Its All About Building Community
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to gardening, the importance of building a community network to support one another is paramount. Today you’ll learn how Greg Peterson cultivated a thriving community in his local area and got some pretty epic tools together for the entire growing network in Phoenix, AZ to use.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Kevin from Evigardining here. We're back again with Farmer |
| 0:05.3 | Greg from the Urban Farm out in Phoenix and the Urban Farm Podcast. So today we're talking |
| 0:11.6 | about community and we've talked about it a lot and |
| 0:14.8 | Honestly in my apocalypse grow challenge which many of you guys know about and listen to or either follow it on on |
| 0:20.4 | Instagram or here on the podcast you know I couldn't really have done it |
| 0:24.0 | without the support of the community and the epic gardening community making some |
| 0:28.1 | epic barters if I do say so myself for some delicious food. So community is |
| 0:32.4 | certainly a vital part for some |
| 0:33.3 | delicious food. So community certainly a vital part of just human existence. It's it's our tribal nature to be living in community right? |
| 0:39.2 | But in the garden and outside of the garden even with some of the things that you've been doing, |
| 0:44.8 | Greg, I would love to know one particular thing, Grow PHX, was a project that you found |
| 0:52.0 | it a while ago and I would love to know a little bit more about that and the effects that that has had upon the Phoenix community. |
| 0:58.0 | Awesome. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | Grow pHX is an organization that Kari Spencer and I started six years ago and we |
| 1:08.9 | started to do day-long trainings to train people how to garden. |
| 1:16.2 | You know, is this, you know, come on down |
| 1:18.1 | and really learn how to grow food in the desert and what we took away from that I think we did |
| 1:29.2 | two of those then we did four permaculture design courses and you know a couple other events and |
| 1:36.3 | the Great American CETA. What we took away from this is the importance of the |
| 1:42.4 | community coming together to make stuff happen. |
| 1:45.8 | And one of the important things for me in life is that things get done because somebody says so. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
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