Nursery Sustainability Practices

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Because nurseries can be such a huge operation with plenty of offsets, having sustainable practices looped into their daily activities is important. At Bailey, Ryan and his team use different production techniques, from rainwater capture, to using recycled materials.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TNf71ZBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PzXbVTBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3TRcNqwEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/43vmVISLearn More:13 Low Maintenance Hydrangeas that Thrive on NeglectConnect With Ryan McEnaney:Ryan McEnaney is a fifth-generation family member leading marketing at Bailey Nurseries, as well as a garden designer and author. He is passionate about connecting people to nature and encouraging home gardeners to enjoy digging in the dirt. He travels the country educating homeowners on how to be successful in their growing ventures. His approach revolves around making gardening fun, breaking down barriers, and welcoming collaboration. Ryan’s first book, “Field Guide to Outside Style” helps home gardeners discover their own style for designing their outdoor space. Instagram Bailey Nurseries Instagram Bailey Nurseries Website Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For an industry that is called the green industry, it is sometimes interesting, I've marveled at this at least, that some of the things that it does could potentially be seen as not so green as we have
0:25.1	Ryan Mackinini back on the show fifth generation family member leading marketing
0:29.0	at Bailey Nurseries we just learned over the last couple of episodes the scale and scope of what Bailey does and many
0:36.0	other wholesale nurseries do around the country, Ryan.
0:38.8	And so when you think about that, as someone who's working there. Do you look at the industry sometimes and go like,
0:45.7	huh, like why are we doing it that way? Yeah, we certainly do and especially with our team we like to take a step back as we we promote this
0:54.7	green product right and being able to take that step back and and look at how we got
1:02.0	here today especially for us, over 120 years, a lot of things have changed.
1:06.9	I mean, in the industry, when you look at the container that you buy in the nursery, they call
1:11.9	them cans, because they started
1:13.4	growing plants in tin cans and that's evolved of course that's that wasn't a very
1:20.1	profitable way to do it but it was also not super sustainable either.
1:24.4	And looking even at how our industry operates right now as we look at chemicals and water use
1:29.9	and plastic use, there's a huge conversation about looking not only within our
1:35.8	industry here, looking at partner supporting industries in the US, but also
1:40.9	overseas to find ways to do better. To be really green.
1:46.2	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like with scale sometimes you you lose efficiency in
1:52.0	certain parts of a process right like if you look at
1:54.5	industrial agriculture obviously you say well I can get an insane amount of corn
1:58.9	out of this field but to do that I have to do X Y and Z that as an externality to that might not be so great in 100 years.
2:07.2	It's fine today, it's not so great in 100 years.
2:09.7	So yeah, it's interesting.
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