Urban Farming - Demystifying Dirt for City Slickers

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Chickens don’t just have a practical function, they are also super fun! AJ and Jordan have found that chickens changed their connection to food. They’ve also enriched their lives with their personalities, and their desire for attention. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QtbiNm Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QupRAf Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3WoZgZ0 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/44qJWNw Learn More. 14 Ways Backyard Chicken Save Your Garden and the WordConnect With Jordan Barnes:Jordan: Jordan is the co-founder and creative force behind Coop. She brings an unconventional wealth of expertise to the world of agtech, with Coop's mission to blend innovation with tradition, making high-tech farming both accessible and delightful. You can usually find her whipping up gourmet meals for her favorite hens, 4 Rhode Island Reds, with a spicy ranch water in hand.AJ Forsythe: AJ is the co-founder and original visionary behind coop, on a mission building the world's largest decentralized food production network. His journey from beekeeping to winemaking led to founding the world's largest on-demand repair and trade-in network, and earning a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. His passion for chickens started accidentally when he rescued a chicken from a meat market in LA and brought it back to Cal Poly on the train. Instagram Website Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today my friends, urban farming, urban gardening. I will be honest. I was
0:17.1	obsessed with urban farming well before I quit my job and went full time on
0:21.8	epic gardening. In fact, I thought I was going to farm in front yards.
0:24.7	I thought I would hit up my neighbors and ask them for $1 leases on their lawns, convert those lawns to farms,
0:30.7	aggregate all the produce, and then sell it to restaurants.
0:33.6	I did not do it because I decided to try to pay some bills by creating a little blog called
0:39.5	Epic Gardening and here we are today.
0:41.5	And we have A.J. and Jordan back on the show. They're the
0:44.5	founders of Coop, a smart chicken coop and so much more and maybe we'll talk a
0:49.1	little bit about that in today's episode guys, but we are kind of going to this
0:52.3	urban farming angle and to me it
0:54.8	intersects very much with what you guys do backyard chicken keeping, backyard
0:59.4	gardening, both being these kind of like grassroots independent movements that I think a lot of people
1:05.6	if you've never garden never kept chickens it actually looks quite intimidating and quite sort of weird and then all of a sudden whatever that in point is for you once you get it
1:15.6	fast forward a couple of years and then you look like the exact person that intimidated you
1:18.9	you know two years prior so I don't know I'm curious your guys perspective. Yeah, I mean you mentioned Epic Garden's goals to teach the world to grow.
1:27.5	I think that's like brilliant and inspiring. Like our goal at Coop is how do we get anyone with a backyard that wants to to be able to raise chickens and like you don't need much
1:38.6	much land to raise chickens like literally if you have a backyard you can get started with four to six are like we have a very strong belief that there's millions of people that want to raise chickens but they don't know where to start and we try to handhold everyone through it from like delivery and setup comes with chickens.
1:58.2	We're working with, you mentioned like Grublies was on the show recently that we're working with Grubly's to like for treats. We're working drop-shipping food to you. So it's like we're trying to make it term key for anyone that is chicken curious to be able to raise chickens.
2:12.7	And I could not be more excited.
2:14.7	I get to wake up and smile and laugh every day
2:17.7	that I get to work on this.
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