The New Victory Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What if we designed gardens for health and longevity? How would that look? Brandon Youst of Boostrap Farmer explains in today’s show. Connect With Brandon Youst: Brandon Youst is the founder of Bootstrap Farmer, a company bringing on inventive new products for small farmers. He’s also the founder of the Urban Farm Academy, an educational arm to teach more people how to start a farm business. Bootstrap Farmer Urban Farm Academy Bootstrap Farmer Instagram Brandon’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:02.0	What's up?
0:04.0	What's up?
0:05.0	What's
0:08.0	What's up?
0:10.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here and we're back
0:17.9	with Brandon Yous, the founder of Bootstrap Farmer, the founder of the Urban Farm Academy.
0:22.2	We've been talking a lot about more
0:24.3	of the business side, specifically to farming, specific to local food, and making it practical,
0:29.5	making it actually work. We're going to take a little bit of a pattern change here and we're talking
0:34.8	about at least what you're calling the new Victory Garden Brandon.
0:38.0	Yep. So I'm actually hoping to engage your audience a little bit here and help me think about this idea because you know
0:45.6	we're Urban Farm Academy we're coming up with business models using the Farm Fusion framework
0:51.4	connecting with people in the way that they want to be connected with, you
0:54.6	know, reaching them with products they love.
0:57.4	And another way to approach this is, you know, we had the Victory Garden back in World War two days the the government
1:06.1	sort of encouraged everybody to have a garden for their family to help you know
1:11.0	mitigate with the food shortages.
1:14.0	And thinking about what that might look like in 2020 in a way to reframe that approach,
1:19.8	given all of the technology we have, all of the information we have all of the information we have I think another way to reach
1:25.8	a mass market is to think about people who are looking to optimize their health and
1:31.5	so I have this concept called growing for health and
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