Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast everyone. We have a very special guest on for the next week.

She was on, I believe in the very very, very beginning of the epic gardening podcast.

Now it's really like two to three years ago, which is crazy to think about, daily

episodes for two to three years, but Bridget Pena is back on from San Diego Seed Company and you

know it's some interesting times right now Bridgette and you know I would first

all I'd love to know how San Diego Seed company has evolved over the last couple years

but then maybe we could speak about kind of what's going on in the the gardening

world right now

for sure well first of all thank you you. You said my name beautifully. It was spot on. It took a few years to learn. You just, it's amazing. Thank you.

It's been a long time since I have had the pleasure of being on your podcast and when we spoke all those years ago, you know, we had the seed company had still been around for several years, but we had just moved into our one-acre farm.

And so we've been here for three years now.

It's certified organic.

So we've seen a huge increase in what we get to produce for our catalog and for our growers.

And then we've also seen a big change in people really trying to support local, not just when it comes to food but then also to seed and

part of that push has been us really reaching out with education and

getting people to understand that you can't have local food without local

seed.

So we've seen a big change in consumer mentality and just people's ideas around Seed.

And then, of course, in the last two,

is it been two weeks?

I don't even know.

I don't know what day it is anymore,

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