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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The Farmers of the Future

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode with Tobias Peggs of Square Roots Grow, we get into how they're developing future farmers and green-movement leaders with their Next-Gen Farmer Training Program. HIGHLY recommend you check this out if you've thought of making farming or working in the future of food your life's work. Learn More: Square Roots Grow Website SRG on Instagram Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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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