Returning to the Family Potato Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Neither Ty nor his brothers wanted to be potato farmers like their dad, but after 10 years and a successful sales career, he decided to return home and carry on the family legacy. Today, he has acquired even more land dedicated to the second-largest potato farm in British Columbia. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4674Uk2 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ZbKLal Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Zb0436 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3r8FRyo Learn More: Potato Growth Stages: How Fast Do Potato Plants Grow? Connect With Tyler Heppell: Tyler Heppell is a 5th generation Potato farmer from British Columbia Canada. He grew up on the potato farm but when he left for University he said he was never going to come back. After 10 years he returned to the family farm with a goal to reduce food waste and educate others about how farming works. He now has over 600,000 followers online posting daily farming content. Instagram TikTok Website Shop the Store As 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. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking 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 Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You guys know if you've listened to this podcast or consumed our content for a while, I have
0:06.3	referred to myself as the potato daddy for my love of this incredible plant, the fact
0:11.4	that I tried to live off of it for an entire month of my life, and I just absolutely love
0:15.5	growing it.
0:16.5	And, you know, I thought that was who I was until I met Tyler Heppel, who's a fifth-generation
0:20.4	potato farmer from British Columbia, Canada, called himself Potato Ty, and I realized, maybe
0:25.7	I'm still the daddy, but you're certainly the king, Ty.
0:28.4	And it's great to have you on the show.
0:30.1	I've learned so much from your content, and I'm ready to be educated on the world of potatoes.
0:35.2	Awesome.
0:36.2	Thank you so much for having me, Kevin, and you know, we can both be potato daddies.
0:39.9	There are a lot of potato daddies in the world.
0:43.7	And yeah, I'm just really thankful to kind of be in the farming world.
0:47.1	I think the more creators that I learn in the agricultural section, the more thankful
0:51.2	I am to be in this part of the internet, but I never thought I was going to be a farmer
0:56.2	to be honest with you.
0:57.8	So I grew up on our potato farm.
1:00.6	It's 103 years old, so I'm a fifth-generation potato farmer, and I think my dad thought
1:06.9	that he hit the lottery when he had three sons, but his just made.
1:11.2	None of us wanted to come back to the farm after high school.
1:14.4	And I left the family farm and went and got a degree, and then started working in sales,
1:20.4	and really was hitting my stride in sales, and never thought that I would come back to
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