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Welcome to the Organic Gardener Podcast today it’s Friday, July 27, 2018! Kara is a listener and a farmer and a gardener and a ROCKSTAR MILLENNIAL! here to share her farming and gardening journey raising pigs and eating healthy. Kara Kosloski Raspberries Tell us a little about yourself. I’m from Michigan, that’s where I lived till now. I work in marketing I worked at Fair State University in Marketing. It’s my full time day job I have married for 10 years. My husband and I like doing anything outdoors. hunting farming I’m big into holistic health, all in general exercise spirituality gardening anything I can eat! So we connected in the Facebook group, and my big question is how did you find the Facebook Group, it never occurred to me that there are people in groups that don’t listen to the host’s podcast. So do you listen to the podcast? So, I have an hour commute to work, 2 hours a day I’m driving. I discovered podcasts, to just pass the time, and I said what am I into?  I’m into gardening! That’s what I listen to, I started doing a search, I started listening and that’s how I found your Facebook group because you must have mentioned it on the podcast. I just love podcasting because of that! And I’m so glad you’re here and you probably know how I start the show! Tell me about your first gardening experience? So, my previous job I worked at the YMCA.  We had just started a community garden though a grant! I had always been interested in gardening. I never gardened as a kid so I joined the committee as a liaison through business hoping I could learn some more about I started with a 10 x 20 plot. What they did for the gardeners is they split halfway organic/non-organic. So I thought how do you keep the organic side, the good from the other side? https://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/farming-systems-trial/ () That’s how the https://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/farming-systems-trial/ (Rodale’s Farm Test Trial) started about 40 years ago. I’ve been doing lots of experiments this year, I just started some fall brocolli plants, putting some seeds indoors and some outside. Since it was my first experience It went relatively well for a first garden I had trouble keeping up with the weeds! learning experience for me how do I plant? how do I maintain things? so exciting to see things grow the next year my husband and I 15 acres at home scouted out our spot. The best spot we had We tilled up about a 40x 40 ‘ section It’s more then enough for me That’s what I’ve been using for years now What makes you say it may have not been the best spot? So, as things have been growing we realized there are a couple of sections that don’t grow real well and we realized we are right in between 4 giant walnut trees. Is it because of shade or do walnut trees put off something? Yes, it’s poisonous to any kind of plants that grow around it can’t grow by the root, I think as the trees got bigger, the roots expanded in sections We started to look for a new spot, the spot where we had the pigs last year, we are hoping would be a lot of nutrient rich soil in there, and we planted some rye as a cover crop so hopefully, it will be a good garden spot next year. I love this, because so many people have talked about volunteering being essential to their success… Robin Kelson, Angel Garbarino, and Vicki Henderson, all listeners said they learned so much from working with others.    How did you learn how to garden organically? I did learn a little bit from the other gardeners there because it was a community plot there was maybe 20 plots available, so there were a lot of other gardeners so that was part of the fun you weren’t alone look at what was growing how they set up trellises what kind of watering system they have the experience there I’m a big research read, research and then Support this podcast