What's up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here and today we are back with our final

episode at least for the time being with Rob Greenfield and this is a really cool

one because it it kind of ties together everything that we've talked

about over the past few episodes and also ties together almost everything that

you would think about in gardening because Rob is now growing and consuming 100% of his own food in a project he's calling food freedom.

And what's really funny is I earlier this year came up with this idea

of growing at least food for one month, trying to survive one month and then

documenting all of the planning and preserving and maybe foraging

etc that that would go into that and then I saw Rob drop his his one year

challenge and I was like oh man I might I might need to upgrade my my game but fortunately I have him here in the

podcast so Rob what was the impetus or what sort of made you start wanting to go this

direction with with your gardening journey oh man so many things I mean for me what happened

earliest on was 2011 I started to watch a lot of documentaries and started to read books and read things online and just realized, you know, what are, I realized I was a part of this globalized industrialized food system that was ultimately destroying everything that I loved on Earth.

And I just realized, wow, this is not what I thought my food was.

And so for me, I quickly came to grow your own. I mean, one of the simplest ways to get

connected with your food, to understand produce it in a way that's, you know,

less destructive to the world and can actually be regenerative

to the to our communities, was growing your own and so you know I just got more and

more interested in growing my own food over the last seven years I've learned a lot

as a as a traveler I wasn't able to grow a lot because when I was in

San Diego I was out of town six months of the year usually and and then for the two

years after San Diego I was traveling for two entire

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