The New Victory Garden
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
What if we designed gardens for health and longevity? How would that look? Brandon Youst of Boostrap Farmer explains in today’s show.
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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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