Making a Living as a Garden Coach
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
If you love plants and want to base your career around them, garden coaching may be an option for you. Nicole Burke of Gardenary comes on the show today to talk about how she started her business, and how many others have started in her wake.
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Nicole Burke is the founder of Rooted Garden and Gardenary, author of Kitchen Garden Revival, and developer of multiple garden courses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:16.6 | Podcast. We are joined by the truly epic Nicole Burke of Rooted Garden and |
| 0:21.8 | Garden as well as the author of the upcoming book, Kitchen Garden Revival, |
| 0:25.2 | pre-order that in the podcast description. |
| 0:27.6 | But today, we're actually going to be diving a bit deeper into something Nicole created. |
| 0:33.7 | She's the developer of the Garden Coach certification and that's sort of ties in really nicely |
| 0:38.4 | with Kitchen Garden Academy, which I would love for you to describe a little bit about because I think you know someone |
| 0:44.5 | listening might not quite know what that is. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah so I in 2017 I mentioned that or or not back in 2015, but I mentioned that in 2017 I started |
| 0:57.4 | Gardinary and I put this post out on Instagram and I was like, hey guys, I'm thinking |
| 1:01.9 | about training or offering a certification |
| 1:04.5 | to teach people the way I started my business so they could start their own. |
| 1:08.2 | Tag yourself if you'd be interested. |
| 1:10.6 | And Kevin, I was like one of my most, I mean I didn't have a ton of followers at the time, but I was like, |
| 1:14.4 | it was like one of my most interacted posts ever. |
| 1:16.8 | Oh, wow, okay. |
| 1:17.8 | So that told you, hey, there's something here. |
| 1:20.1 | I was like, oh, okay, this is fun, like, maybe this is the thing. |
| 1:23.7 | So in 2018 is when I first really launched it and I had I guess about 35 |
| 1:30.8 | gardeners sign up from all over North America and since that time we've opened |
| 1:35.9 | the doors to the course I guess about four times and we have 135 gardeners from |
| 1:41.8 | all over the US and even like a few in Canada and some in New Zealand too of all places. |
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