The Farmers of the Future
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast and to the final episode |
| 0:05.7 | with Tobias Peg of Square Root Grow. We've gotten into quite a bit of detail |
| 0:11.5 | about the process and really expanded the conversation past just |
| 0:15.1 | the nuts and bolts of growing greens, tomatoes, etc. in a hydroponic environment. |
| 0:20.4 | We've talked about the business model, we've talked about the future of farming, |
| 0:24.0 | and in today's episode we're bringing it back down to you, the listener, |
| 0:28.0 | and talking a little bit about how they are developing the next generation of farmers. |
| 0:34.4 | And specifically, with the program named |
| 0:37.5 | Next Gen Farmer Training Program, |
| 0:39.8 | it's a really interesting sort of composite of different training programs you might see out there. |
| 0:45.8 | I think there's certainly some courses on how to grow greens and produce in an urban environment. |
| 0:51.0 | There's certainly courses on how to be an entrepreneur, |
| 0:53.0 | certainly courses on how to be a leader. Very few I think roll all these things into |
| 0:57.0 | one really core awesome piece of curriculum and that's what we're going to talk |
| 1:02.1 | about today and so we're going to close out the episodes this week with Tobias talking about that and leaving you guys with a little gardening inspiration. |
| 1:10.0 | So thank you so much for tuning in. Let's go ahead and listen in. |
| 1:14.0 | I would love for you to go into a little more detail about that because a lot of people that listen to the podcast |
| 1:20.0 | are potentially looking to turn their love of plants into an actual career. |
| 1:24.8 | I've had my friend Stephen on who does like a backyard market garden so just another |
| 1:30.2 | iteration on the on the local food movement we've had |
| 1:33.5 | hydroponic farmers on before so I think a lot of people would love to know |
| 1:36.6 | about it so would you mind just kind of talking a little bit about what that is? |
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