Our guest this week is Rishi Kumar, who along with his mother Manju, turned a suburban house in Diamond Bar, California into a lush edible landscape and then went on to form a community educational organization and a suburban farm. You can see what they’ve done on their website The Growing Club. During the podcast […]



Our guest this week is Rishi Kumar, who along with his mother Manju, turned a suburban house in Diamond Bar, California into a lush edible landscape and then went on to form a community educational organization and a suburban farm. You can see what they’ve done on their website The Growing Club. During the podcast we mention:

Jamun fruit (Syzygium cumini)
Sheet mulching
Growing fruit trees close togther
Raccoons!
Quail and chickens
Water harvesting vs. rain barrels
How the Growing Home became the Growing Club, Sarvodaya Farms and the Growing Commons.
May 28th greywater workshop.

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