What's going on everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Today we're doing a fun one. I thought I would just share my goals for the garden this year. Now they always change. They always shift based on what I did last year, my shifting interests in the

garden and some things that I want to do for Epic gardening, right? And so they may be a little different from yours. I'm actually really curious to hear what your goals are as well. So feel free to share those with me on

Instagram at Epic Gardening. You can just shoot me a message. Let me know what you're kind of thinking about, what you're planning, I would love to hear it.

Now, for me, it makes sense to look back at last year.

Last year was a crazy year both for gardening and epic gardening. I was traveling a lot more than I would

have wanted to, although they were some cool stuff that I traveled for, I still wasn't

consistently in the garden as much as I would have liked. So that changed the things that I grew. I grew lower maintenance crops. I grew crops that I could kind of just leave for a week and it wasn't a big deal and there were gaps in my garden

throughout spring summer throughout fall winter and it just wasn't exactly what I

would have hoped now I still had some incredible successes in the garden to the point of actually living off of my garden in June for the Apocalypse Grow challenge.

I survived by growing 100 pounds of potatoes, various other vegetables, fishing and foraging, so that was a major, major success in 2019.

In 2020, I really want to explore the tie between the garden and the kitchen. We grow stuff. A lot of us grow things simply for the love of growing.

I know for me, I get so much joy out of simply growing things that eating them is almost an

afterthought not that I don't but I'm not as focused on it this year

thanks to some of the guests I've had on the podcast, thanks to the Apocalypse Grow Challenge,

and thanks to an improved focus on my own personal health

and well-being, what I want to do is explore

cooking more with what I actually grow, which is going to change what I grow in the first place.

I want consistent harvests. I want a good variety of crops, and I may even de-stress some of the more rare, unique, funky things in favor of some reliable producers this year.

So you'll see me talk a lot more about that as we ramp up the season but that's a major

major focus now you just heard me say I want more consistent harvest I would

really like to focus more on successive planting and successive harvests. In last year I had more of a

season's approach because of my travel schedule this year hopefully I can get

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