The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

After experiencing a traumatic accident resulting in serious injury while on vacation, Michael MacDonald turned to seed starting in his hospital room to help boost his mental health. Connect With Michael MacDonald: Michael MacDonald, one of the co-founders of MacDonald Farm, suffered a spinal cord injury while on vacation. In his journey to recovery, gardening became a way to heal. His partner, Chef Daniel creates private dinners with everything he grows. Instagram Michael’s Instagram Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What’s in and what's out: Gardening edition. Chia-Ming and I get into what tools and crops we are loving, which ones we can live without. I would love to hear from you about your gardening “Hot or Not’s”! DM us what you think.  Connect With Chia-Ming Ro: Chia-Ming Ro is a former finance exec turned food & cut flower garden designer, who is transforming Los Angeles and Orange County one home at a time with her foodscaping business Coastal Homestead. YouTube Instagram TikTok Chia-Ming’s Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let’s get weird! Chia-Ming and I talk about the exotic plants we are growing, have grown, have failed to grow and are dreaming about growing in the future.  Connect With Chia-Ming Ro: Chia-Ming Ro is a former finance exec turned food & cut flower garden designer, who is transforming Los Angeles and Orange County one home at a time with her foodscaping business Coastal Homestead. YouTube Instagram TikTok Chia-Ming’s Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Guess what? You actually aren’t born with a green thumb, or a black thumb. Once you begin to relate to your plants and understand what they need you will find it easier to be successful in the garden. Connect With Chia-Ming Ro: Chia-Ming Ro is a former finance exec turned food & cut flower garden designer, who is transforming Los Angeles and Orange County one home at a time with her foodscaping business Coastal Homestead. YouTube Instagram TikTok Chia-Ming’s Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arguably, the hardest part of gardening is getting started and designing a garden that suits your needs. You may want to go all in right away, but Chia-Ming suggests you take a step back and think about what plants and what design is going to be best for your home and goals. Connect With Chia-Ming Ro: Chia-Ming Ro is a former finance exec turned food & cut flower garden designer, who is transforming Los Angeles and Orange County one home at a time with her foodscaping business Coastal Homestead. YouTube Instagram TikTok Chia-Ming’s Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chia-Ming leaves behind her excel spreadsheets to pursue her gardening passions full-time. In this episode, we talk all about how she made this decision and what the path was like to building her business. Connect With Chia-Ming Ro: Chia-Ming Ro is a former finance exec turned food & cut flower garden designer, who is transforming Los Angeles and Orange County one home at a time with her foodscaping business Coastal Homestead. YouTube Instagram TikTok Chia-Ming’s Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pimp my Greenhouse! Today, Kyle and I talk about what you need and don’t need in your greenhouse to be successful. Connect With Kyle Exner: Kyle Exner, a professional with over 25 years at BC Greenhouse Builders, is renowned for his industry knowledge and ability to help all gardeners find the greenhouse that best suits their climate and environment.In the early days, Kyle's focus was office management and learning the ropes from company founder, Henry Heinen. As General Manager, Kyle has a hand in helping every department at BC Greenhouse Builders and guides the company through the rapid growth seen over the last several years. Kyle enjoys the diverse team and the culture at BC Greenhouse Builders and loves working with all the customers and the loyal vendors we have connected with over our 70-year history. Website BC Greenhouses Instagram BC Greenhouses YouTube BC Greenhouses Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If there’s one thing we are learning this week with Kyle, it’s that there are TONS of ways to customize your greenhouse to make it work for your garden goals in your zone. Today, we learn what to do and what not to do when heating and cooling your Greenhouse.  Connect With Kyle Exner: Kyle Exner, a professional with over 25 years at BC Greenhouse Builders, is renowned for his industry knowledge and ability to help all gardeners find the greenhouse that best suits their climate and environment.In the early days, Kyle's focus was office management and learning the ropes from company founder, Henry Heinen. As General Manager, Kyle has a hand in helping every department at BC Greenhouse Builders and guides the company through the rapid growth seen over the last several years. Kyle enjoys the diverse team and the culture at BC Greenhouse Builders and loves working with all the customers and the loyal vendors we have connected with over our 70-year history. Website BC Greenhouses Instagram BC Greenhouses YouTube BC Greenhouses Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tackling the task of choosing the foundation we wanted to go with at the Epic Homestead was the most daunting part of this process. With so many material options and little room for error, this is an important piece to understand. Kyle gives me some feedback about the foundation I choose for my greenhouse 👀  Connect With Kyle Exner: Kyle Exner, a professional with over 25 years at BC Greenhouse Builders, is renowned for his industry knowledge and ability to help all gardeners find the greenhouse that best suits their climate and environment.In the early days, Kyle's focus was office management and learning the ropes from company founder, Henry Heinen. As General Manager, Kyle has a hand in helping every department at BC Greenhouse Builders and guides the company through the rapid growth seen over the last several years. Kyle enjoys the diverse team and the culture at BC Greenhouse Builders and loves working with all the customers and the loyal vendors we have connected with over our 70-year history. Website BC Greenhouses Instagram BC Greenhouses YouTube BC Greenhouses Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kyle Exner talked us through where to put the Greenhouse in our garden. But now the question is, what type of greenhouse is best? Connect With Kyle Exner: Kyle Exner, a professional with over 25 years at BC Greenhouse Builders, is renowned for his industry knowledge and ability to help all gardeners find the greenhouse that best suits their climate and environment.In the early days, Kyle's focus was office management and learning the ropes from company founder, Henry Heinen. As General Manager, Kyle has a hand in helping every department at BC Greenhouse Builders and guides the company through the rapid growth seen over the last several years. Kyle enjoys the diverse team and the culture at BC Greenhouse Builders and loves working with all the customers and the loyal vendors we have connected with over our 70-year history. Website BC Greenhouses Instagram BC Greenhouses YouTube BC Greenhouses Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices