So, You Wanna Be An Urban Farmer?
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Urban farming sounds like a dreamy way to live, and it’s certainly something I’ve been interested in for quite a while. But what’s the reality? How much work does it actually take. Today we hear from Greg Peterson on his urban farming journey.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We are back again with Farmer |
| 0:06.6 | Greg from the Urban Farm and Urban Farm Podcast and to say Urban Farm a third time we will be talking about becoming an |
| 0:14.7 | urban farmer in today's show so Greg I think it would be really cool you we've talked |
| 0:19.7 | a little bit about your Urban Farm and all the different components that you've got |
| 0:23.9 | going on because it's much more than I would say an urban garden where you just have a |
| 0:28.4 | plot in a suburban you know home you've integrated a lot of different things to it and I'd love to get that |
| 0:34.8 | bird's eye view of how your farm and home sort of are integrated together. |
| 0:39.8 | You got me speechless there. I don't even know that I can answer that because they're so |
| 0:46.9 | integrated that they just start together. It's the same thing. Yeah. It's the same thing. |
| 0:52.0 | So when you hit me with that question, it's like, wow, hold on how do I separate them because I can't first of all my entire life is about teaching people how to grow their own food. |
| 1:00.0 | Secondly, a third of an acre, so a third of an acre is 80 feet wide and 160 feet deep. |
| 1:07.0 | And there's 70 fruit trees, there's chickens, there's, you know, there's a, it's an urban farm and you know and then when we have an abundance of |
| 1:16.7 | anything you know it goes inside the house and gets prepped for saving for later like we did with Aprilcots and peaches is here. |
| 1:26.6 | Right now we have a sick chicken. |
| 1:29.6 | She's got some kind of respiratory thing going on and so we don't leave her out in 110 degrees we |
| 1:34.1 | actually bring her in so we have one of our bathrooms the bathtub has got a |
| 1:39.3 | chicken in it so really separating these two out is I don't know that I can do it. |
| 1:47.0 | Sure, okay, well how about this then? Let's rewind the clock and go back in time and think about when you were sort of making that integration, right? |
| 1:58.0 | Because there was a point in your life where you just lived in a normal home, I I would assume and when I say normal I just mean the |
| 2:06.3 | average Americans home right there's not chickens there there's not |
| 2:09.0 | rainwater harvesting you don't have a thriving garden, no compost pile, and if that's me today or if that's a listener today, |
| 2:17.0 | how do they even think about making the transformation? |
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