What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I am joined again by

Siloue Olivera of Suburban Homestead, fantastic, smaller space, homesteading, cooking, really a sort of a Jack of All Trades YouTube

channel about gardening, which I highly recommend you check out.

So we've been talking this week about ways to get a little bit more creative I suppose in the

garden. Strategies if you're busy how you can garden in most spaces and why you should

and now I think what we're going to get into is a bit more of a sustainability angle.

And I know that when I first started out, I was growing much like I think most people would in conventional small space gardening where

you're buying tons of different products, a lot of different plastic things and

just not really thinking about the waste streams you're creating or even if you're and just

wasting money.

that's another aspect of sustainability

is being efficient and effective

with the way you spend your money in the garden too.

So, I'm sure you may have made some of these mistakes before and I'm curious

You know what what stands out to you as as you've progressed in your gardening journey.

Of course, as I'd be gone, as I would say most people,

I just bought that blue powder that's sold in stores.

I'm not going to name the name that makes things grow a lot.

Yeah. And things grow a lot and that was it and I was sold. So as I learned more about sustainability and the reasons or reasons why we need to to strive for more sustainable lives to create more local

loops of food, then I started to change my ways

and I've more and more tried to be more local

with the resources so that I'm trying to get my

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