Episodes

  • Self Sufficient Gardening with Mark Valencia | The Beet

    Self Sufficient Gardening with Mark Valencia | The Beet
    Sep 8 2025
    Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Get 2 extra months free with annual plans for a limited time only: https://storyblocks.com/TheBeet Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques Lyakov sits down with Mark Valencia of Self Sufficient Me to discuss how his backyard garden turned into a global movement. They explore the link between self-sufficiency, mental health, and reconnecting with nature. Mark shares practical tips and big-picture inspiration for anyone looking to grow food and live more intentionally. Connect with Mark Valencia: Mark Valencia started gardening out of necessity – to save money and support his family. But it quickly became much more, enriching his life and boosting his mental health. He launched Self Sufficient Me, now a popular blog and YouTube channel with over 2.3 million followers. Today, Mark inspires people worldwide to get outside, grow their own food, and slow down a little. Find more from Mark on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/selfsufficientme Find more from Mark on his website: https://selfsufficientme.com/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Fruit Trees Made Easy with Susan Poizner | The Beet

    Fruit Trees Made Easy with Susan Poizner | The Beet
    Aug 25 2025
    Episode Description: On this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques digs into all things fruit trees with orchard pro and influencer Susan Poizner. From childhood memories to juicy tips on growing your own, they cover it all. Tune in to learn how to grow fruit trees that actually bear fruit – sweet, delicious, and plentiful! Connect with Susan Poizner: Susan Poizner is a leading voice in fruit tree care, known for her award-winning educational resources. Her journey began in 2009 with the co-founding of Toronto’s Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard. A journalist and BBC-trained media pro, Susan used her skills to dive deep into organic fruit tree care, developing a practical approach she now shares through her website. Find more from Susan Poizner at her website: https://learn.orchardpeople.com/about-susan Find more from Susan Poizner on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orchardpeople/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • The Real Organic Project with Dave Chapman | The Beet

    The Real Organic Project with Dave Chapman | The Beet
    Aug 11 2025
    Launch your business with a free trial of Shopify. Go to https://shopify.com/thebeet to learn more! Episode Description: The standards for organic farming were built with care and good intentions. But when today’s Beet Podcast guest discovered they’d been co-opted, he set out to change that. What started as a farmer organizing turned into a lifelong mission to reclaim the original meaning of “organic” by focusing on the soil. He and Logan dig into organic farming – and the tangled rules around what the word means today. Connect with Dave Chapman: Dave Chapman has been farming for 37 years and now runs Long Wind Farm in Vermont. He’s Co-Director of the Real Organic Project and a founding member of Vermont Organic Farmers. A driving force behind the Keep The Soil In Organic movement, Dave works to reclaim organic standards from the USDA. Through his roles in key associations and task forces, he’s pushing to restore the true meaning of “organic”. Find more from Dave at the Real Organic Project: https://realorganicproject.org/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Regenerate the Earth with Josh Tickell | The Beet

    Regenerate the Earth with Josh Tickell | The Beet
    Aug 4 2025
    Episode Description: Soil is where it all starts – our food, our health, and our planet. In this episode of The Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Kiss the Ground and Common Ground filmmaker Josh Tickell about why healthy soil matters and how home gardeners can dig into regenerative practices right in their own backyards. Get ready for a fun, inspiring look at growing food that gives back to the earth. Connect with Josh Tickell: Josh Tickell is a leading eco-visionary known for crafting powerful, solutions-driven documentaries. He won the Sundance Audience Award for Fuel and gained widespread acclaim for Kiss the Ground, which spotlighted the critical role of soil health in agriculture. His latest film, Common Ground, continues that mission, focusing on regenerative farming as a response to climate change. Find more from Josh at his website: https://www.joshtickell.com/ Find more from Josh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshtickell/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    52 mins
  • Preserve the Seasons with Holly Capelle | The Beet

    Preserve the Seasons with Holly Capelle | The Beet
    Jul 28 2025
    Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Holly Capelle – founder of @BigFamilyLiving and food preservation pro – about all the clever ways to make your harvests last. From big batches to small handfuls, Holly shares smart tips, tricks, and old-school techniques with a modern twist to help you stretch your garden goodies all year long. Connect with Holly Capelle: Holly Capelle is a passionate home cook, food preservationist, and sustainable living advocate. She’s the founder of @BigFamilyLiving, an online community for those who love to preserve, cook, create, and garden. With over 30 years of culinary experience, Holly blends traditional preservation methods with modern practicality. She lives just outside Portland, Oregon with her husband Kevin and their six kids on a suburban mini-homestead, where they grow, harvest, and preserve their own food. Find more from Holly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigfamilyliving/ Find more from Holly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dTzuDB8tC_jtNUU0BUWhw Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • Garden Where You Are with Scott Wilson | The Beet

    Garden Where You Are with Scott Wilson | The Beet
    Jul 22 2025
    This episode has been brought to you by Fox Farm, crafting soil and fertilizers since 1984. Supercharge your plants by locating a Fox Farm retailer near you: https://foxfarm.com/find-a-dealer/ Episode Description: Knowing your hardiness zone and season length is a great start, but adapting to your local conditions is key to growing great fruits and veggies. As a zone 5 gardener at 7,000 feet, Scott Wilson knows how to tailor a garden to the climate. In this episode of the Beet Podcast, he and Jacques dive into growing based on place, not just advice from other gardeners. Connect with Scott Wilson: “Gardener Scott” Wilson is a Colorado-based Master Gardener and YouTube creator with over 400,000 subscribers and millions of views. A retired U.S. Air Force Command Pilot, he now educates gardeners through his Master Gardener Chapter, the Galileo Garden Project, and his book Gardener Scott’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening. Find more from Scott Wilson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gardenerscott/?hl=en Find more from Scott Wilson on YouTube: youtube.com/@gardenerscott Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Artisan Herbalism with Bevin Cohen | The Beet

    Artisan Herbalism with Bevin Cohen | The Beet
    Jul 14 2025
    Get your business started with a free trial of Shopify. Go to https://shopify.com/epicgardening to learn more! This week on The Beet Podcast, we're delving into the wonderful world of herbs! Logan chats with Bevin Cohen of Small House Farm about his favorite herbs and his journey into herbal medicine. For Bevin, herbs aren’t just plants – they’re a way of life, showing up everywhere from the kitchen to the forest, and even the medicine cabinet. Tune in for a fresh, earthy convo that’s as inspiring as it is rooted in nature. Connect with Bevin Cohen: Bevin Cohen is an award-winning author, herbalist, and podcaster dedicated to living close to the land. From his family homestead at Small House Farm in Sanford, Michigan, he shares his passion for seeds, herbs, and local food. Bevin travels the country leading workshops and lectures, and his work has been featured in numerous publications. He’s the author or editor of over ten books, including Saving Our Seeds and The Artisan Herbalist. Find more from Bevin at Small House Farm: https://www.smallhousefarm.com/ Find more from Bevin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/small_house_farm/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Waterwise Gardening with Richard Restuccia | The Beet

    Waterwise Gardening with Richard Restuccia | The Beet
    Jun 30 2025
    Water-saving expert Richard Restuccia has one golden rule: Every time you water, you should be watering the same amount. The only thing that changes is the frequency. In this episode of the Beet Podcast, he joins Jacques to dive into smart, simple ways to conserve water in the garden and chats about his latest book, Waterwise Gardening. Tune in! This one's packed with practical tips and fresh inspiration. Connect with Richard Restuccia: Richard Restuccia is a green industry veteran with over 25 years of digging into smarter landscapes. Now Senior VP at Husqvarna, he’s passionate about helping people save water—he’s trained over 200,000 folks on how to do just that. A past winner of the Leadership in Landscape award, Richard also served on major Irrigation Association committees, bringing both expertise and energy to everything from policy to practical tips. Find more from Richard Restuccia on H2O Trends: https://h2otrends.com/about/ Learn more about water conservation from Richard’s new book: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847846894/ Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    52 mins