Meg's Gardening Journey

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Gardening has always been a dream for Meg Lloyd. As a pre-med student taking a botany class, she realized this is what she should have done with her life. Fast forward to today, and Meg has a thriving backyard garden on her quarter acre lot full of delicious produce. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3UyMk1j Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/44dXqfD Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3UiluJt EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4b3VnNy Learn More:Chaos Gardening: How to Start GardeningConnect With Meagan Lloyd:Meg Lloyd currently grows, preserves, and cooks her own food in a small backyard garden in North Carolina. She started gardening three years ago, and it has given her a new appreciation for food. She has learned so much about how to prepare the fresh garden produce that she harvests. And now, she’s sharing her love for gardening and garden-to-table meals with the world! InstagramTikTokYouTubeBlogShop the StoreAs 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the beat. I am Jacques from Jacques in the garden. I am taking over for a little bit and we
0:18.7	actually have a very interesting guest on today. It's Megan Lloyd from Meg Gross Plants. She's on Instagram, YouTube,
0:24.7	Tik-Tok, and she's been in a lot of our videos.
0:27.2	And today, I wanted to talk to you
0:29.6	about how you actually began gardening,
0:31.5	what started your gardening journey, and just how you got there and
0:35.6	where you're playing on going.
0:36.6	Hi, Jacques.
0:37.6	It's good to be back on the pod.
0:41.4	So yeah, I guess I'll just jump right into it. I mean I got started I've always wanted to
0:45.0	garden since I was very young but my parents weren't gardeners and I didn't really get the chance to garden until I was an adult and I kind of
0:57.2	started out patio gardening in apartments like apartments, when I was in college and like kind of moving around a lot.
1:08.0	And then when I finally, we finally bought this house back in 2020 that's kind of like when I just went full
1:16.1	blown I was like this is my time this is my chance to have a garden and that's when I
1:20.2	started and I started wow it with just one 8 by 4 bed and then like over the season it just dramatically increased and I think I just it was a very slippery slope like it kind of just went crazy and just kept adding more and
1:35.0	I just kept adding more and more beds and over the past four years I just kept adding more and then that's where how I got where I am today.
1:44.0	That's super cool so you actually have always wanted to garden or at least have been
1:48.6	interested in guiding for a while and you even started back in college?
1:52.0	Yeah I've always been into playing. And you even started back in college?
1:55.0	Yeah, I've always been into plants. So, I, when I was in college, like my degrees in cellular and molecular biology,
2:00.0	and I remember having this thought, because I had to take an elective for my biology degree and I took Botany and I remember thinking in my botany class like this is what I should have done with my life.
2:13.4	I should have done this instead of biology.
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