Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here we are back with Jordan

of Mind and Soil. They are a company that provides natural organic gardening products.

One of their flagships right now at least is worm castings. So I would highly recommend

you check them out. Jordan you were telling me a little bit about this fund that you've

put together. It seems like every gardening company I think this is a fantastic thing.

Has some kind of program to just get people in the game and it sounds like you have one

as well. Yeah totally so you know at the core of what lights me up so much about what

we're building is helping introduce individuals to gardening so that they can feel again

it's like how calming how restorative it is and it's been so amazing seeing so many

folks experience that but there's also you know individuals that may not have the resources

to be able to do so on their own and so early on like I was literally buying gardening

supplies for people on my personal credit card just be like I believe in this so much

I want you to experience it and what I realized as our community started to grow is that

like so many of these individuals they've experienced just how kind of calming peaceful restorative

gardening can be and I wouldn't be surprised if they want to help bring that to other people

as well and so I decided to set up our growth together fund where individuals in our community

can basically contribute towards that fund and then we allocate and direct them towards

individuals initiatives projects for folks that might not have the means to do so or to

get into gardening on their own and so this you know this past 2021 season in just one

of like the gardening Facebook groups that I'm a member of there was a lady who is kind of the

the live-in resident at a woman's recovery home and she posted that they really wanted to transform

their backyard into a garden but she had no idea what to do where to get started how to go about

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