What Is Micro Food Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In small spaces, growing micro may be the only way to get a significant amount of food out of your space. Jen McGuinness of Frau Zinnie comes on to share her experiences. Connect With Jennifer McGuinness: Jen McGuinness is the author of the new book, Micro Food Gardening out April 13th, and also the author of the Frau Zinnie blog, where she shares her ornamental and edible gardening adventures. Pre-order Micro Food Gardening and get a special project directly from Jen’s book! Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% 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	Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:16.5	Today we have Jen McGinnis on.
0:19.4	She is the author of the new book, Microfood Gardening, It's Out April 13th.
0:24.2	So I recommend grabbing it.
0:26.1	She's also the author of the Frouzzini blog, where she shares her ornamental and edible
0:30.5	gardening adventures.
0:31.5	So, Jen, it's great to have you on and actually, just to start us off, I'm really curious
0:35.4	how you came up with the name for Frouzzini, the blog.
0:39.8	Thank you so much for having me, I'm so happy to be here.
0:44.3	So for Frouzzini, that's a funny story.
0:46.1	I have a little bit of German in my background and I wanted to come up with a name for a blog
0:54.0	that would be catchy and different.
0:55.9	So way back in 2011, I guess it was, I started looking to see what would translate into
1:03.2	Mrs. Zinnia and then I figured out Frouzzini through Google Translate.
1:09.3	Luckily, it seems to have taken and it works.
1:12.1	So ever since then, I've just adapted to being Frouzzini and I guess you can figure
1:17.9	out what my favorite flower is then.
1:20.1	Honestly, it's one of mine as well, mostly because it's actually quite easy to grow.
1:23.9	So when I got into flowers, I went for the easy ones and Zinnia was up there.
1:28.0	I will confess, and I'm sure you probably get this, at the beginning, before we connected
1:33.4	and you did an interview with me and this and that, we got to know each other a little
1:36.8	bit, I actually just thought your name was Zinnie for a while.
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