If you are a cold climate grower, you will have probably done an experience that I've

never done, which is salting the driveway or the roads or, you know, honestly, Brad,

who's back on the podcast, the founder of MinnesotaGuarding.com, can you break that down for

me? I'm like, are you salting your driveway? Are you salting? I know that the roads can sometimes

get salted, right? Yeah, it's a foreign concept for a lot of folks that are in Southern

climate. That's for sure that we toss all down. And what it does is it keeps you apply

salt, which lowers the freezing temperature of that water. And so you put salt down and

that anywhere you've got generally slippery situations, icy situations, that kind of

stuff. It comes very important this time of year as we get warmer and the sun gets stronger

and we have some melting and refreezing that keeps that area from being super dangerous.

Yeah, makes sense. So it's sort of a mandatory thing where you live, but it sounds like there

could be some kind of gnarly garden consequences as a result, right? Yeah, exactly. It's

a safety-wise. I'm going to give it a nearly mandatory. There are definitely practices

and ways that we encourage people to reduce that amount of salt that they're using. But

the harm comes from salt in a couple of different ways as it has really gotten more used over

the last couple of decades. And so our Minnesota pried itself on clean water and we've got land

of 10,000 lakes. And I'll be a little bit of a Minnesota evangelist here for a second,

but it's a beautiful thing. Our summers are incredible. And a lot of that is our lakes and

our water that we've got. And we have are getting a lot of impaired, like right now in Minnesota,

there are over 2,900 of our lakes, which is a good portion of them are impaired. And a

lot of that is impaired from chloride. And that comes from salt when we salt the road.

And when people put salt down on their driveways and sidewalks. And it's really a negative

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