316. AWESOME NEIGHBOR! Local Superhero and Edible Weed Expert Matthew Zoeller Returns | TOTALLY RAW ~ C.O.V.I.D+19 Gardening Acronym

Won't You Be My Neighbor?I’m gonna just gonna hit record okOK ~ I’ll deliver!Here’s a listener and awesome teacher! Matt Zoeller to share his garden journey and talking about edible weeds who was on my show back in February 2018 in episode 250.Listen here to my interview with Matt about Edible WeedsIt’s a privilege to be back here, it’s now the second time I have done a podcast like this the first one was with you jackie like 2 years ago.so many people have listened to your episode before, I think you are even in my organic oasis guidebook where It all about growing chickens in the suburbs, I spent so much time reading it last year and then I haven’t seen it for a year and then I was on someones podcast the other dayhow nutritious they are usually people switch off the station not download it so, this is a cool place to be on the fringe organic gardener podcast which you’ve had some pretty bad-a**ed published guests lately.I think you are just being humble. I know you dropped lots of great golden seeds. But since I did have Melissa Norris and Jeff Ditchfield my numbers have practically double and so there are a lot of new listeners who haven’t heardI came up with an acronym…. My name is Matt Zoeller, I teach high school, I have a masters in education but all things health and plants, maybe wearing the color green I do wear a lot of green is something I love but it is not academic, I just have an organic interested, I am always reading and listening!I live right in Denver, in a suburb, in a neighborhood, IDK how big my house is but it’s not big eitherwe have a good solid amount of garden spacechickenssalvaging woodraccoon issuewe got 3 more hensactually 7 chicksthat are 4 weeks old that’s really excitingthe thing I am kind of becoming famous forlove of eating weedsmy analogyif you were to move into a housespring rolls around and suddenlythere’s kale everywhere would you walk out and say we didn’t plant this kale we have to dig them all uhire some ruminantyou would probably eat it because its kale an its healthmost of the main ones we hate the most and probably Canadiansa lot are edible and nutritionwe went therenutrients panickingwhat advice would I have for people if the supply runs outcan’t count on my neighboryou’re like the perfect guy for thisI came up with an acronymtake it or leave itCompostOeuf (french for egg a plug for chickens)VegetableImmune SystemDehydrateIn the spirit of survivalif I had a blog or we making a booksqueezed it into COVIDChickens or compost -I think that is annoyingmake a big piletalking kitchen stuffdo something with ithere’s some ideasburry itdig a trench slowlyso practicalyour mom does itwhenever this comes upoh my grandma used to do thatIDK what happened to make altho stopreally good for the soilI have alwaysmost people have a wrong sense ofdon’t throw away biodegradablethe way we compost herewith our food scraps is feed to the chickensI’l saythat’s it letterlet’s move onto theOeufso a littleyou're listenersno curses here (12:18make a little plug for chickensthey’re so low maintenancegot chickens for 2 yearmore stuffmore...