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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Nick's Urban Gardening Tips

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Everyone comes to urban gardening differently, and Nick is no different - he's got some creative strategies from a rooftop in LA. Connect With Nick Cutsumpas: Nick Cutsumpas is a plant coach, urban farmer, community gardener, and all around plant person. He has a newsletter called The Growing Green Newsletter. Follow Nick on Instagram Follow Nick on TikTok Join Nick's newsletter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

0:17.1

We are back with farmer Nick himself, the plant man.

0:21.8

He does a lot of different things.

0:23.2

He is a plant coach.

0:24.4

Maybe we'll talk about that a little bit, Nick, because I think that's probably an interesting

0:27.9

moniker for some people, urban farmer, community gardener, all sorts of different things he's

0:32.8

got going on.

0:33.8

One thing that you're big on, Nick, is sustainability and how can you reduce your waste and not consume

0:40.2

things you don't need to consume and repurpose things that you have consumed.

0:43.3

Of course composting is a piece of that.

0:45.9

It's easy for me to compost because I've got like three different ways I can do it on

0:49.7

a big house, right?

0:52.5

But if you're in that 600 square foot apartment, like you mentioned, what's something

0:57.6

that's practical that someone will actually be able to do?

1:02.8

Composing in a small space is difficult.

1:06.6

I know folks who have brought the whole vermicomposting system inside, which I don't think my roommates

1:12.6

personally would go for.

1:13.6

I don't think many people listening might go for it.

1:16.4

Yeah, it's a lot.

1:17.4

It's a lot.

1:18.4

But I think there's a few different things you can do and some different kind of approaches

1:22.8

to it that I think are very effective.

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