Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.

This is episode number 399. Wow. We've come a long way over the years. This one also qualifies for a geek alert, and you will learn why in a minute.

But let me just tease you with this to get you thinking. What does Amazon warehouses,

data management, and seed saving have to do with each other? Well, more than you may think,

but we'll get there big time today. And here we are at the beginning of the new year. And I felt

the need to share with you a lot of what I'm doing

right now to get ready for the gardening season. Right now, it's mostly focused on getting

my seeds together, which is really what inspired me to create this episode for you because I have

some specifics that I've changed this year that have really become a game changer for me.

I can already tell that it's going to do big things from my organization, save me a lot of money in the process, and give me a ton of peace of mind going forward.

And this is a system that it was inspired by Amazon and how they track their inventory management within their warehouses.

And I learned about this system through my friend Zen.

Zen is somewhat of a neighbor.

He's a short drive away and he's a great gardener, has an awesome Instagram channel, Encyclopedia.

I'll tell you more about Zen and the Amazon system as it applies to what I'm doing with

my C organization right now.

And I'll save that for the last part of the podcast because I have a lot to cover and I want

to get it all in.

But I want to save that part because it's a little more detailed and I want to make sure I

do it justice.

And I have a bonus bit of content in today's episode.

If you want to geek out on spreadsheets, specifically as Zen did in setting up his for his seat

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