Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin Aspiratu here.

We have Zach Locke's back on the show, Farmer, Educator, and Author, so Zach has run his

own farm.

He's run a commercial market garden, but Zach, these days, you're doing something a little

bit different, though, it still would be classed as a farm, right?

Yeah, for sure.

Right now, my focus is mostly on fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs, and nurturing them in

ways where I'm both trialing them for my climate, you know, I'm in the zone four, hard in zone

four, and also then when I see what does well, making sure that I have a lot of that available

on the farm to use in projects.

So both as a edible ecosystem designer installer, as well as for some of the work I do with

the ecosystem solution institute, where we go in and develop, you know, demonstration sites

to help influence and educate people about, you know, good farming practices about good

design practices.

So that's what I'm doing now.

I'm doing a lot of research and development and nurturing of good tree stock.

How have you found anything, well, first of all, how long does it take to do research

in that area?

Because we're talking fruit trees and berries.

So I'm imagining it's taking you, you know, a season or two to even get some good data

in, right?

Yeah, no pain, no game, buddy.

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