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Speaker 1: Welcome. This is it could happen here daily. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: week we are focusing on different ways to actually start

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Speaker 1: ways to do that is by just literally growing your

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Speaker 1: I have invited a guest on from another kind of

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Speaker 1: I would say, probably how to how to kind of

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Speaker 1: Won't explain who you are and what's your what's your

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Speaker 1: whats your project is? Sure? So my name is Andy.

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Speaker 1: I'm the post of the Poor Roles Almanac. We're a

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Speaker 1: pod cast that's focused on thinking about after collaps how

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Speaker 1: do we things like climate change and collaps impact things

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Speaker 1: So a great resources Johnny's Seed. They do a lot

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Speaker 1: of really good work and there they have good quality stuff.

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Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of seed companies out there that

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Speaker 1: recommend them. Awesome. Yeah, their website is just Johnny Seeds

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