The Internet of the Soil
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We know so little about soil. It's honestly incredibly exciting. Pete talks about the interconnected nature of the soil and how to nurture and foster the underground ecosystem.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:15.4 | podcast. Kevin here we've got our final episode at least for right now with |
| 0:19.4 | Pete Canaris of Green Dreams. So he's an edible landscaper and a permaculturist out of Florida. He's done some really |
| 0:25.9 | awesome stuff on small and large scales. He was talking yesterday about some really large projects |
| 0:30.7 | he's done. Out of curiosity, Pete, like what is the actual largest project you've done for a client? |
| 0:37.8 | The large install we've done is probably three and a half acres. |
| 0:42.4 | You know, that was on a 10 acre site, waterfront, really nice, beautiful area. |
| 0:48.0 | And the homeowner basically wanted to create a home-based value-added business with shipping, you know, fruits |
| 0:56.4 | from the farm direct sale boxes to people's houses and you know here we are five years later and |
| 1:01.7 | he is shipping product. I'm actually buying material |
| 1:05.1 | back from this client actually today so you know we planted about 35 different |
| 1:09.8 | varieties of bananas on this property. Wow with everything that's happened this year with the gardening movement, |
| 1:16.0 | craze and everything being sold out, he's become one of my suppliers for bananas |
| 1:21.0 | because I can't find them anywhere else. |
| 1:22.0 | So, you know, here I charge this homeowner. for bananas because I can't find them anywhere else. |
| 1:22.6 | So here I charge this homeowner, you know, whatever per tree five years ago to plant them and |
| 1:28.0 | I've bought 10 of each of those trees back now. |
| 1:30.7 | Oh, so funny. |
| 1:31.9 | That's hilarious. Yeah, that's actually quite quite a cool experience I would imagine, right? |
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