Urban Population Growth And Food Security

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today we zoom out and talk about larger issues than our veggie gardens: urban popular growth and how that impacts food security and sourcing in urban centers. Of course, one good solution is to grow more of your own...but is that enough? Connect With Chris Starkus: After being a professional chef for 25 years, Chris Starkus pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and CSO of Boss Defrost. He is also a Journeyman beekeeper, Organic Farmer, committed to 360-degree sustainability and transparency. Boss Defrost (Instagram) Chris Starkus' Instagram | Twitter Lost Creek Microfarm | Instagram |Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, up everyone,
0:04.0	what's up,
0:05.0	what's up?
0:07.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I hope you're doing
0:16.7	awesome. I certainly am and we are joined again by Chris Starkus. So Chris was a professional chef for 25 years, most recently executive chef at urban farmer.
0:27.0	Denver has recently pivoted his career and he has become an eco-entrepreneur.
0:31.0	He's a partner and chief sales officer of a company called
0:34.5	Boss Defrost, which we will certainly talk about in this week of episodes. And he's got a
0:39.4	diverse range of skills in the world of food preparation and cultivation.
0:43.7	He's a journeyman beekeeper and organic farmer.
0:46.3	So there's a lot going on in Chris's world.
0:49.1	And I thought one thing that we did yesterday, Chris, which was really interesting, is kind of
0:52.4	zoom out a little bit and talk
0:53.8	about some of the larger topics that can trickle down and affect us in the garden or in the farm
0:59.6	or honestly even in the kitchen.
1:01.0	And so today the topic is the boom and growth of
1:04.4	urban populations and how that affects the way that we source and and produce food.
1:10.0	Mm-hmm. Yes absolutely I you know I think that there's a couple things there, you know, when I was in
1:15.9	Portland, Oregon, I was urban farming on a rooftop 16 stories up. We had 10 beds and six hives up there. We had 10 beds and six hives up there and it was interesting just to kind
1:26.6	of see what you could grow in 10 inches of soil. And so as you know that was the original
1:32.4	thought and then of course as I've gone deeper this the So that was the original thought.
1:32.8	And then of course, as I've gone deeper, this,
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