Q day everyone. Q day. Q day. Hello. Happy Q day, everybody.

Welcome to the connect with Kelly. Oh, hi, guys. I'm gonna introduce you in just two two brief moments. Welcome to to the connect with Kelly show where we connect, collaborate, and create together. If it's change we seek, y'all let's be the change.

I'm Kelly, your host. Thank you for joining me. I wanna start with because, music has been such an integral part of my awakening process, my, self discovery journey, moving forward with the show, I'll be starting each show by highlighting lyrics from what I'm calling breadcrumb bands. Say that three times fast. Breadcrumb bands.

I wanna I wanna bring attention to the bands or or solo artists that I feel are conscious beings who who leave clues for us in their songwriting. It's it's been so helpful for me. So some of some have been dropping, you know, hints for decades, and I encourage you to tune in and listen to their music and their harmonics. So here's the first one. Here's the first breadcrumb band.

It's from a band called Collective Soul, and the the clue might be in the name there. The the song is called Simple, and the lyrics go like this. Ease your troubled mind. Let love seek. Let love find.

It's simple. Ease your weary soul. Let love lead. Let love flow. It's simple.

Love is all that we should show. So that is the first bread crumb brand. Thank you, collective soul. You've been integral in my awakening process. I wanna give a big thank you to BBS Radio, Don, Doug, mister t, the whole BBS team for making the radio magic happen.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all my subscribers. Please consider subscribing. Really, it's how we keep this creation train rolling and how I we'll we us will keep track of and connect with each other as we move forward.

And for for all the love donations I've received, this show is a labor of love, and your support helps me keep on trucking. All of you listening now or in the future, I just wanna point out that you can find all my shows archived at the bottom of my BBS program page. So thank you everyone for joining me. I have two very special guests today, Idaho Bo and Vivacious Vic. They have their own BBS radio show called Down and Dirty.

Their their show is every other Sunday at 4PM central. You can find them on bbsradio.com forward /downanddirty, where they do a deep dive into the art of organic gardening, sustainable living, the magic of herbs and spices. I could go on and on, but I'm gonna let them speak much, much more, let's just say. I love their project. I I'm gonna call it a project because that's kinda how I see it, their show.

Because if we wanna live long and free and sustainably on our land, this is what we've been talking about. Right? Having an energetic connection with it and the plants we grow is essential. That's what we're gonna be eating. So that makes sense.

Are you ladies with me? We are here. Hey, Vic. Yes. I'm here.

Hi. So they're gonna be with me for the entire hour. So I encourage you to call in with questions for Bo and Vicky as you're inspired. And the, the toll free number is (888) 627-6008. (888) 627-6008.

And before we get started ladies, I want everyone to know that I'm gonna be posting Bo and Vicki's show and contact info on my program page at b b s radio dot com forward slash connect with Kelly. And just just FYI, that's what I'll do for all my guests who have a pro who have project summaries, handouts, just things to share. I'm gonna post them on my my page. And the reason Bo and Vicky are my guests today is because they asked. So if you or someone you know would like to be a guest on the show, please reach out to me via my BBS program page.

That's kind of the the portal, bbsradio.com forward slash connect with Kelly. And here's a suggestion. Make your make your request personal, heart centered, not not canned. If you send me an in person boy, I've got tongue tied today. If you send me an in person request that's clearly being sent far and wide to as many show hosts as possible, I'm gonna ignore it.

So I want I wanna feel you. I wanna feel your passion. As if you actually wanna connect with me and my listeners, and I'm not trying to be cold or callous, but this show is about making personal connection, not not getting, you know, free airtime. So I hope that makes sense. I do wanna, note that up in two weeks, Saturday, May 10 at 10AM central time, I'm gonna have Q as my guest for that hour, and time permitting, we may take phone calls.

My only request on that show is any caller questions be be project related or, about the creation process. So that's gonna be fun in a couple weeks. But right now, oh, and Vicky are with me, and, I'm so excited. I've been excited for ever since I've known you guys are gonna be on because I feel like you're I'm I'm gonna call it your project because I can't think of anything else to say. I feel your project is kinda multifaceted.

You you have a show down and dirty with Beau and Vicky, and that that gives you the opportunity to share your your lifelong passion for sharing your knowledge and your experience about the benefits of, you know, like, just regenerative gardening and sustainable living living. And I was trying to figure out how to kind of get this show started. And so I thought maybe you would like to start by sharing a quick show summary or you could start by sharing a little bit about your backgrounds first. I feel they go hand in hand, so I'll let you decide how you'd like to start and who wants to take the ball. Go for it, Vicky.

Lifelong passion that you just mentioned, as definitely a root for this show that Beau invited me to to be part of, which I am very grateful. My lifelong passion has been digging in the dirt, gardening, growing plants, learning the cycles of life through the plants on this on this earth and especially in the region that I've been born and raised in. It's such an an amazing connection that I think every soul on earth will benefit from if they just give themselves a little bit of time to be silent and walk walk in the earth, with no distractions and just pay attention to what is being shown freely and so generously from the plant life on this planet. And I was born in the city of trees, Boise, Idaho, and trees are definitely my plant totem. I know Beau always calls herself a tree hugger.

I guess I kinda am too, but I don't necessarily hug them. But I do talk with them and listen to them. So I I just it's kind of interesting to start from a beginner's mind of gardening because it's so integral to my being that I've really pondered the beginner's mind of gardening, and that is really fun to think that we may be, no pun intended, planting seeds and other people's consciousness to really to really just give yourself a little bit of time. It doesn't take long to really get in sync and in tune with what's going on in your backyard, in a park, by the river, in the mountains, on a hike, you name it. It's really, really important.

And nowadays, with all of the tech that we're wired into, it's even more important now. I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you, Vicky. That was beautiful. I love the imagery of the seed planting because that that is so, that goes for so many things.

But in particular Yes. The beginning gardener. That's beautiful. And I do wanna chat about that a little bit down the road here, but I'll let go. Hey.

That rhymes. First of all, Kelly, I have to say that Collective Soul is one of my all time favorite bands, and I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of seeing them in person. My goodness. It is literally a spiritual experience. Yeah.

Anyway, that aside They really are. Yeah. They're they're yeah. I encourage everybody to, like you said, seek out their music. It it's amazing.

For me, I grew up in Southern California, and at it was quite a while ago. So at that time, there were still some open spaces in California, and we used to take our Doberman to a field that was down the street and around the corner from us. It was huge. It was like a meadow and just let her run. And my brother and sister and I would collect wildflowers, and my mother taught us the names of them.

And, my mother was also she was born and raised in Germany. And she grew up during World War two where they, you know, they didn't have a lot. They couldn't go down to the store and buy stuff, so they made their own medicines and they grew their own food. So that's the background I grew up with. Plus my father, he grew up in Missouri and then in Illinois.

And my grandparents, his parents always had a beautiful garden. So I grew up with that as well. Then I'll refer back to my childhood in Southern California. We were always either at the beach, in the mountains, out in the desert. We were always taking drives and going camping.

Every month we would camp even in the winter because you can there. So that's that instilled within me the love for nature that has never left me no matter where I've lived, no matter what I've done. I've always been able to seek out, like Vicky said, even a park, a city park, even your backyard. I don't I don't have a luxury right now of having a backyard. So I have a little patio space, and I bring all the plants I can in.

I feed the birds. I feed the feral cats. Yeah. Just having that connection with nature is into integral into assisting me and being in my heart space. And, you know, I know Kew has talked about that for a really long time about just going out and being in nature.

And as Vic said, leave the tech behind. If you wanna take pictures, get a camera. Don't take your phone. Just leave it all behind. And then as far as how this project, as you're calling it, I I never considered it that until you, you know, you mentioned that to me that this is a project a little over a month ago now, I believe.

He was talking to somebody who called in, and she was talking about the copious amounts of tomatoes that she harvest when once she grew a garden and how an old timer taught her how to can. And q Q piped in and said, you know, I've been thinking about starting a radio show on canning and herbs, etcetera, etcetera. And he said, I'm kinda looking for somebody that's really inspired to do that. So I was I was writing up an email before the show was over. I believe it was PRQ that day.

And saying, q, pick me. Pick me. That was on the Saturday. I sat with it all day on Sunday. And Monday or Tuesday, I was on the phone calling Don and Doug and getting all the information on how to start a show.

I just felt that inspired. However, I did not wanna do it alone. And I I was trying to think of who could I ask to be a cohost. And Vic and I have known each other, I don't know, Vic, fifteen years or so now. And we've had tons of adventures as we've spoken of on our first couple of shows together.

We've gardened together. We've hiked together. We've done all kinds of fun and crazy things together, panned together. And I thought, what what better person, one of the best friends I've ever had in my life, so dear and dear to my heart. So I called her up, and here's the crazy thing too.

We had been talking for the past few months on how we would like to be able to help more people and reach out to a bigger audience than having somebody come to your house and teach them how to make botanical lotions or teach them how to can or make sourdough bread one on one or even a couple people. And lo and behold, BBS supplied that for us. So it it it's been we've only had a couple shows, but it's been a blast. And I encourage anybody that has a skill that they wanna share with the world, contact Don and Doug and ask them how to get something started. I'll leave it at that.

That's fantastic. I can, I second that emotion about, just that that kind of what? I'm inspired to do what, regarding the show. But, you know, I kinda really wanna just open that up just a smidge more about inspiration, what it feels like. I shared that on my show, I think the first show, maybe the second.

I can't remember now. But it was just this knowing it was there was no doubt, no deliberation. It was just a knowing that I have to I'm gonna do something. It's gonna be on the radio. I I for a brief second, I was like, but it was just, like, nanoseconds.

It didn't last long because I just knew. I just knew. So is that how it was for you, Beau? Does that does that ring a bell for you? Let's put it this way.

When Q said I'm looking for somebody that's inspired, it was like the fourth of July was going off in my heart. How's that? That's so good. And then and then once you are inspired, I only speak for myself and let allow you to do that too. It's like you just start your your feet start hitting the floor and you start running and you can't it it you just can't stop yourself.

Is that how it was for you? Yes. And also when you're inspired and in that heart space, it's like the synchronicities all boom, boom, boom. They just keep lining up. I called Vicky and I asked her, and she said, yeah.

There was not even a hesitation. Right, Vic? Right, Vic? Vicky? Me?

Vicky? Yeah. You. I just She clearly wants to be, she wants to be a star radio star. That's what it was.

Oh, there well, I just said yes because of who was asking me mainly. I had no idea about kind of what was involved, but I knew that working with Beau because we had a gurus of gardening class here several years ago, and we just had a blast with that. We had people come over to to my yard, and we so it was a it was an automatic yes. And then I wrote out this whole thing this morning of how I make a decision to get involved in Oh, good one. Yeah.

Things. So I'm pretty impulsive a lot of the time, but I also know Beau really well. And so that was a no brainer. Yes. Let's let's see what we can create.

Let's see where it takes us. So, yeah, that was easy. That was an easy yes. Thanks, Beau. So it's it sounds like Vicky, it sounds like your heart center kinda overrode the impulsivity.

Is that what that was? It was like you're just gonna listen to your heart. Your heart was leading you? Absolutely. And many times in my experience, when the heart does lead, it's a it's a it's a quick flash and not super loud.

And then our mind and our ego and everything, oh, but what? And the worry and doubt and that, oh my god. I don't know anything about this or, oh, what's it gonna cost me? Or, you know, all these different things will come in to override that first initial impulse of the heart. That I think is really important for us all to pay attention to and learn from because the heart never really steers us wrong.

But we make stories around why why that impulse can't be trusted and all you know, the whole dialogue that goes on. Self doubt, worry, am I good enough? Everybody else is doing the same thing. Why would I be any diff you know, all these things. Right.

For sure. And that's that's just mind energy. And I love what Q says that knowledge comes before feeling. So you know it, and then it's just this feeling of heck yes. Yes.

It's just a Mhmm. Hell yes. If it's a hell yes, then go. And and if you get a hell yes, you know that's it. You don't you know, just put aside all the mind energy and just keep going because that's the clue right there.

That's beautiful. I love that. Yeah. As you guys were sharing your shares, just kind of the the coalescing, the the main, nuggets I received from both of you speaking is, it's it's this your desire for your your gardening, your passion for playing in the dirt and being you know, growing plants, digging, it's it's that connection with, you know, I I wanna say earth, but it's it's more than that too for me. I I kinda I made I made my own garden three years ago, and so this will be the third season for me.

So it's it's a connection with the space. It's a connection with plants. It's connection with source, and it all interconnects and inner it's all interdependent. But if you bring your love for nature, for the outdoors, it's it's in that that the the garden will thrive. And I wonder if you guys could speak a little more about that because that's that's what Q is also talking about.

You know, if we start growing our own food and grow it with love and care, we take great care and just they're they're beings. They are also spirit beings. And if we take great care of them, guess what? They take great care of us and energize and balance our bodies and give us what we need. So either one of you would like to speak on that, I'd love to hear more.

Okay. I'll go. Go ahead, Vic. Well, I would just say that the intention of working in the garden and growing plants and nurturing them and paying attention to them and feeding them and watering them and going out and checking on them every day or whatever. It's no different than preparing a meal for your family because your energy and everything goes into this intention and this time spent.

And you can either fill it with anger and, oh my god, what a chore this is, and I don't know. I don't have the energy, or you can fill it with this love, this awareness of that connection that you just described, Kelly. And, I mean, the rewards from that bond is it it's what we're all seeking. If we get out of our own way and we just allow those bonds to naturally grow, it's the best it's the best relationship you can ever find. Mhmm.

Because, yeah, they these plants nurture us. They feed us. They nurture us. They're colorful. They're full of activity with bugs and pollinators and all kinds of activity around them.

It's it's a real symbiotic thing that we cannot, deny. Absolutely. That is that is beautifully said. I think it it was you, Bo, that was saying your your inspiration to create the radio show was because you you sounds like you've always wanted to help people, but you wanted to help more people. So I I guess kind of bring your your experience, your journey, your your just all of the above to a a wider audience.

So what do you what do you want the listeners who are hearing this to glean from your the information you present, whether it's, you know, on your program page or, you know, the the stuff that you present on your radio show, what in particular it's probably not one thing, but how do you feel it will help more people, and what do you think what would you like them to glean from all of it in a nutshell? No. That's that's a loaded question. I know. That's a that's a lot.

When I first went to college, I went because I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. And, shortly thereafter I got married and everything changed, but I've always had that heart that I wanted to to teach and to bring information to to others. And then it wasn't until my thirties that I really got super interested in in plants in that I I went back to college and I I I got an associate's degree in horticulture just because I grew one tomato and one zucchini in very sandy soil in Redondo Beach, California. And I got got a ton of of fruit off of both of them. And I was really that really inspired me.

I weeded, I fed, I did what I knew what to do at the time and they rewarded me in a big way. And so long story short, I got my degree in horticulture and then I moved to Idaho and then I became a master gardener. And part of the master gardener, program is is, being a volunteer. And so you volunteer in various various ways through the program, again, teaching, and then also through the Idaho extension office. Once I started gardening on my own, I started, I had so many vegetables.

My neighbors shut shuttered their doors when they saw me coming with a basket of food. I learned how I took a class called food safety advisor, which is actually on home preservation and it teaches you how to teach others. So I've always had that in mind. So with the radio show, there's those things that I want to bring to people, but also, excuse me, a frog has got my throat this morning. Know, Kew's been talking about homesteading and being free on your land.

And that's been a dream of mine since I've been in my twenties is to have my own land and to be free on it and do whatever I wanted to do. To live sustainably, to not only not excuse me. One moment, please. Not only not harm the earth, but to to bring forth life abundantly. And through my experience and Vicky's experience, we've we've learned how to do that.

And just to be able to assist other people. Okay. So here's the thing. You get your homestead your homestead, got land, now what? How's that?

We we're not gonna just talk about gardening. We're gonna talk about canning and making your own medicines. We're we we have a lot of that we're going to bring forth. We're gonna talk about electroculture and permaculture practices. I'd like to bring in alternative building materials and how to maybe make a straw bell house or a cob home.

So living on the land and being free on it for me is huge. And having that, again, that symbiotic relationship with the land that you're living on with everything around you. A good illustration for me is the Ringing Cedars of Russia series, the Anastasia books and her Kinstomane. I don't know if you're familiar with those, Kelly. Familiar.

Yeah. But to to grow what you love when you when you love what you grow, it it loves you back, and it provides you not only with sustainable food, but it nurtures your spirit as well. So I'll leave it at that for right now. Oh, that's awesome. I I think that kind of dovetails with what Vicky said about meal prep.

It's anytime you put love into anything, it it energizes and and loves back. I I feel that with a lot of things. So I wanna kind of launch off the homesteading. It's such a beautiful imagery, and I know that's where we're headed. I know that's what I can't say all, but we we there's so many of us that long to live free on our land and live sustainably.

But then, you know, let's let's meet the peeps where they are. Right? There's there's people listening that are brand new to gardening. They they've never maybe they live in a walk up in New York or, you know, just suburb somewhere of of Nowhereville. Where did where did they they're asking, great.

That's super great. Where do we start? I have minimal to no land or anywhere to plant. How how do I start? Do you have any suggestions in that in that respect?

I'll go with that one. I live in apartment building, and I do have a tiny little patio. And in front of my kitchen window is a ornamental pear and a nine bark, which is a big, beautiful bush. And I plant everything in pots. I plant tomatoes.

I have all of my herbs, chives. I've planted lettuce, greens. I have mints. You can do it if you have like you said, a walk up. If you have a time, even if you have the fire escape on a walk up, you could put a couple pots out there, put some pots in your window.

That's how you can start. You can start small. I've I've had an acre of land years ago, but now I don't. I've had community garden spaces, but I don't this year. So put things in pots.

Again, if you just even have even if you just plant some flowers because you love flowers, plant some flowers. Vicky just wrote a beautiful article that's on BBS about pollinators. Plant some flowers that will attract pollinators. It starts small. And actually, if you if you listen to our last show, you know, you start small and you don't wanna you don't wanna start big anyway, because if you do, you're if you start small and are successful, you will be more encouraged to here's a pun, grow your garden bigger the next year.

So starting small, there's nothing wrong with that at all. Yeah. So I would say, you know, start with what lights you up. You want a tomato, grow a tomato plant. You want basil, grow basil plant.

Whatever it is that that sounds good that you really wanna love on and and have love you back, that's a good way to start. You know, I when I started my garden a few years back, my friend and I you you mentioned Master Gardener, but we sought out the Master Gardener program in my area, and I know they're all around Master Gardener programs. And they taught us so much about my particular zone, and I don't know if maybe you could speak about zones just briefly. But all the geography all geography, they've been broken into zones, and my growing season's only probably ninety to a hundred days. It's very short, so I had to kinda learn what I could grow in that short period of time.

But that's a really good way to start to learn if you if you do wanna learn. Like you said, there's volunteers that do seminars, and we had one at the the local expo center here. And we just showed up, and and they had a handout, a pamphlet. And that's a really, really good place to start. And also, you know, check into your your community gardens, see if you can just grab a little corner of space in a community garden.

So those are some suggestions. But the Master Gardener program is really amazing. I don't know who would like to maybe say more about that. Well, I would like to chime in on the first question that Beau was just talking about that I I think it is helpful if you have kind of a desire to get started. Meet your neighbors, and you can you can share your desire with people that you see every day.

Hey. Are you interested in maybe exploring our ability to co garden on our patios or, you know, like, you know, the fire escape, whatever? I mean, you can start that small or just in a neighborhood. You know? I already garden, and then do you garden?

And maybe we can plant more of this so that we have enough to, what do you call it? Share. Barter? Well, to share, to barter, and to preserve. And so there's you know, I think it's really important, and that's why Bo and I are doing this because we wanna share all the different possibilities that we've encountered and also to help create new ones.

And I my mantra really had for years has been bloom where you're planted. You don't have to change a whole lot in the immediate. You just have to start. And the other thing is don't be afraid to start, you know, because this this is an experiential endeavor. There's no right or wrong.

Seeds when seeds know what to do when they're given the right opportunity and the right, you know so it's just about not being afraid and also exploring your desire and sharing it with other people. That's why we're doing this. So, Kelly, to to address what you were saying about the zones, in our last show, which was last Sunday, we talked about how to plan a spring garden. It's a it's actually it doesn't have to be spring, can be omitted. And then, I promised in the show that I would write a article, sort of a synopsis of everything we talked about, which I did.

And I wrote the article. It's on BBS. You can go to our page or even BBS's front page. So you can go to bbsradio.com or you can go to our page, bbsradio.com/downanddirty, and that article will be there. At the very bottom of the article, there's actually a USDA plant hardiness map at the bottom, and it shows all the different zones.

It's kind of small, but within that article, there is a link to go to the website to find out what zone you live in. Like you said, Kelly, you have about a hundred days, of growing season. I learned how to garden when I was in Southern California. It's much longer there. So it all depends on temperature basically.

And if you have frost or not in the South, they probably never stop gardening. You know, I know Vicky lived in Mexico for a while, so she can speak about gardening down there. So it is very important to know how long your growing season is because if you go to a reputable garden center, they will bring in plants that will fit the zone you're in. And there's always very helpful people in the garden centers who are more than happy to assist you in determining what you can grow and where. Yeah, that's what I found too.

The the local area is is catered to that. And, you know, the seed packets too. They they tell you everything how, you know, all the how far apart to plant them, how many, you know, all of that. Did you read my article? I I did not, but I will.

It sounds like you did. You I just I I know I know some things. I do know some things. But you said you mentioned Southern California, and we have Chris on on the phone that's she's from he's from Southern Cal and wants to talk about avocados. Chris, are you there?

Chris, are you there? Yes. Can you hear me? Ah, yes. So you wanna know about avocados?

We can hear you. Yeah. What I just to give you a quick, by the way, Kelly, I have really enjoyed your show, and I really enjoyed with, listening to you with q a couple weeks ago. I've replayed that many times, and it's just so, this resonates really well for my wife and I, because that's kind of you you you covered lots of questions and and topics that are just so pertinent to where we're at. And so thank you so much.

Thank you. I just wanted to I I live in a farming community in Southern California. It's a big avocado area, citrus, etcetera. And right now, we're we're on about three and a half acres here by accident. And and I'll you, it it's it's because we've been standing up to our civil servants and, and, holding them accountable to the law.

And, so we found ourselves kind of in a camping situation here on our land patented land here. We had to move out of our home, up in the mountains, about an hour and a half from here, because, anyway, I I don't want didn't wanna get I'm sort of here by accident, and I just wanted to call in and and describe to you if I could a situation. We're right near an avocado grove, and I go there with my dog, to walk him and, found ourselves having fun looking at possums that are all, you know, made their homes inside the little sort of these old avocado trees, and and, there's just tons of them that fall on the ground. And so I've been picking them up because I just think it should be a crime to waste fruit. Anyway, so I've been collecting them so much.

I go around to the neighbors in this area and found lots of it's like a paper route, and I and I just drop off bags of avocados to make long story short. That is so cool. I do it. Just let me tell you. This is just because it's fun.

You know? I mean, I I didn't I didn't had no intention for this to develop into anything. But as the weeks went by and I'd been dropping them off, now I'm getting lemons and limes and all kinds of services and things. People are reciprocating because they just see these avocados every week or whatever on their doorstep. You know, I don't I don't ring their doorbell or anything.

I just leave them there, and they know where they're coming from. So and there's and it's still it's so there's so many that I can't keep up with it. And so I start thinking about, you know, all the citrus and everything around here and all the waste, all the fruit that just just rots on the ground because people aren't taking care of it and everything. And so I start my wheels start turning, and I think, well, how could we do, like, a not a business so much, but a service where, you know, you you you help out these people in their their private residences and their homes to, take better care of their their produce. And so, anyway, I just throw that out as an idea, Kelly, of, you know, wondering what we could do with that idea because it's a lot of fruit.

Let me tell you. It's thousands of avocados that I'm collecting. And Yeah. And I can I can collect the whole whole grocery bag, you know, which is really heavy, you know, in about ten, fifteen minutes? So so, anyway, we're we're really enjoying, just the whole, homesteading thing, and and I I was just, you know, my wife and I were just trying to grow everything.

And and like you said, we just get started. We're we're sort of failing forward. Everything's sort of by accident, it seems, but it's all just I am just in seventh heaven. I love this. I'm just taming the land, getting the weeds out.

Wood chipper I just got arrived. Now I can get rid of my piles, and then there's three horses across the fence there that I can collect all the manure. And so we're kind of making soil and, just, it reminds me of that movie, The Biggest Little Farm. I don't know if you've ever heard of that, but it's amazing for process, to to do what we're doing. And I just appreciate your what you're do you guys are doing.

And, just sort sort of throwing something out there if there's any ideas on what we could do about wasted fruit mainly and, at this point. But I'll have tons of questions for you guys in the future, specifically on growing stuff and problems and things. Oh, awesome, Chris. Thank you so much for that insight because I was I just spent a couple months in Southern Cal around surrounded by avocado trees. And I have that same feeling, not just avocados.

It was oranges and limes. And and I was watching them mold on the ground. And I I just it was breaking my heart because it was just endless. And then there's these people walking into the stores and purchasing, you know, produce, fruit from Mexico or Chile or wherever, and it's just it's just asinine. So I love what you're just sharing because, also, I noticed there are, fruit stands on the the the roadways.

Not a ton, but there were a couple. Why not, like, set something up and have people come it's like one of those little book stands that you see in the the the neighborhoods. Just let's just share. Maybe something like that if we all just created a little fruit stand or whatever stand and just said, take. Please take.

And then I've been all started doing that. Yeah. Free store. Yeah. I just started doing that.

Yeah. Wow. What what a great, great idea. Great inspiration, Chris. I love that.

I I really feel what you're saying. I was noticing it too. That lit me up, Chris. Thank you. I'm pretty sure I know the area you're in and Kelly, I know where you were staying.

Yeah. And my parents had purchased some property down there for the purpose of growing avocado trees. It never happened. Long story. But my daughter lives in the Phoenix area and it's the same thing there with the citrus.

They live, their property butts up against, an irrigation canal. And I would take walks along there and people have tons of fruit trees that go over into, you know, where I could freely pick and I didn't have any qualms picking it. And you walk through the neighborhoods and there's grapefruits and kumquat, everything just lying on the ground. It is really a shame. And, Chris, I my if I was wearing a hat, I'd take it off to you because you're doing a great service.

And if I give you my address, will you send me some avocado? That is so that's a great story. They may not be perfect, though, you know, because they're from the ground. That's that's more than okay. The perfect fruit is is something that is not really even real.

If you grow your own food you know, if you if you if you grow your own food and you pull a carrot out of the ground, nine times out of 10, it's gonna be all curled. It's not gonna be straight and perfect like what you get in the store. That's really that that's from a monoculture, even organic, you know, when you buy organic, it's basically monoculture, and that's not how nature is. That's that is not a replication of nature. So Yeah.

Imperfect is fine with me. Absolutely. One thing that I've noticed here in Boise is a lot of people are doing sourdough and and different things. And I just was walking in my neighborhood, and there's this cute little wooden box sitting right out on the sidewalk to purchase eggs. Oh, good Obviously, obviously, they've got their chickens in the backyard, and they have a wooden box where you can lift up, get a dozen eggs, and put your money in a little little box.

And it's so so much of this is going on now. These cottage industries that people are doing in their homes and being able to sell these beautiful, you know, made with love, I'm thinking. You know, the sourdough breads and and the course of eggs. So I would encourage Chris to see if it's okay to do something like that where you can share with different people who have all this produce. And it's a really good idea to clean up the fruit off the ground.

You know? Get it out to the people who are who will appreciate it. Mhmm. Yeah. I really love the the kicking it up a notch from I mean, I have in I live rural rural Oregon.

And, you see eggs for sale and, you know, but it's it's we want that green piece of paper for it. And so how do we how do we kick it up a notch? And somebody's gotta start it. And, Chris, you're you're kicking it off. Let's let's kinda start the wave now, and let's just put out free stuff.

And then I think what we'll find is people will have their free stuff and it'll come to you and then it'll be that place where people will start sharing everything. That's kind of what I envisioned. How about you guys? I think that's great, Chris. Another idea occurred to me.

If you get enough and perhaps with your neighbors and friends with the citrus fruit, you can always donate it to homeless shelters or places like that. You've probably already thought of that. Food banks. Food banks. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. He might he might be Yeah. Absolutely. Oh, there he is.

Cool. Was gonna say, yeah, absolutely. What really resonated to me was just going out and meeting the neighbors like you were saying, and, and that's what I found. And it and it's just sort of morphed into this thing where, yeah, it's now we have almost a barter system. I for instance, one of the guys I deliver a bag about every week and a half, to, of avocados, He he's offered me five of his canary palm seedlings that have just you know, because they're just growing around on the ground and taking up space, and he wants to get rid of them, and they're kinda hard to dig out.

But I love canary palms, and and so now I've got five of those in pots, and I'll transplant them eventually to where I want them to go. But that just came out of the fact that I've made a connection with him and his wife with avocados. And and so, you know, somebody else has given me lemons and limes. Somebody else is letting me use their their garbage pickup, believe it or not, you know, for getting rid of my garbage because we don't have garbage pickup here. Oh, wow.

They charge $90.90 dollars a month they charge, by the way. Wow. Wow. Oh my god. It's it's just the the options money that is just great.

Yeah. The possible community. Yeah. Growing. I like that.

The growing community. But Growing community. Yeah. Also, I listen to how excited he is about I know. Just walking in an avocado orchard, orchard, and now what's happened.

He's met his neighbors. Now they're trading they're they're creating a community around the obvious, but it's not obvious until, know, until you take action on it. It's so neat to hear this story. It's so good. And I know, unfortunately, I I could continue this conversation for a long time.

I'm coming up close to needing to wrap it up, but thank you, Chris, for sharing that. I think you might have started a a movement, a growing community networking movement. Yeah. Go, Chris. Absolutely.

Awesome. I love it. You, Chris. Thank you for calling. Thank you.

You're very and your your inspiration is, catching. It's it's contagious. I love it. Very, very much. So just before we kinda wrap it up, girls, your show airs next next Sunday next, yeah, next Sunday?

Yes, ma'am. Not tomorrow. And is there a specific topic you'll be having on that show? Well, we we are going live for the first time, so we will be taking calls. And as far as the specific topic, I'm going down to Boise next week.

So we will probably hone that in, and we'll make sure that that gets advertised. I know column 17 does an advertisement, and we can also do a headline on BBS on the front page. So I don't know, Vic. What do you think? I, well, we've talked about so many things that we haven't narrowed it down because we Well, whatever whatever it'll be, it'll be it'll be amazing.

I have no doubt. So please, y'all tune in, 10AM. Now what is your it's 4PM Central. Yep. On Sunday, station one.

You guys, don't don't miss out on that. And I will be posting your show summary, your show information on my page. I'll figure out how to do that. I promise I will. So I just wanted to thank you both for just sharing your heartfelt passion with us today.

It's been such a pleasure, and I I can't thank you enough for coming on with me. So Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. And our show is called down and dirty Yes. On BBX radio.

Yeah. So tune into that. Tune in to my conversation with Q on May 10 at 10AM central. Next up is unstoppable love with Lauren and Sosha. You can't miss that.

I wanna thank BBS, everyone listening. Just see you all in two weeks. It's gonna be I I this the momentum we have, you guys, is just palpable. I love it, and, I can't wait to be with you all in two weeks. So beautiful day.

Beautiful Q day. Thank you so much, Kelly. Love you. Bye everybody. Thank you.

Bye. Thank you. Thank you.