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...