274. Braddock Farm | Grow Pittsburgh | Nick Lubecki

I know you are a going to love this interview I did with RockStar Millennial Nick Lubecki as much as I did because I listened to it today as I drove to work. So the shownotes are completely raw from the day we actually spoke. I didn’t have time to fix them but they are great! I have 20 episodes in the bank I can’t wait to share. In an ideal world, I would share them all right away! But in reality it’s all I can usually do to produce one a week. I will try though to get them caught up so they are current! In the meantime I hope you enjoy as much as I do. I’ve been having some sound problems too it seems in Andony’s podcast last week I thought I was too loud, this one I feel like I am can’t always hear everything I say? I’m as frustrated as you are that way, as I just copy and save everything, the settings don’t really change? I feel like ever since January 2018 I’ve been struggling with my sound? But I think you will love the content as much as I enjoyed recording it! Happy Spring Everyone!

Tuesday February 5th, 2019

Today we have a rockstar millennial Nick Lubecki from Grow Pittsburgh who is giving a presentation on Learning Circle: Weed Management in Intensive Veggie Production.

Tell us a little about yourself.

Right now I am the Farm Manager

which is a project of Grow Pittsburgh

• urban nonprofit
• help people start community gardens around the county
• we have 2 urban farms

Currently I manage the Braddock farm about an acre or so

borough of Braddock

town just outside Pittsburgh

last remaining steel mill in the next door

It reminds me of the Brooklyn Grange on your website with the urban mill and the farm together.

Yeah! It’s a great photo shot for sure!

Tell me about your first gardening experience?

my first memory visiting grandparents in northern PA

They had a huge garden

• fruit trees
• sunflowers
• all that sort of thing

as a kid I was really excited about that!

at our home, my grandmother helped put together our first big garden, Imust have been 5-6 years old.

Do you have brothers and sisters?

Yeah, we were all involved at first, eventually became me and my brother and we’re still growing together today!

we are about an hour about north of the city! I’ve been gardening for a while!

Tell us about that. How does a millennial come to be growing as an adult.