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🗓️ 15 June 2020
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It seems odd that a term like “natural farming” would even exist, but it’s a vast world of techniques and inputs that has a lot of practical application in your veggie garden. Marco Thomas joins us this week to dive deep.
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Marco Thomas is a natural farmer, focused on building soil and cultivating microorganisms to enhance his garden and farm. You can find him at Microbes by Marco or on Instagram at @marco_is_growing.
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0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We've got a really cool |
0:17.8 | week of episodes with a guest that I first got in touch with here on Instagram. |
0:23.7 | So his Instagram handle is Marco is |
0:26.6 | growing. |
0:28.1 | His name is Marco Thomas, and he's a natural farmer. |
0:30.6 | So he's focused on building soil, |
0:32.4 | cultivating microorganisms to enhance his garden and farm. |
0:35.4 | And really we talk always about feeding the soil, not the plants. |
0:39.2 | And so that's what we're here with Marco to talk about. |
0:41.8 | So Marco, thanks for coming on, man. |
0:44.0 | Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having. Yeah, no problem. So I think it probably makes |
0:48.4 | sense at the beginning of this week of episodes to talk about, you know, how did you get into this whole game and really what is natural farming? |
0:58.2 | So I kind of got into natural farming probably about four years ago as it's taught by Master Cho. |
1:08.5 | Before I got somewhat of a background in forest near soil biology. Those were my majors in college and I've always |
1:17.0 | had gardens because my parents did you know growing up. When I first heard the way that they were doing it overseas with |
1:25.0 | Master Cho and the actual Korean natural farming techniques and really got my |
1:31.6 | interest sparked because you know so much of what you hear is relying on chemicals and they're totally against |
1:41.2 | chemicals you know their main thing is do as nature does. I've always |
1:44.8 | been big on nature. I've always been an outdoors kind of person so it just kind of |
1:51.4 | fit with where I was at the time and what direction I felt like that was going so |
1:56.6 | My definition is more |
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