Know Your Why

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Since Annette Thurmon began farming, she’s reaped plenty of benefits. Her excitement about gardening is based on her ability to support herself with healthy and delicious food she can’t get anywhere else. She also loves the lifestyle, and how she can rely on herself. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3sAL6r3 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/44zEuX5 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/47Wy5Is EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/45PYDJA Connect With Annette Thurmon: Annette Thurmon is a modern-day homesteader who lives with her husband, Jared, and their daughter Ava in the small town of Adairsville, Georgia. After years of city life, she sought a simpler way of living and moved to the country. There she cares for her organic garden and orchard, and animals which include alpacas, miniature donkeys, chickens, turkeys, bees, and more! She is self-taught and loves sharing with others what she has learned over the years. Her goal is to inspire others to live this lifestyle and share her daily adventures on social media - @azurefarm, her website - azurefarm.com, and the Azure Farm Podcast which she hosts with her husband. Website Instagram TikTok Pinterest Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you get into gardening, a lot of the times you kind of just stumble into it.
0:07.4	I know for me that's what it was, just sort of bored, addicted to video games, wanted
0:11.3	to do some with my brother one summer, didn't have a strong, compelling reason, just decided
0:15.8	to walk into the nursery.
0:17.9	But as you get into your journey, it really does evolve and change.
0:21.9	And we have someone who didn't start out as a gardener has now moved out in the country
0:28.0	running their own farm, a net thermon back on the show of Azure Farm.
0:32.1	For you guys, we went over a little bit of your origin story, a net I suppose yesterday,
0:36.7	but when you got to the land, that you finally found the land, you got the land, what was
0:41.6	like the core reason you wanted to actually do that?
0:46.2	I think I felt just such a disconnect from where my food comes from.
0:53.2	It's kind of like, you know, you go to the grocery store, you get this food, you make it
0:57.4	at home, but like, where does it come from?
0:59.0	How far has it traveled?
1:00.6	Is it healthy for me?
1:02.6	And moving to the country was just kind of like an opportunity to just reset and say,
1:07.5	you know what, maybe we can grow our own food and then know where our food comes from and
1:12.1	what's actually in it and, you know, really reap those benefits of the health, you know,
1:17.4	the vitamins and minerals that are in that food because you just literally harvested it
1:21.4	30 minutes ago and now you're eating it.
1:23.6	And so it was really just like for me, it was for probably the health benefits was the
1:28.3	main reason, but I didn't know a whole lot about it.
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