Pens, Pools, and Predators - Oh My!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What structures do duck-keepers need to rear ducks safely? A water source and a shelter are obvious starting places. And you can even give your ducks a super deluxe living situation. Kristine Ellis discusses what they need, how to protect them, and what predators to expect. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3XaJAJv Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3x6wcvi Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Xfw6ft EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4bS9GW1 Connect With Kristine Ellis: Kristine started ¨Dunkin Ducks¨ in 2017 as a fun way to share her beloved pets online. It quickly grew into a viral internet sensation, most notably with videos of her duck Munchkin drinking ice water from different restaurants. She focuses a lot on educational videos about raising pet ducks, while also keeping it fun with silly duck videos. Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Raising Ducks for Beginners and Beyond Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Beat is sponsored by Shopify, our Commerce Platform of Choice here at Epic Gardening.
0:05.5	If you are looking to start a business or you have one where you're offering products or services online or offline,
0:12.0	you can get a free trial at shopify.com
0:14.4	forward slash the beat.
0:15.8	But here's why we love it so much.
0:17.9	Back in 2019, when I first started offering gardening products for sale,
0:22.1	I didn't know anything about commerce.
0:24.0	So I threw up a very simple Shopify store in about an hour or two.
0:27.9	It was that easy and began to offer our flagship product, Birdies raised beds.
0:31.6	Shopify made setting up the inventory, the
0:34.1	tracking, the returns, the sales tax, all of the minutia of selling product
0:39.8	online so so easy. In fact, it's one of the first things we did when we
0:43.4	purchase botanical interests is we moved our seed company's platform from what
0:47.2	it was on before to Shopify and the experience was night and day. So we
0:51.2	wholeheartedly recommend Shopify as our commerce platform of choice here in
0:54.5	Epic gardening and again you can get a free trial at shopify.com forward slash the beat. We're back my friends. It is Duck Week on The Beat Podcast. We have Christine Ellis,
1:18.0	Duncan Ducks on Instagram and also the author of Raising Ducks for Beginners and Beyond. We have been on quite the journey
1:24.3	Christine and now we're getting into the structures that help our ducks in the
1:28.6	backyard live amazing lives. So I mentioned my chicken coop. It's pretty beefy. It's like a six by 18 foot coop kind of a
1:36.6	deluxe coop. Jacques on our team built his own chicken coop for I believe $200 and
1:41.4	50 hours of work.
1:43.0	So he paid in a different way for sure,
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