282. Permaculture Practices | Modern Homesteading Podcast Host Harold Thornbro |That Green Freak in School | Small Town Homestead | Indiana

Modern Homesteading Podcast

Tell us a little about yourself.

East Central Indiana

nice and cold here

• married to my wife Mary for a little over 26 years
• 3 daughters
• couple of grandkids running around
• Most of my life I was a truck driver

Had my own trucking company

• led to me being gone a lot
• led to some bad eating habits

Sure! It’s tough when you’re on the road. It lets you listen to a lot of podcasts but it definitely makes being healthy a challenge.

Tell me about your first gardening experience? Kind of I grew up on a homestead really, we didn’t call it that but we had

• animals
• large garden
• more property

did all those things

always grew up working in the garden

in garden

never thought about it being my garden

first time it was about 3rd or 4th grade

Really got the bug for growing something on your own!

in school believe it or not

• bean plants
• styrofoam cup
• gardens at home

I remember that vividly, growing that bean cup grow and replanted it in the yard!

gave me a bug

Like I said, we worked in the garden all the time

always loved

That Green Freak in school!

loved growing stuff

gardening

animals

teenage years

got more into cars and girls

stayed away from it

in my mind

always assume I’d be living that lifestyle

I always wanted to be Caroline Ingalls in the mountains, I knew the minute I walked into Mike’s house this is what I have been dreaming about all my life, it’s a little bit bigger.

How did you learn how to garden organically?

it never seemed important to me then

in my ind I thought

I guess I thought about sustainable practices

But my dad

he would dump any chemical fertilizers

on the lawns

dealing with the animals we would pump em full of antibiotics whatever would...