GREEN Organic Garden Podcast24 Juni 2019

272. Start Your Farm for the 21st Century Sustainable Farmer | Plant To Profit | Ellen Polishuk | Washington DC

I am delighted to introduce my amazing guest from Plant to Profit Farm Consulting Ellen Polishuk is here to share her amazing knowledge and story as well as her new book available on amazon or her website!

Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer

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Tell us a little about yourself you were telling me today in Washington DC you had snow today.

Yup! as you said, just the end of January having a little bit of snow

raised in the DC Suburbs

55 been here a long time

whole career has been in agriculture

vegetable gardener

part of a farm called Potomac Vegetable Farms

25 year career there growing and selling organically grown

vegetables
herbs
cut flowers

Tell me about your first gardening experience?

It’s good story everybody has to start somewhere

easiest way to describe it I think I was just born loving plants, they were sort of my sort of pets

as a little child I would collect indoor plants in my room. I got a community garden plot when I was like 8

goes back quite a long time even though I grew up in a cul de sac, the most ideal suburban childhood but somehow

agriculture grabbed me

ended up getting a degree in horticulture in college

not growing up on a a farm.

Do you want to tell listeners what sustainable agriculture maybe means to you did you learn that in horticulture school?

As a young person when I first

15-16-17 years old, luckily I worked on farms, that were quote unquote, “organically”

started getting Organic Gardening magazine like everyone else,

keep up and see what other people were doing

sustainable ag

organic more specific and legally

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