The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel

Bailey Van Tassel shares behind the scenes on how she got her book, Kitchen Garden Living, published. She shares tips for networking, pitching, and putting a concept together. Bailey also talks about the contents of the book and how it's more than just a "how to garden" book, brimming over into lifestyle and home.

To pre-order her book, Kitchen Garden Living, go here.

There is a fun pre-order bonus for you!

For more info on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com or find her on Instagram HERE.

Mentioned in this episode:

Field Guide to Outside Style by Ryan McEnany

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After an onslaught of love, support, and questions, Bailey shares her decision to move her family of five from Southern California to Middle Tennessee. She shares the ins and outs of how and why they made the decision, as well as her story of an impossible and long-forgotten prayer being answered.

For more info on Bailey Van Tassel go to www.baileyvantassel.com

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Emma and Mary Kingsley are the mother-daughter duo behind Lady Farmer, a brand that began with a sustainable clothing line and now is a successful podcast (The Good Dirt) around slow and conscious living. Emma and Mary talk about each of their childhoods and how it informed their current path together. They chat about what moved them to do a Kickstarter campaign which led to where they are now, on a sustainable path and how they live within that ethos. This chat is a great peek into how it takes nothing other than a passion and interest to move into a life that you're inspired by and proud of. They share about plastic in our clothing, where they shop, and what we all can think about to start getting more intentional.

Emma and Mary's Fave Books:

Growing Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

We are the Arc by Mary Reynolds

Love, Nature Magic by

For more info about Lady Farmer go to www.ladyfarmer.com, visit their podcast The Good Dirt HERE, or join their Substack HERE.

BIG thanks to our amazing sponsor Neptune's Harvest. For info go to neptunesharvest.com and use code GCULTURE for 5% off.

For more info on Bailey Van Tassel go to www.baileyvantassel.com and join her monthly gardening membership here: www.thekitchengardensociety.com

Spoiler alert: at the end of this episode are the secrets you've been waiting to hear for how to have the most envious vegetable garden. Bailey Van Tassel interviews Ann Malloy, one of the owners of Neptune's Harvest, an organic fertilizer company. It was founded by Ann's grandfather, who left school at 14 to help provide for his family. Their story is incredible and along the way we learn about how beautifully they've built a truly organic fertilizer company from fish by-products that fuel the most productive gardens through nutrient-building.

Ann invites us into her world by explaining how the fish fertilizer is made, how they run the business now, and how they've developed the products that work so magically, without compromising their organic and pure promise. Ann shares about giant pumpkins, combatting powdery mildew, roses, products that organically kill grubs and so much more.

Ann's favorite books: Illusions by Richard Bach and The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson

For more information on Neptune's Harvest, go to www.neptunesharvest.com or ask your local nursery.

For more information on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com

Huge thank you to our amazing sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. For info on Pinetree Garden Seeds go to superseeds.com and use code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off.

In this mini episode, Bailey Van Tassel shares her tips for growing organic tomatoes. She covers the basics of cultivating them, as well as personal advice, common pitfalls, and favorite tomato varieties.

Favorite tomatoes:

Rapunzel, Snow White, Sungold, and Rosso Sicilian

For more information on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com

Join The Kitchen Garden Society at www.thekitchengardensociety.com

This week we unpack the secret behind my favorite garden amendment as of late - wool pellets. They are SUCH a triple threat - holding moisture, repelling slugs, and slow-releasing nitrogen. We talk to Megan, the founder of Kestrel Ridge Pellet Co., who started her business as a way to make use of the incredibly wasteful wool industry. The wool by-products that come from either unsellable or undesirable wool make for fantastic fertilizer. When pelleted, it's easy for the home gardener to use. Megan walks us through how she got started in this business, and why wool does in fact make such a great amendment.

To get more info on Kestrel Ridge Pellet Co. and to order wool pellets, go HERE.

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For more info on Bailey Van Tassel, go to www.baileyvantassel.com or follow along on instagram HERE.

Huge thank you to our amazing sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. For info on Pinetree Garden Seeds go to superseeds.com and use code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off.

Mapping out where all of your vegetables go in the kitchen garden can be overwhelming. Have no fear - I have a system for you! It's my own Poker Planting method that helps you prioritize and plan based on what you want to grow the most, and then fit things in from there. I do follow some companion planting basics, which I talk about. But mostly we debunk how important companion planting is and instead talk about biodiversity.

We did a live recording of using the poker planting method and it's available for anyone inside The Kitchen Garden Society. Membership is re-opened! For a limited time. Go to www.thekitchengardensociety.com

For the book, Carrots Love Tomatoes, go HERE.

For more info on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel

Thank you so much to our sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. Visit superseeds.com for more information and use the code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off.

Kylie Gray Ailers joins us today and goes deep into her journey of starting a flower farm. Kylie owns and operates Gray Girl Farms which sells Dahlia flowers and tubers, as well as peonies now. Kylie walks us through the surprising agronomy side of growing tubers (it's like growing potatoes!), as well as the details on getting started with purchasing wholesale tubers, operating costs, getting soil samples, the works. Kylie shares about her "do less and get good" philosophy as well as how she avoids staking her dahlias, against the internet's recommendation. Kylie is motivated by teaching her children to have a strong work ethic as well as leaving them a flower legacy and her story is proof of that, as well as encouraging for anyone looking to jump into flower farming.

For more info on Kylie, www.graygirlfarms.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/graygirlfarms

Kylie's Book Recommendations:

Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden

For more info on Bailey www.baileyvantassel.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel

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Ginny Yurich is the Founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, a bestselling author, a mother of five, and an advocate for reclaiming childhood and reconnecting families. Today she educates us on why she started the 1,000 Hours Outside movement and what it's done for her and her kids. She is also hilarious and this episode is full of laughs and wisdom. Ginny walks us through how she overcame the dislike of motherhood and caught her breath, the physiology of nature, and how to build a foundation of adventure plus so much more on why she chose this path that she did and how you can too, no matter where you live.

Ginny's Favorite Books:

Homestead Tsunami and The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs by Joel Salatin

Balanced and Barefoot by Angela Hanscom

Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots by Sharon Lovejoy

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

For more info: www.1000hoursoutside.com

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www.instagram.com/1000hoursoutside

For more info on Bailey Van Tassel go HERE.

Bailey on Instagram: www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel

This week we're featuring an interview that Bailey Van Tassel had on The Good Dirt Podcast. Enjoy listening from a new perspective as we dive into Bailey's foray into gardening.

Bailey is an entrepreneur and mother of three, who created both the Kitchen Garden Society and the Garden Culture Podcast. She grew up on a hobby farm in Sebastopol, California, but didn't fully appreciate her cowboy parents until she moved away and missed the huge garden, chickens, and pigs that she grew up around. Settling into the suburbs of Southern California meant she couldn't have the same amount of space, but after a challenge from her husband Joe, Bailey went to Home Depot, bought some plants, got her HOA's permission after vowing to share her vegetables, and the rest was history. Bailey's life changed even more once she started to share her journey online, where her passion shifted from hobby to profession. In this episode, Emma and Mary sit down with Bailey to discuss her journey, the evolution of her gardening practices, and techniques such as planting by the moon and vermicomposting. After years of searching for the perfect land to have her farm and garden, Bailey realized that right where she was, was good enough. She wants you to know that you can grow the garden of your dreams in any amount of space – you just need the right info. And that's what she's here to teach you!

Topics Discussed

• The Summer Solstice

• Social Media & Running an Online Business

• Deciding How to Raise Kids

• Lessons Learned from Moving from a Small City to a Big City

• Creating a Connection to Nature for the Next Generation

• Sharing the Journey to Gardening Online

• The Feeling of Yearning

• Our Innate Connectedness to Nature

• Living a Garden Inspired Life

• How to Garden in a Small Space

• High Density Planting

• Kids & Vegetables

• The Deal with Snap Peas

• Regenerative Gardening Practices

• Planting by the Moon

• What Is Vermicomposting

Connect with Bailey Van Tassel:

• Website: https://baileyvantassel.com/

• Instagram: @baileyvantassel

• The Kitchen Garden Society: www.thekitchengardensociety.com

• The Garden Culture Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-intro-to-the-garden-culture-podcast-and-bailey-van-tassel/id1643017748?i=1000578082770

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