What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are here with

Brian from Never Enough Dirt and we're kind of keeping on that theme of

getting historical in our gardening and specifically today we're

talking about some heirloom plants and I think Brian to start it off we could maybe

talk a little bit about why even care about Erlums, right?

Because there's definitely a lot of trends in agriculture that are perhaps deleting the

demand for Erlums, certainly if you're buying from a grocery store so I'm curious

about your thoughts on that first yeah the way to really enjoy food and to really

make use of growing your own is to grow

heirloom varieties because these are varieties that were

probably once bred and marketed for taste and flavor

and this is a complete contrast to our modern food industry,

which is food that's bred to look big.

They're watered down, they don't have a lot of flavor, and they're bred to be able to ship well.

So sometimes you give up flavor and quality when you are able to ship long distances and just handle all

the throwing and roughing.

Yeah, yeah, I think that's a really important point and I think most of us listening to the podcast will know this because we're at least attempting to grow our own food is that a lot of the varieties that are grown commercially are grown for reasons other than flavor.

And if you're a gardener who's really focused on the kitchen, are grown for reasons other than flavor.

And if you're a gardener who's really focused on the kitchen,

then heirlooms can, they don't always taste better,

but they can be a really good way to access some pretty unique flavors that are very

contrasted from I guess what you would normally buy at a grocery store.

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