479: Garden When You Don't Have a Clue, Don't Want to Use Pesticides, & Have No Green Thumb with Jill Ragan

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Do you have to be a good planner to start a garden? How can you avoid pests if you don't use pesticides? Are “companion” plants a thing? What plants are best near others?

These are some of the questions addressed by Jill Ragan of Whispering Willow Farm in this week's podcast episode. Jill is the author of “The Tiny but Mighty Farm,” and she has lots of ideas for how to get started gardening. She made plenty of mistakes that she openly shares so that we can learn from her and avoid duplicating the bad stuff. She offers ideas for both the beginner gardener and the one with more experience under their belt.

Since Jill is a “market gardener,” she knows how to scale up and what works for gardeners with a lot of lands and those with very little. She covers the importance of practical space usage, why string trellises work better than plastic cages, and more.

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0:00.0	From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for
0:10.4	Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. We are your source. for And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrada Gore.
0:27.0	Hey, Hilda here.
0:30.0	Are you interested in starting a garden, but not sure where to start?
0:34.0	Do brown thumbs run in the family?
0:36.0	No green thumb, no problem.
0:39.0	This is episode 479, and our guest today is Jill Reagan.
0:43.0	Jill is the author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm
0:46.0	and the owner of Whispering Willow Farm
0:49.0	nestled in Central Arkansas.
0:51.0	Jill is an educator, inspiring and encouraging thousands on her
0:55.4	social media platforms and YouTube. Today Jill gives simple and practical ideas for
1:00.4	where to start. She gives ideas of what to plant and why. She goes over billions. ideas for
1:05.0	the more experienced gardener including how to use a string talus and why it's
1:14.3	superior to cages and other more conventional gardening systems. Jill also goes
1:19.7	over how to manage pests without harsh pesticides, think insect netting and hand picking, and why she is convinced
1:27.4	you can't afford not to garden for your health.
1:30.9	Finally Jill explains how she did everything wrong at first, which is also why
1:35.8	she is committed to educating future gardeners. She made mistakes so that we don't
1:40.9	have to. Before we get into the conversation,
1:43.5	I want to let you know censorship is real.
1:46.1	Let's have a direct line of communication.
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