | Horticultural Therapy practitioner and founder of Vasker, where I help people use gardening and nature for mental, emotional, physical, and social well-being. |
| 0:27.3 | I love nature. I love gardening. I also love being deep into my couch, eating snacks, and watching weird YouTube clips. So we merge the inside and outside |
| 0:39.6 | together each week with my guest where they bring their first nature memory and then a current |
| 0:44.5 | inside obsession. Before we get to this week's guest, as always, I show a reason why I love to grow. |
| 0:50.4 | If you haven't heard other episodes, this is your first one. I've talked about it. Connecting me more |
| 0:54.4 | with my neighbors, meeting new friends, getting off my phone, feeling less stress, crushing the |
| 0:59.7 | monotonous revolutionary road feelings. And today, reason number nine, in no particular order of why I like to |
| 1:07.3 | grow things, it helps me tap into my creativity. Every season, I get to sit down |
| 1:14.4 | and think about the colors I want to grow. I think about how I can use the plants for other things. |
| 1:20.7 | Like right now, I'm growing a ton of African marigolds to die with. For my cool season garden, |
| 1:26.0 | I'm trying to grow more things that I know that can be |
| 1:28.0 | pressed. I am just so in all of the colors that happen in the garden that it just makes me want |
| 1:34.2 | to be more creative. And I know there's a lot of people, especially in my life, that don't think |
| 1:39.8 | that they're creative. But the act of growing can be such a great way to feel creative. Even if you're |
| 1:46.2 | just choosing a color palette that inspires you, let's say you're like, I'm going to go all |
| 1:50.4 | light green and pink things, or I'm going to grow all burgundy things. That is a form of |
| 1:57.0 | creativity. It's been helping me a lot lately, kind of get that extra spark back from being |
| 2:02.6 | on the computer a lot. And I just love it. So reason number nine of why I like to grow, |
| 2:08.7 | it helps me tap into my creativity. All right, one last thing before we get to today's guests. I've |
| 2:13.9 | been toying the idea with doing video for this podcast for next season. I personally don't |
| 2:19.5 | watch podcasts on YouTube or Spotify, because if I'm curious about what someone looks like, I'll |
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