Leaving a Garden to Rest For a Year

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Chef Chris Starkus is back on the podcast to talk about his new career change as well as some thoughts on his farm, Lost Creek Micro Farm. Today’s episode features an update about the farm as well as his plans for the future. Connect With Chris Starkus: After being a professional chef for 25 years, Chris Starkus pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and CSO of Boss Defrost. He is also a Journeyman beekeeper, Organic Farmer, committed to 360-degree sustainability and transparency. Boss Defrost (Instagram) Chris Starkus' Instagram | Twitter Lost Creek Microfarm | Instagram |Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:02.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are kicking off this
0:18.8	amazing week with a returning guest Chris Starkus, formerly a professional chef for 25 years.
0:26.0	He recently pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and the chief sales
0:31.0	officer of Boss Defrost, which we're actually going to talk about later on this week.
0:35.0	He's also a journeyman beekeeper and if any of you listeners remember, he is an organic farmer.
0:41.0	He has Lost Creek Micro Farm, which is committed to 360 degree
0:44.7	sustainability and transparency and that's actually what we're talking about in
0:48.4	this first episode is what's going on at Lost Creek Micro Farm.
0:52.8	So first of all, Chris, great to have you back and thanks for coming back on.
0:56.0	Thanks, Kevin.
0:57.0	It's great to be back again, and especially in the year 2020,
0:59.4	so happy new year.
1:00.0	Thanks so much.
1:00.8	Yeah, you too, you too.
1:02.0	So I know that the last time you were on you were the
1:05.4	executive chef at Urban Farmer Denver right correct and that's kind of been your your
1:10.8	career path for what 25 years or so?
1:13.5	25 years yeah I've been in professional kitchens for 25 years as a chef that's correct.
1:17.8	Got it okay cool and then the thing that I thought was really cool was not only the
1:21.7	cooking angle which is is certainly not my strength but
1:24.0	pairing that with Las Creek Micro Farm where you're sourcing a lot of your own
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