Why I started Gardening vs Why I've Continued Gardening.

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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When Emily started gardening, She felt her brain coming back to life. Now it has a lot to do with her children, and how they know the source of the foods they eat. Maybe the reason a person begins gardening changes over time, but that makes growing plants enriching. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4dECDWV Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4as9dZl Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4bndkqK EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4dYWO23 Learn More:Raised Bed Gardening: 7 Beginner TipsConnect With Emily Grohovsky:Emily is a self-taught gardener who owns a thriving kitchen garden business in Madison, MS. She and her husband, Brad, build and install custom, turnkey, raised-bed kitchen gardens and then Emily teaches her clients how to grow food in them. Her motto is "green thumbs are not natural. They are learned." Her goal is to teach anyone that they too can grow fresh, organic food without all of the overwhelm. Website Instagram YouTube Zone 8 Planting Calendar 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 The Beet Podcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've helped so many people gardening, so I'd love to hear your story.
0:17.0	How did you start gardening and what made you become the gardener that you are today that's now helping empower so many
0:24.2	people to grow food at home? Yeah so I think I shared a little bit before that I
0:29.7	started during COVID because I had you know two boys and I was at home and I'm pretty open
0:35.1	about my story like when I talked to people about I just had my second son and
0:40.1	had some postpart of depression that I had never dealt with before and so I just
0:44.8	began gardening because I thought I don't I can't find anything that's negative about
0:49.2	gardening other than the weeds and so for me it was just very life-giving. It was very invigorating and I just kind of felt my brain like coming back to life.
0:58.0	And we could do a whole entire podcast on all the studies that show what gardening does your
1:06.0	mental health just simply from the microbes in the soil but that was why I
1:11.5	started gardening.
1:12.6	And then I began to become a little bit addicted
1:16.0	to the fact that like the taste of the food was so much better.
1:20.7	And I was saving some money on you know herbs and certain things like that but I always
1:25.4	tell my clients like I would never mislead you to think that you're going to save
1:30.2	$10,000 on tomatoes if you grow a garden.
1:33.5	Like this is not what this is about.
1:35.3	No.
1:36.2	Unless you're going to like start selling at the farmers market
1:38.7	and doing this full time.
1:40.0	But the full circle moment for me was two years after I had my garden.
1:45.6	We had a really big ice storm and that's not typical in Mississippi.
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