Kyle Gati on food sovereignty and at-home gardening

Beekeeper, bread maker, and gardener Kyle Gati reflects on creating a massive backyard garden to suit his culinary needs, including: sacrificial plants for critters and pests, what he does with surplus, surprising water management methods, and tips + tricks he's learned over the last decade.

Find me @healing_corner on Instagram and healingcorner.net

Follow along with Kyle over at @gati_k on Instagram

Notes

• How and why Kyle got into gardening

• Pots vs. in-ground and keeping pots for certain plants

• Converting an RV pad into a backyard garden

• Benefits of using basalt stone vs. a wooden frame

• How he deals with rabbits

• Surprising weed blocker

• Kyle growing 20 different veggies, including 5 tomato varieties

• Amish paste tomato and Midnight Roma tomato from Row7 seeds

• What to do with surplus

• Vegetable pairing + planting 

• Sacrificial plants

• Nasturtium + marigolds

• Ornamentals for pollinators

• Slugs

• What about bigger vegetables?

• Seeds and space

• Seed starter tips

• Daily maintenance 

• Wine cap mushroom or garden giant mushroom

• Northspore Mushrooms

• Tilth Alliance (Pacific Northwest)

• YouTube for tutorials (search for your region i.e. "Midwest Gardening")

• Instagram accounts + websites

@row7seeds (chef + plant breeder + farmer collaborative) and website
@mycosymbiote (mushroom cultivator) and website
@northsporemushrooms (great mushroom + gardening resource and supplier) and website
@sonomahillsfarm (cannabis farm and culinary garden) and website

#foodsovereignty #growfoodnotlawns #growyourownfood #selfsufficient #selfsufficientliving #selfsufficientgardening #victorygarden #organicgarden #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #foodsecurity #foodsecurityisfreedom #realfood #pnwgardening #northspore #spreadthespore