What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We have a really fun

guest this week, Marie Philyune, Forger, writer, and if I do say so myself a master of cocktails we first met at a better homes and gardens event in New York where Marie was presenting and we actually got to enjoy one of her fabulous cocktails which maybe we'll talk about later on this week

but she's the author of Forage Harvest Feast and is basically a forger writer

gardener and among many other things so what thought we'd do this week is talk about some things that you can forage,

especially in an urban environment, but also tie that to your garden,

where if you can forage it, chances are pretty pretty good you could also cultivate it.

So that's what we're talking about and thank you so much for coming on the show Marie.

Thank you so much for having me Kevin.

It's really exciting to be talking to you again.

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited and maybe I'll also see you

again later this year at the next Better Homes event if you're going. I will make a better

cocktail. Not that I was not bad. The last one was really good. I was surprised. I hadn't had anything quite with that

taste before.

It was really tasty.

Okay, so what I thought we would do is, you know, for people who don't know who you are,

it might be nice to just get a quick little

synopsis of your gardening your foraging history how did you get started in all

this? It's a long story because it's almost as old as I am but one of the first things I can

remember like in terms of my memory of being a human being was my mom giving me

a packet of reddish seeds when I was a little. I must have been about four years old. And she sent me off into the

garden, gave me a little strip of dirt, taught me how to plant the radish seeds, and I've pretty much been

gardening ever since.

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