What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We've got Pete Canaris back here again of Green Dreams. He's an

edible landscaper, permaculturist. We've been talking a little bit about weeds over the last

couple of episodes and we're switching gears a little bit. We're saying with a garden you're not just feeding yourself.

And funnily enough, Pete, our last guest Ian McKenna was taking that in quite a literal way where he was donating produce to people in need

But I have a feeling that you're taking a different tack with this saying here.

I am taking a little bit of a different curve with this Kevin.

Thanks for having me on and I guess I start all my videos off with what's growing on.

So yeah, so with the

the garden you aren't just feeding yourself and I feel like this is the biggest

overlooked step and with that I mean you, we're not just planting for ourselves.

You know, we're planting for the beneficial and the predatory insects.

You know, and with good forests that we're creating, you know, it's about creating a diverse ecosystem and you know I get clients all the time

that watch my videos and get excited and they come out here and they buy fruit trees

and shipless for trees and they send the pictures of the backyard and you know see six for trees in a row.

You know, like, we're all their friends, you know, and you know, if we look at nature and we look

in the woods, you know, it's very diverse diverse it's very multi species you know nothing is a

monoculture in nature unless it was you know planted by us you know so I can't

express you know how important it is to plant for the beneficial in the

predatory insects you know we want to promote that stuff you know we want to

attract the parasitic was the lace ladybugs, the butterflies, the bees, you know, that's how we start

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