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Sorry folks, I edited this on the road so the show notes are incomplete and only come in at the last half but most important links we talk about are there. Thanks always for listening. This Bonus Episode with Joe Lamp’l is awesome full of tons of golden seeds and most of all inspiration on this Earth Day! This weeks episode with Larry Tse from Dig Inns is one you won’t want to miss either. Two amazing gardeners and stewards of our planet you will love both of these episodes about sustainable living and caring for our planet! Joe Lamp’l from the https://joegardener.com/ (Joe Gardener Show) Featured host of https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/ (GROWING A GREENER WORLD) I edited this on the road this weekend so the show notes start out at Getting to the Root of Things this morning! http://awesomescienceactionclub.com/ () http://awesomescienceactionclub.com/ (Join the Awesome Science Action Club today!) https://goodseedco.net/ () https://goodseedco.net/ (Good Seed Company)   Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden? kind of weird harvesting so much out there to harvest figure out what to do with it if I haven’t planned for it clock of peak of freshness where I’m gonna go whos’ coming to get it love to grow it harvesting you want ample http://harvest.org (harvest.org) what to do with that produce don’t want it to go bad online search food pantries in your area take in that produce only have so many hours take it in made available to those who need it fresh produce food pantry http://ampleharvest.org/ (ample harvest ) Gary Oppenhower has dedicated  make sure people don’t grow hungry that are unnecessarily, that are your neighbors. What is your favorite activity to do in the garden? I like planting and watching it grow obviously it’s not like you see it happen before your eyes healthy garden every day is different in the early morning quiet just us out there with the plants there’s so much to see to me that’s how you really learn how plants work see the water droplets coming off the margins of your tomato leaves why is that that’s the water pumping up through the margins of the leaves that’s a phenonomenom take the time to understand good sign there’s enough moisture in the soil  telling me the plant is healthy morning walks with my coffee time to commune with your plants my favorite thing everyday opportunity to spend time in the garden make those observational  I swear sometime before your eyes. There’s some days in the heat of the day I feel like it grows 3″ in a day. We have really long days, in June on the equinox June 22, the sun is out til like 11pm and it drives me crazy. What is the best gardening advice you have ever received? feed the soil let the soil feed the plants! It just plants the health of the plants pest disease resistance vigor productivity is all related to how healthy your soil is super star gardeners make our soil healthier compost make it yourself so many things beyond making great soil your also taking waste out of the waste stream It’s the best soil input make at home why wouldn’t you want to do it?! Oh by the way it keeps it out of the landfill and reduces carbon dioxide we aren’t all doing that It’s a little bit of work and extra things to do on your to do list do it with compost it’s the best in fact people don’t compost because they think its too complicated happens in nature IDK, I just don’t know that it’s extra work. In my apartment there’s probably 2 month’s worth of garbage there, but what’s in there, nothing but paper? I don’t throw anything away that’s gonna smell or rot. It drives me crazy to me it’s not extra work it’s just sorting.  It’s gonna make it lighter. To say nothing of... Support this podcast