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Tuesday, April 17, 2018 I have an innovative entrepreneur who’s doing something I know listeners are gonna love, Mike’s been bugging me to have something like and I love because I am the eater. Tell us a little about yourself. I say the little french twist on the name https://www.seedvoyage.com/ (Seed Voyage) Rookie gardener I started growing some delicious heirloom tomatoes and peppers. I’m generally an office guy. Business executive and tech Have some some younger kids, we moved out to a place where we had a little more room, so I planted a new  Tell me about your first gardening experience? Yeah, those were my first memories of gardening. I come from a European background and we tended to have a garden when I was a kid.  delicious food out of the garden most of my life I lived in the city and didn’t have a lot of property. Recently we moved out to more of the suburbs, the first opportunity to have a little bit of land, I thought let’s relive my youth.  How did you learn how to garden organically? I think back then it was just doing what made sense, I mean everything was organic till you start to screw it up with different chemicals.  I don’t think my parents did anything, back then, I think they were just buying some good seeds planting it in good soil and it all worked out very well. I’m really a novice garden buying heirloom seeds good quality triple mix nutrients no crazy chemicals I try not to overcomplicate things with my gardening mother nature Definitely a thread to my show has been healthy soil. Tat’s something people talk about it. Let’s talk about https://www.seedvoyage.com/ (Seed Voyage) and explain what it is. So really it comes from a personal interest I had my first garden since I was a kid there are some things that came to mind! These are some of the most delicious foods in my life! I have no skill gardening mother nature can do here I thought to myself I should be eating way more backyard produce ultra local that’s fresh clean a lot more of it! more from a variety limited by our garden size can’t eat a whole lot personal consumers thought to myself it would be great to eat way more stuff but on the flip side I was way impressed by my yields mainly tomatoes and peppers and herbs these cherokee purple tomateos were amazing and  oxcart tomatoes science geek I measured my yields which was more then 60lbs of tomatoes on 4 plants which was more then I could handle I enjoyed my tomatoes and wanted to sell some of my delicious surplus and buy what my neighbors are growing! https://www.seedvoyage.com/ () A lot of people grow heirloom and just a variety of things https://www.burpee.com/vegetables/cucumbers/cucumber-lemon-prod000691.html (lemon cucumbers) https://www.rareseeds.com/amarillo-carrot/ (amarillo carrots!) cucemelons things I was amazed by great to create a little bit of a local community so that when you are able to buy and sell within a few miles of your house you are really getting access to hundreds of varieties you can’t get at your local grocery store not even at a farmer’s market! concept Then a connection place where you could buy and sell https://www.seedvoyage.com/ () https://www.seedvoyage.com/ (Seed Voyage)  simple interface then it was for me fun using it something that’s too difficult talking about groceries you’re not going to spend the same amount of effort when going out to buy a car initial thought we need something that’s really simple pricing simplicity On the site everything is offered for $5 can get complicated per pound per ounce number of tomatoes and a bunch The grower will offer what they believe is fair value for $5 buyers will either accept or not The market will dictate notification based system I didn’t want to create another storefront to figure... Support this podcast