You know we've recently had a lot of conversations here on the show about planting more natives

and of course natives depend on where you live so native to you.

So myself here in San Diego I might have a different entire set of natives that I might

be planting compared to our guest today who is Brianna Bosch of Blossom and Branch Farm.

I know we've given a little primer written on your farm but you have these fields where

you're growing flowers but then you also have this wooded section and you're also doing

sort of a regenerative flower ag style approach and so obviously I would imagine natives

make a pretty big piece of that strategy right?

For sure especially Colorado I mean we're dealing with drought situations and you know

there's always water is always an issue here and maybe not so much for you lucky you.

But for us water has become especially in the last three years a huge problem.

So we kind of started yeah going down that road of like how do we diversify and also

how do we safeguard the farm from you know say in two or three years it's totally feasible

that urban farms get cut from being able to access the water that we need.

We have an ag ditch which is super helpful but our ag ditch water is super salty we have

to invest in this huge filter and then if we don't get the snow pack we need we don't

get that water either so it's like whether we're using city water or ag water there's

just water issues and so that's kind of what led us to start down that path of like okay

what can we grow that requires little water and a lot of that stuff is just happens to

be native to our area so that's kind of where it started and now it's turned into this

whole other escapade you know where now I have all these like rants against invasive plants

and and all of that stuff that happens on my page but you've heard me ramp up more.

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