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Season 4 - Episode 164 - The duality of the garden · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy. Into the.
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  World. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way, hey?
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  Everybody good morning from the chicken coop.
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  It's been raining. Can we just talk about the rain?
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  So the rain has been relentless. It has been non-stop day after
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  day. It does rain every day but not
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  all day. But when it rains it rains like
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  enough for quite some time. So we went from having a, what
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  they would consider a, you know, drought, severe drought.
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  I don't know if it was severe in my opinion, but they said we
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  were in a drought, we were in a burn ban.
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  We had all these different things happening.
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  And now we have an abundance of rain.
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  And it is, well, it's wonderful for so many things.
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  And I'm not complaining about the rain.
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  What I'm saying is it presents challenges and in the garden and
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  in growing things, flowers, whatever vegetables, it is
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  always a challenge when you have this much rain because things
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  are getting beaten up, things are getting inconsistent water,
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  which lots of times they don't like.
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  Like tomatoes, which are my most fun thing to grow and I look
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  forward to the most because I live for the BLTS and the tomato
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  jam. And here's the deal.
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  Right now, right this minute, I have some plants that are doing
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  exceedingly well and all of this and some that are not meaning
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  tomato plants. And it's always a challenge for
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  me to walk in there and be like, OK, what do I do?
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  Because it's so frustrating when you know there's not a lot you
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  can do about it when it's this far down.
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  Now this week, heat is supposed to kick in.
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  And then when the heat kicks in, a lot of them will just stop
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  fruiting. When it gets to a certain point,
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  they won't necessarily die, but they get to a certain point and
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  they won't stop fruiting. I mean, they won't fruit and and
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  they just won't produce anymore. So now is where I have to get
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  into a different headspace. I'm going to be able to harvest
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  what I can before anything splits.
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  I do have some that are ready to go, so I'm excited about that.
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  We'll see where it goes. But this is one of the lessons
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  that I absolutely have such AI have.
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  I have a love hate relationship with it because I love the
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  challenge of being able to go out there and see what I can
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  make happen. And I hate the fact that I don't
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  know what my guarantees are. So it is a love hate
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  relationship with my garden and it and it's just true.
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  I would be lying if I said it was anything but that.
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  I hate the fact that when I'm working in the spring, I'm
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  probably bitten up like crazy by these little tiny noseums and
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  aggravates me to no end. And I love the fact that it's
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  cool that I can work and I can get out there.
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  You know, I mean, everything has the duality.
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  And this is nothing different. Right now, I stand here and I'm
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  in the chicken coop run, and I'm looking over at the garden.
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  The girls are eating breakfast. Sun hasn't come up yet.
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  I'm already sweating like crazy because the humidity is so high.
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  I'm going to go over there. I'm going to pull some tomatoes
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  out, pull some cucumbers out and I'm going to say, OK, this is
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  this is the work I have to do. Now in observation, which are
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  the types of tomatoes that are doing really well with all of
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  this because I might as well stick to things that work.
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  Why would I keep trying different ones?
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  Well, because that's me. I keep trying different ones.
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  I'm not allowed to get disappointed.
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  If I keep trying different things and they don't work, I'm
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  not allowed to get disappointed. What I am is allowed to get
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  observant and say, OK, this one worked.
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  This one didn't. This one was good, this one
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  wasn't. Don't need to get myself
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  irritated. All I have to do is stay
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  observant. And that's what I have to keep
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  reminding myself because irritated is not far behind on
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  my bus. Trust me and my certainty.
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  Girl's like, why do we do this? Why do we do this?
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  And it's, it's just part of the fun.
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  I'm air quoting and what the what the challenge is and it's
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  so cool to say is it fun? Yes.
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  Is it? Is it driving me crazy?
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  Yes. Two things can be true at the
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  same time. Multiple things can be true at
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  the same time, my friends. So what's important to remember
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  is we are going to be observant. Go in there, do what we can,
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  write it all down, plan it out. And it's a great lesson in how
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  to manage your emotions through something.
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  Because boy, I'll tell you what, this is all about managing my
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  emotions at in every single way I possibly can.
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  This is about managing my emotions.
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  So I hope you guys learn something.
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  From my struggles. With this and I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.