Raw Episode 236: Garden Maker | Bill Sadler | Elwood, KS

Published: April 9, 2018, 8:51 a.m.

At https://www.gardenmaker.com/our-story (Garden Maker Naturals), we want to help gardeners grow their best possible gardens. Every garden is different – different plants, different weather, different soil. Why shouldn’t your fertilizer be just as unique? Today you can build your own burger and design your own doll, so we thought you should be able to formulate your own fertilizer, too. In March of 2017, we launched https://www.gardenmaker.com/our-story (Garden Maker). Our three core values are Natural Nutrition, Total Transparency and Complete Control. Natural Nutrition for your garden soil means we only use natural & organic ingredients. Total Transparency lets you know exactly what you’re feeding your garden, because we show you the exact formula of every fertilizer we make – every single ingredient in the bag. And Complete Control means that we make it easy to find or create a fertilizer that contains only the ingredients you want, with nothing that you don’t. Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a Bio-chemist who fell in love with sustainability I’ve done a fair amount with soils endangered animals environmental projects predominantly from the business world because my belief was until the board rooms talk about sustainability nothing’s gonna change but I’m pleased to say a lot of boards are talking about green and what it takes. Well my listeners are gonna love this because I call my listeners Green Future Growers, they’re forward thinking entrepreneruial visionaries they’re  IDK why in my life I am addicted to business podcasts because when I first went to college I wouldn’t have walked into the business building for the life of me. https://amzn.to/2GH7ySw (Beauty and Briefcase) There’s this funny movie with Hillary Duff called the https://amzn.to/2GH7ySw (Beauty and Briefcase )and she falls in love with this guy who is not a tree-hugger at all but he’s an environmentalist because it’s efficeincy and reduces waste. And Im very much like that I hate any kind of waste. Tell me about your first gardening experience? That’s easy one for me! I had a father who was a bit ahead of his time on the green side I wouldn’t say he was  a hippy quite opposite But he liked farming liked the earth understanding what weeds did At the age 7-8 we had a big garden and I was pretty involved with that He decided I should sell extra produce my brother preceded me 1950s we did a farm to market garden stand back in the before anyone knew what those were 350 -400 tomato plants picked peppers corn We sold the excess in a roadside stand father, he’s not with us but I have to give him full credit a bit of understanding of what’s good on the earth and to be involved as a businessman entrepreneurship 5-6 years Other then a few years when I went away to college I have had a garden every year of my life. Some in there I hadn’t graduate school. My families garden or our own gardener long long time There’s been an epiphany in our family because my daughter who lives down the hill from us on a farm is now the head of the family and I’m the assistant and I couldn’t be more thrilled that she has taken up the effort and the staff. How big is your place? It’s 200 plus acre farm now in our family garden viewed a large garden in most households grapes and a number of other things moved another generation looks like her 2 sons are engaging in the garden as well! All exciting for how long we’ve been in the garden industry? That’s awesome! Do you want to talk about the environmental projects or the endangered animals? How a chemist falls in love with sustainability? Yeah! a guy told me something I scoffed at when i heard it. The gentleman’s comments was you will gain your passion as you execute it and do it not at teh Support this podcast