Episode 210: Peter Giles

Published: Oct. 14, 2014, 8:51 p.m.

b'Todays featured farmer: Peter Giles After living in Wyoming for a few years, in 2009, Peter moved with his wife back to his home City of Rutland Vermont. He then started Two Bad Cats with his father, Rick, to manufacture niche products. Luckily at the same time the city was having a small scale agriculture and farmers market boom. After helping out on a small organic farm for a summer Pete was introduced to the difficulties of vegetable production. At the request of the farm owners, Pete and his father took some of the more tedious farm tasks and made products to help make them easier. Two Bad Cats most popular products are a rolling dibble wheel for plant spacing and a plant popper for getting plugs out of plug flats.'