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I thought I would replay this episode for Memorial Day! http://growingwarrior.wpengine.com/ () http://growingwarrior.wpengine.com/ (The Growing Warriors Project) http://growingwarrior.wpengine.com/ (The Growing Warriors Project) is a program to train, assist, and equip veteran families with the skills, tools, and supplies needed to grow high quality naturally grown produce for their families, their communities, and their country. Tell us a little about yourself. Grew up in Maine, Avon Valley on a sustenance farm with grandfather with Uncles and family. Back in School at http://www.sccky.edu/academics/arts-sciences/earth-studies/sustainablefarming_ba.php (St. Catherine’s College at the Berry Farming and Ecological Agrarianism Program) Wendell Berry was the forefather of 1975 and wrote the http://smile.amazon.com/Unsettling-America-Culture-Agriculture/dp/0871568772/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429135084&sr=8-1&keywords=unsettling+of+america (Unsettling of America) Earning a Community leadership and Agrarian Farming degree from the Department of Earth Studies at  St. Catherine’s College in St. Catherine, KY. Tell me about your first gardening experience? Lived on a small farm with family til he was 9 and then moved to the city. ABout 10 years ago started farming, working with lots of veterans who have very cool stories about why Looked at little organic farm wanted to impress the woman who would soon become his wife and said what do you think of this summer internship and she said “I think it’s sexy,” and so he signed right up. What does organic gardening/earth friendly mean to you? We have this system that doesn’t even classify the damages of this system we have now on the earth. Have to as a species need to understand the confines of the system. We live in a world where everything is connected, and we have to where the consequences of our choices, we have very special gifts we have been given.  It’s having respect for everything and its value … by not doing it we are giving a discredit to future generations. Not put here to leave this place worse off then we got here. “So for me organic gardening or earth friendly gardening means me doing my best to leave this place better then when I got here, I guess I’m paying rent …  stewardship.” Who or what inspired you to start using organic techniques? Had always before we had children or I met my wife, had always purchased organic foods. Grew up on land. And that first internship was on an organic farm. How did you learn how to garden organically? When you think about what a pesticide is, it’s designed to kill. Doesn’t make sense to do it any other way. There’s a new potato bug killer that you put on the roots, that you’re gonna eat? It’s just the right thing to do. We have decimated our soil over again, and again. Tell us about something that grew well this year. Hemp! We’re in the best climate for it, Kentucky has historically produced about 90% of the hemp this country has ever used.  Climate and soil is situated to it. For example you get a seed pack, and it says tomatoes will take 65 days for this variety to harvest. For all intensive purposes the seed pack for hemp said 110 days. But ended up harvesting 6-8’ plants at 52 days. Blessed with one of the best hemp crops in the country last year. Homecoming!! So what is hemp? Hemp is a member of the cannabis sativa family, is related to marijuana, but definitely different. Grown for it’s fiber. The federal limit for THC is .3 of a percent of the THC can be in a hemp plant for it not to be classified as marijuana. Yes, that’s .3% THC. (Jackie interrupts here with a point about a recent interview with President Obama on the show Vice where he talks to millennials about why they should be more concerned with climate change and the economy among other important issues then marijuana decriminalization. Here is the link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a01Rg2g2Z8... Support this podcast