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I know you are a going to love this interview I did with RockStar Millennial  Nick Lubecki as much as I did because I listened to it today as I drove to work. So the shownotes are  completely raw from the day we actually spoke. I didn’t have time to fix them but they are great! I have 20 episodes in the bank I can’t wait to share. In an ideal world, I would share them all right away! But in reality it’s all I can usually do to produce one a week. I will try though to get them caught up so they are current! In the meantime I hope you enjoy as much as I do. I’ve been having some sound problems too it seems in Andony’s podcast last week I thought I was too loud, this one I feel like I am can’t always hear everything I say? I’m as frustrated as you are that way, as I just copy and save everything, the settings don’t really change? I feel like ever since January 2018 I’ve been struggling with my sound? But I think you will love the content as much as I enjoyed recording it! Happy Spring Everyone! Tuesday February 5th, 2019 Today we have a rockstar millennial Nick Lubecki from https://www.growpittsburgh.org/ (Grow Pittsburgh) who is giving a presentation on Learning Circle: Weed Management in Intensive Veggie Production. https://www.growpittsburgh.org/ () Tell us a little about yourself. Right now I am the Farm Manager which is a project of https://www.growpittsburgh.org/ (Grow Pittsburgh) https://www.growpittsburgh.org/ () urban nonprofit help people start community gardens around the county we have 2 urban farms Currently I manage the Braddock farm about an acre or so borough of Braddock town just outside  Pittsburgh last remaining steel mill in the next door It reminds me of the Brooklyn Grange on your website with the urban mill and the farm together. Yeah! It’s a great photo shot for sure! Tell me about your first gardening experience? my first memory visiting grandparents in northern PA They had a huge garden fruit trees sunflowers all that sort of thing as a kid I was really excited about that! at our home, my grandmother helped put together our first big garden, Imust have been 5-6 years old.  Do you have brothers and sisters? Yeah, we were all involved at first, eventually became me and my brother and we’re still growing together today! we are about an hour about north of the city! I’ve been gardening for a while! Tell us about that. How does a millennial come to be growing as an adult. grow subsistence crops corn I had that as a background as a child the thing I liked to do with my free time was hangout out in the garden and in the backyard When I moved to Pittsburgh to go to school I missed it. As soon as I could I got gardening again gardens a couple of years then got a couple of urban community gardens growing At some point, I remember working at a grocery store not being very satisfied with my life.  I’ve always been into homesteading and wanted to grow all your own food and preserve it decided to try to work on a farm so I quit my job and got a job on a farm in central PA been doing that every sense big step from gardening to working on a 6 acre vegetable farm what I wanted to do love watching the plants grow and being able to take it back and cook with it worked on farms start my first farm in 2012 had an urban farm with a couple of friends in the city and did that for a year some one had an urban farm hadn’t been used in a bit. They weren’t using Got a start out there after that season I was sold on it. Later started a bigger farm equipment great way to get a taste of doing our own thing after that season sold did that for a couple of years I know my listeners are wondering, our goal is to grow enough food for us to eat to supplement our produce at least. do you have any tips for going through that curve.  I found it... Support this podcast