The Kitchen Mechanic

Today I'm talking with Kevin at The Kitchen Mechanic.

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00:56 You can find them at HomegrownCollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Kevin at The Kitchen Mechanic. How are you, Kevin?  I'm Dandy. And where are you located? I'm located in Reno, Nevada. Oh, well, not quite Sin City, but close. What's Sin City? Which one? There's so many.

01:26 The one near you. Okay. Is it hot there?  Not yet, but it's still early. It's so, it's so, I only moved here like eight months ago.  And so I'm still getting acclimated, but you know, where I moved from, had tomatoes in the ground in March. I'm still waiting to put tomatoes in the ground here. Cause I, they, the locals say you have to wait till the snow melts off of this certain mountain peak to know that you're going to have any more frost issues. So.

01:55 I'm waiting for the snow to melt.  Okay, where did you move from? I moved from the Sacramento area.  Okay, yep, that makes sense.  I don't have you grow. Okay, I'm really garbling this. I'm sorry.  I didn't really know you could grow a lot in Nevada. Well, I'm still figuring it out. We'll see. But they have definitely have a shorter growing season.

02:24 Yeah, so I'll know for next year, you know, get my hydroponics out and get them started early and be ready for them. Because right now I'm still waiting for seeds to emerge from my little starts. So we'll find out. Okay. Well, tell me about what you do at the kitchen mechanic. Well, I mean, I retired from the culinary world some time ago, but I've kept one foot in it.

02:52 I do a lot pro bono stuff like, you know, schools do fundraising events  or like the city of Orangeville did a day of service for the city.  And  I ended up donating my time making breakfast for about 1200 people  for that event. And so just looking for opportunities to give back and, you know, do some teaching.  I started an online sto