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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Upcycle Native Soil Fertilizer

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

After a week of dropping juicy gardening knowledge on all of us, Jared shares his story: how did he end up making a fertilizer with spent beer grains, human waste, and algae? And what does it mean for your garden? More About Upcycle Native Soil Fertilizer: Upcycle & Company Buy Native Soil Fertilizer Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the final episode this week with

0:03.5

Jared my friend from Upcycle Native Soil Fertilizer. Now I hope you've

0:07.5

enjoyed the last six episodes. We have dropped what I consider to be some

0:11.5

serious knowledge bombs about gardening, soil, fertilizers, etc.

0:16.0

And today we're going to hear from Jared, how did he start this company?

0:19.0

What prompted him to get into this world?

0:21.0

Because he was in a very different world in the past and now he's doing this so how did he get there what makes this fertilizer something special and this is something that I actually use currently in my garden as we speak right now.

0:33.1

I'm growing kale, cauliflower,

0:35.3

cilantro, and I'm doing some side by side testing.

0:38.0

So you're gonna see that soon,

0:39.1

but let's just say the results have been pretty dang good.

0:41.7

So I'm gonna let Jared hop in here, share share his story and tell you a little bit about the fertilizer.

0:48.0

All right, thanks Kevin. It's great to be back on Epic Gardening today.

0:51.0

Excited again to just come in and chat a little bit about our background and why we're

0:55.3

here right now and where we're going.

0:57.1

Growing up, I always wanted to be involved in protecting the environment in some way and I originally

1:01.9

thought coming out of college that was going to be as an environmental lawyer.

1:05.0

Didn't get into the law school I wanted to go to and I took the dean's advice and that was go get some good work experience.

1:10.0

You know become a big kid.

1:12.0

Come back in five years and then we can talk about me

1:14.8

of reapplying so I could actually share something with the classroom and he had a

1:17.8

good point because I didn't know anything other than my own you know youthful

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