Perennial Crops vs. Annuals
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What are some of Pete's favorite perennial crops to mix into the garden?
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Kevin here. We've got |
| 0:16.7 | Pete Canaris from Green Dreams. He's an edible landscaper, a permaculturist. |
| 0:21.4 | Actually I found Pete, I believe Pete first on Instagram but then also on |
| 0:25.9 | YouTube and you make these amazing documentaries I almost want to say. You worked a lot with |
| 0:30.8 | Rob Greenfield who I've had on the podcast before when he was in Florida and you've done these tours of edible front yard farms so I highly recommend checking out Green Dreams on YouTube as well but we were talking yesterday about Pete's sort of entry way into the |
| 0:47.2 | edible world through the path of annuals and now a lot of perennials out there in Florida and I've done a similar transformation |
| 0:54.0 | although I would say I'm slightly behind you by at least a few years where I you know |
| 0:58.8 | I'm growing in a lot more space than I ever have had before and I had a maybe a 15 by 45 foot space in my |
| 1:06.6 | front yard back in the day and now I'm on 12,800 square feet. |
| 1:11.5 | So I'm looking to perennials. In fact, just yesterday I was doing a bunch of |
| 1:14.8 | orchard planning at the very least selecting the crops and the cultivars and then of course |
| 1:20.0 | where they're going to go pretty soon. But I'm curious like what what made you go from |
| 1:24.0 | annuals to perennials was it a similar thing just a function of having more space or |
| 1:28.8 | what hooks you about them? Well for me I would say it was 100%. I am just too busy for annual. |
| 1:37.0 | You know, Kevin, that's what it comes down to. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, I just, you know, originally my mentor, his name is Jim Kobulleski is kind of famous for being a front yard farmer down here in Florida. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh yeah, nomatic farmer. Yeah, he does half the year in Maine, half year in Florida. |
| 1:53.4 | His mentor is Elliot Coleman. |
| 1:55.8 | And he makes a living farming in his front yard. |
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