Organic Nutrients For Plants | How To Grow Fruit Trees That Thrive
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sit down with Susan Poizner, an urban orchardist and the founder of Orchard People. With a passion for educating and empowering others to successfully grow fruit, Susan started Orchard People because she believes that gardening is essential to being more connected to our environment – and living a more sustainable life.
Fruit trees can experience an array of problems, including poor-quality fruit, pests, and disease. Susan has a goal of making fruit tree care easy by providing articles, podcasts, books, and premium online courses to gardeners across the globe…
Join in now to find out:
- Why it takes a while for fruit trees to mature.
- How to care for fruit trees effectively and sustainably.
- The different stages of growth for various fruit trees.
- The importance of pruning when it comes to tree growth.
Click here to learn more about Susan and her work with Orchard People!
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast that Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Susan Boisner. She's the founder of Orchard People. |
| 0:45.2 | We're going to talk about growing urban orchards, which sounds like a really cool idea. |
| 0:49.0 | I guess even if you have like one or two trees or bushes or whatever it may be and you can grow and eat your own fruit. |
| 0:56.0 | I've done that in the past and it was a really cool experience so we're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome, Susan, thank you. |
| 1:02.3 | Hi Richard, thanks. Thank you. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, Richard, thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.0 | Tell me a bit about your background and how you got into growing and, you know, why fruit and |
| 1:09.6 | why orchons? |
| 1:10.6 | Wow, well, it's been quite a journey for me. My background is I'm a journalist and I was a filmmaker and I really didn't touch the soil until my 30s actually until I met my husband and he's from Trinidad and so in |
| 1:26.8 | Trinidad you just throw down a seed and something grows and it ends up being delicious. |
| 1:31.6 | So when we moved in together he looked at the backyard and he said, hey, we could be growing stuff here and I'm like, yeah, I don't think so. It's just going to be a mess and I don't want this to be my job and you know anyways luckily Richard he |
| 1:45.2 | persevered because we ended up planting a garden I fell in love with gardening |
| 1:50.3 | and growing things and as much as I love growing vegetables the more I |
| 1:54.5 | garden the more I realize that trees are so amazing you know a zucchini |
| 2:00.5 | plant will live a season and produce you know some zucchini plant will live a season and produce, you know, some zucchini's, which is great. |
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