Ron Wilson 11/18/2023 Hour 2

Ron chats with the Arbor Doc and Katie Stagliano.

Episode Transcript

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Good morning everybody. Welcome back.I'm Ron Wilson. You're in the garden.
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It is time for a bifurcation ofsegments, a combo called It's time

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for Weather. It's the weather andit's time for in the trees with our
true seer of sears, prognosticatetur ofpronuxicate Tours Weather predictor Extraordan. They're have
been doing assist he was five yearsold. Weather Channel idolizes the ladies and
gentlemen. He is the man whoinspired the saying trees are good. He
is our registered consulting arborist and amateurmeteorologists website arbordoctor dot com. The one

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the only ronrofie. Everybody has ona climbing belt this morning in harness,
everybody, everybody in the audience,just for you. That's amazing. What

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are they plenty on climbing? Theyaren't. They just brought him in like
a kind of like a dressed upfor Halloween. They're dressed up for the
arbor duct. Well, there yougo. I was very impressed. I'm
surprised that I was impressed. Hey, they're climbing onness. Okay, yeah,
I was too, to be honestwith And they've even got themselves attached

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to the ceiling and all kinds ofstuff, so that's kind of cool.
Anyway, talking with Ron rothis websitearbordoctor dot com, were you out dancing
in the rain yesterday? I wasvery happy. Yes. I mean,
as you pointed out, it wasnot enough in many areas, but every

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a little bit of helps something,so we'll take it. Looks like I
guess, uh, let's do thatfirst. Looking at the forecast for us
locally in Ohio and the Midwest,looks like we do have chances more and
more coming up in the next weekor so of some more showers. Yeah,
there's another weather system coming through thisweek that could give us close to

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ansure in many areas, which willbe very helpful. What's helped us this
this fall, at least in theCincinnati area immediate Cincinnati area, is that
we did have some pretty heavy raintowards the end of October, which puts
some decent moisture in the ground.Of course, yesterday, the seventeenth of

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November, was the first rain thatwe had the entire month. It was
major but at least at my location, so things were dry, although things
don't dry out as fast in Novemberas they do in August or September because
the sun angles lower and it's cooler. But I mean we were we had
a drought, you know, amonth ago, and the soil profile has

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not gotten you know, rewetted fullyabout an inch of rain in the forecast
for many areas this week, soI'm hoping I believe it when it's in
my rain gage, but looks likea pretty good chance this week. Yeah.
Well, and again, you know, if you don't get that,
you know, build on it.That's a great thing, you know,
if before or afterwards add a littlebit more through afterwards, or I put

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some in there beforehand and capture alittle bit more, so you know,
build upon it. But yeah,we'll take whatever we can get out there,
there's no doubt. And as yousend me that drought monitor of the
map this morning, I guess thesouth is really hurting, Yeah, Gary
Buckman Land is really really hurting rightnow, and they've had this for for

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quite a while now, but they'rein extreme drought down there, which is
the worst category of the highest categoryof drought. Really really bad conditions and
virtually the entire state of Louisiana,you know, good part of Mississippi,

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extreme drought extending up really into southernand southeastern Tennessee. And now severe drought
is up into southeast Kentucky with moderndrought in a larger area the southern and
east in Kentucky and southern Indiana.So yeah, I mean the south,
you know, large area is reallyreally dry. So get out in water.

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You're playing for Thursday down there especially. Yeah. Absolutely, Talking with
Ron Roth is his website arbordoctor dotcom. Be sure and check it out.
What you get on his website,you're stuck. I mean it's like
Hotel California. You check in,but you can really never leave. No
exactly exactly, and that's why that'swhere you have the same we have.
By the way, I've been havingsome issues with the website. I mean

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it's it's basically fine, but we'vebeen, uh, well, we're we're
working on a couple of little bugsthat are that are in a couple of
spots, but most of it's good. Hopefully all of it will be good
soon. Yeah, because so wecount on you as far as getting all
the top notch information when Buggy Joeisn't around. Yeah, Buggy Joe,

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I guess it's gone back into hibernationfor the year, so to speak.
So to speak, well more lastYeah, well we'll big amount, all
right, So let's look at uh, let's look at long range here,
or somebody was saying last night thatstorm out on the West coast now starting
to move into the United States.I guess that'll be coming at us here
sometime next week. There is therea chance of the Arctic blast happening here,

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nothing like what we had last yearat the holidays. And in fact,
it's really you know, the computermodels were saying on Thanksgiving we're going
to have highs in the thirties,and they've actually eased up on that a
bit and have us back into theforties in Cincinnati. So highs in the
forties, those in the twenties,that's not really strange for November. It's

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pretty normal really first to get that. So after that, in the next
two weeks there it looks like morecold air is going to come down and
so we could definitely get some someteens. Wouldn't rule out some single digits.
So for the next weeks but Istill don't think it's going to be
anything like what we had last yeararound the holidays. So you know,

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winter's here more or less meteorological winnergets here and what about ten days or
so, uh two weeks? Sonothing nothing extraordinary in that in that realm.
You know for now you've noticed,of course, all the major storm
systems that have been hitting the Westcoast, right mm hm really yeah,

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I haven't. Oh yeah, therehaven't been. And that's I mean,
well that's why they rain out there. That was a trick question. I
know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
that that they said that that thatstorm has been sitting out there,
way out there and forever, andyou know now it's finally starting to come
on. So no, they haven't. I think that hurricane that came through

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there was a was a real rarityto right what three weeks ago or whatever
that was over that was over theywas that was weird. I mean,
that was like one of the onlytimes that's ever happened. And you know
what, what isn't happening right now? I mean that sword's been sitting off
the west coast, but it hasn'tbeen moving ashore. They are going to

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get some raine. This week's somehigh elevations in California, but nothing extraordinary.
And we keep hearing in the newsthat we have this super Almenia or
huge Almeno out in the Pacific,you know, with super warm water temperatures
and things. Right, just isn'tthe case, you know, believe it
or not. The news is exaggeratingagain, I'm sure you never happened.

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No, you'd notice that. Yeah, there's actually you know, be better
to classify it as a moderate Amenoout in the in the Pacific. And
you know, not every al Ninohas its own personality because other areas of
ocean water in different parts of theglobe also affect the weather patterns. And

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so this year so far, we'renot getting what you would consider to be
a classic al Aminia pattern. Youknow, California. Yes, there's been
a storm sitting offshore, but whatwe would expect in an Alminia pattern is
for those storms to be slamming underthe West coast and bringing mud slides and
heavy rain and things like that.And that's not happening and it's not forecast
to happen. The jet stream isfurther south, the tropical subtropical jet stream

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is further south than what we wouldnormally expect, and there's what's called a
split flow. The polar jet streamsup north and the subtropicals down south,
and they're not merging. A lotof times they merge. That's not happening.
To the extent that the polar jetstream comes southward, you get cold

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air that makes it in the UnitedStates. The extent that the subtropical jets
stream gets a little bit further north, you get rain or snow. But
you know, right now the SouthernStates are in drought and orlands States,
or you know, they haven't beentoo cold. This week gets colder,
but not anything abnormal. What we'reexpecting is that subtropical jet stream to stay

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really strong, but maybe further southand normal. So storms are going to
start coming through the southern United Statesinto the eastern United States. You know,
Gary Bakman Land for example, lookslike they could start getting more precipitation
as we go through the winter.And as we mentioned, I think the
last time I was on the airwith you, we're expecting our storms to

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move up the East coast and giveus probably a few pretty good snowstorms this
winter. Northeastern type snowstorms. Thatkind of leaves the Ohio Valley in kind
of an odd area where if thosestorms come a little bit further north,
the Ohio Valley could get decent snows. If they stay a little bit further

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south, we could have another winterwith very little and you know, cold
air get pulled down by these storms. So we are expecting as the winter
that get does on, uh,and that you may be weakening later in
the winter too, that that's thetemperatures are going to get colder, because
that's Su'm sorry, the polar jetstream is going to make it for the

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south, and so the eastern partof the United States will be getting progressively
colder as the winter goes on.We's that good chance of more easters going
up the East coast. That's kindof what the weather pattern is for the
for the winter. There's honestly,there's always question marks as to exactly how

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it's going to set up. Butthat's the way it looks like it's going
to set up right now. Andyou heard it from the man Ron Rothas
go to his websites arbordoctor dot com. We'll take a quick break. We
come back a couple of questions forhim. Anything we should do it for
our trees obviously right now besides wateringand uh, we just got a new
update on the USDA Plant Hardiness ZoneMap. We'll talk one a little bit

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about that as well. It's allhappening here in the garden with Ron Wilson
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website is arbordoctor dot com. Talkingabout the weather first of all, and
what Ron seeing out there for us. We'll find out his weather. It's
going to be white for Christmas hereprediction at the end of the segment here.
But talking about the weather, andI think that was a great explanation
about El Nino. And of coursehe's kind of going against all the stuff
we've been hearing out there. Soagain it's great info. Go to his

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website arbordoctor dot com. So onThursday, I get the new announcement I'm
sure you did as well, theUSDA releasing the twenty twenty three plant Hardiness
Zone map. And well, youknow what I did, was I printed
out the nineteen nineties and then kindof overlaid it with twenty twenty three.
Wow, it's amazing how the zonesjust continue to move north. Yes,

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it is. And you know onething, it's a subtle day on the
new map. But if you goto their interactive map and and blow it
up so you can see in muchmore fine detail. You know, another
area that's moved into seven A isthe Lake Shore area centered on Cleveland,
Ohio, from Loraine County up toLake County. Yeah, well actually been

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moved into seven A. There weretwo yeah, two things that I saw
was that, of course now Ohiohas seven A and the southern eastern tip,
so now we have we have thatwhen and there's one little spot which
is really weird right around Mount Vernonthat still has a five B. I
mean it's one little dot right inthe middle of the county. But otherwise

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we are pretty much totally now sixA, six B, seven A at
the very southern tip. Uh.And then how Michigan has changed and and
in that area. Uh. Butagain, what's your language? It's I
don't have any problems saying that.I'm sorry. I what can I say?
You know, if you know it'snot officially that week today, after

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the day, then we'll watch ourlanguage. But anyway, looking at where
they were in nineteen ninety and howthat has all changed as well. But
you know, it's it's there,it's on paper and again we'll get the
Joe's going to get this posted nextweek, so folks can go to the
link. But it's just interesting howthis continues to just get a little bit
warmer and a little bit warmer.Yeah, I always, you know,

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caution people when they warm up theplant the heartiness zones. And I don't
have any you know, foundational argumentwith it, but the last time they
did this, people ran out andstarted planting things as if we were in
Atlanta, Georgia here in the Cincinnatiarea, and then you get a cold

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snap like we had last year atChristmas, and you know, things get
you know, the cherry laurel getskilled back to the ground and things like
that. So so you have tomake it for what it is, and
remember that we're still a lot furthernorth in Atlanta, Georgia, and if
we get one of these polar vortexArctic blasts that come down, you could

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still struggle with some of these,with some of these plants. So you
just have to be be careful.I mean, you know, Cincinnati is
in an area now where they saythat the winter temperatures are going to be
what about ten to fifteen on averagesomething like that. I mean no,

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I'm sorry, I'm going the wrongdirection. I'm zero to five or zero
to negative five. Well, that'sfine. That we got down to negative
nine negative tens just last winter.So you always have to remember that those
are average temperatures and they can stillget on occasion, you know, colder
than that. And if you're plantinga marginal plant, you're planting a marginal

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plant, and that means some yearit could get zapped, as happened last
year at Christmas when we switched overto the zone six out of zone five.
And I still say it to thisday. You know, you want
to be really safe garden like it'sstill zone five and even as zone fiders,
still is always an opportunity that youknow, it's going to change or
realize the fact that, like yousaid, those plants that are you know,
zone sixes and now you get thatzone seven coming into the tip there,

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but zone six plants are could beyou know, you get a cold
snap and we're still subject to havethat happening as you said, the further
north, and there's always a chancethat you're going to have some winter damage
on those you should that's just gonnahappen. So you should be aware of
that as you're planting. I agreewith you one hundred percent, which is
unusual. Oh no, that's theother way around. That's the other way

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around. You agree with me onehundred percent. All right, we got
we got to the other side,the other side of the planet. Hard
in the zones is just that,you know, is the temper just get
warmer in the winter. They alsoget warmer in the summer, So we
have to think about you know.And I also often wonder why don't we
have heap hard iness zones, youknow, how hot that they can get,
because that's a real limiting factor forcertain plants too. I mean sugar

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maple, for example, can't takethe really hot tematurs and long growing seasons.
Yeah, you know, they didhave that heat zones map that they
were doing a long time ago,and that kind of disappeared. I don't
know why, because you're right,that's just as important, if not more
than a winter dammage. You're thehearting the zones for the winter time.
So I agree with one hundred again. Oh my gosh, that's twice in
one show. Ron Roth is alwaysa pleasure. Armordoctor dot com have a

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us again this year. And it'ssuch a pleasure to always have this young
lady with us. And what's interestingis we've been talking to her since she
was nine years old. Go toher website. It's Katiescrops dot com.
K A T I E. S. K r ops and she has done
so many great things since she wasnine years old. And the interesting thing

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is, Joe Strecker was our producerat the time, and Joe and I,
if we got off the phone withk we said that young lady is
going somewhere because at nine years old, we thought we were talking to an
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chief executive gardener for Katie's Crops,Katie Stagliano, Good morning, Good morning,

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how are you. I am great. I have goosebumps, as I
always do when we have you onthe show, because every time I talk
to you, you're getting another awardor you're doing something else that's absolutely great
for the community, feeding the hungry, getting kids involved, gardening. It's
phenomenal. But last night your momemails me and I'm glad I caught it
because one another great honor. SouthernLiving magazine has named Katie one of is

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I think six of the twenty twentythree Southerners of the Year that was such
an incredible surprise. I we Idon't even have the words. I did
an interview with them, and theysent me the magazine and I opened it
and I was like, oh mygoodness, this wasn't just an interview.

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I was like, this is themost incredible thing. So it was an
incredible honor, a really great surprise, and just a wonderful way to end
the year. Oh absolutely, Andof course ending the year. I know
between now and the holiday season you'vegot a lot going on with all the
things that you do. But Ijust I pulled that up on my cell

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phone at home last night. Iwent, oh, my gosh, you've
got to be kidding me. Andof course when I got the studios this
morning, I was able to printit out so I could read it.
But congratulations, young lady, thankyou, thank you so much. Can
you believe we've been talking to yousince you were nine years old? No?
I literally cannot believe that. Andevery single year when we put out

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our Grower Search, this is whatI'm most excited for. I'm like,
oh, I get to go onthe Ron Wilson Show again. It is
the highlights of every year for me. Excellently, we love having you on.
Just so folks understanding and go toher website so you can learn more
about what where this all started.But and it's Katie's Crops and that's what
two case katiescrops dot com. Butthis all started when Katie was in the

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third grade with the cabbage program fromBonnie Plants, and she grew a forty
pound cabbage and basically you took itto a was it a food shelter or
a homeless shelter or food kitchen.I took it to a local sup kitchen
in my community and they made cabbagestew out of it. And what you

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fed like two hundred and seventy fiveguests or something like that. Yes,
my one cabbage, which is mindblowing to me, I helped to feed
two hundred and seventy five people.And that was it for me. I
was hooked. I thought, ifone cabbage can help to feed two hundred
and seventy five people, then imaginehow many people an entire garden could be.

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And that was what inspired me tostart Katie's Cross. And of course
that was at nine ten years old, and your parents fully supported you,
and you know, we got Katie'scrops, the website going, and it's
all just gone from there and it'scrazy. And of course today we're going
to talk you know, after thebreak, we're going to talk more about
the Katie's gardens than trading to getthose in every state throughout the United States.

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But you know, it's you've donea couple things here. Well you've
done a lot of things here.But you know, the thing I always
love is getting kids involved with gardening. And you know you took that when
you were young. And the footballsized garden that you first started out with
and got everybody with, was thatan old football field or just something at
the school or it was just somy first garden ended up being a gardener

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at my old school that was quiteliterally the size of the football field.
It was just an empty field theyhad They said, go for it.
This is yours. And what's evencrazier is now we have moved our flagship
garden to the campus of Crossroads CommunityChurch in my community and it's the size
of two football fields now. Soit just continues to grow. And it's

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been amazing because that garden in ourcommunity has helped us grow and donate over
seven thousand pounds of produce and we'renot done for the year yet, so
we're definitely having a record making yearin our flagship garden of the amount of
produce that we are going to beable to donate to those struggling with hunger

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and food insecurity in the community,which is amazing, and that just blows
me away. And again, thetwo things here is getting kids involved with
gardening, which is absolutely outstanding,and then taking what they're growing and donating
most of it or all of itto help feed the homeless. The shot
that folks that don't have something neatto starving to help feed them and now

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doing this in every state throughout theUnited States is crazy. It's just crazy
that you've been doing this, butmakes me smile every time I see your
name pop up. Trust me,you said you were excited to be on
our show, but I feel likeyou're one of our kids from the show
that you know, and it's beenso great watching you go through all this.
As a matter of fact, Ithought this was interesting through the through

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all of the years of doing this, over six hundred thousand pounds of produce
you have come up with through yourKatie's Crops program yes, and that is
all grown and donated by our amazinguse Katie's Crops growers across the country.
These are kids between the ages ofseven and seventeen years old, and they

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are just proving that age is justnumber and you can make an incredible impact.
So they are really saying, whatcan we do for our communities to
help provide a healthy solution to hungerand food and security. And we have
just the most incredible Katie's Crops growersand I'm so excited to continue seeing the

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impacts that they're able to make intheir communities. To add new growers to
our family. Just to hear allthese incredible stories and be able to empower
these kids is by far my favoritething. Oh I'll tell you what.
It's just again, it gives megoosebumps to know what you're doing out there.
And even during COVID. You toldus last year, even through all
the COVID that you guys were stillable to continue to feed those You had

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the drive up programs where you couldcome and pick up food. You just
kept it going. You never sloweddown, never slowed down. We saw
during COVID there was such an increasein people who were struggling with hunger and
food and security and people who hadnever had to deal with this before.
And one of our main programs atKatie's Cops Is are Katy's Crops Dinners.

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They were traditionally sit down dinners andthey're based off the produce in our garden.
During COVID, we completely had tochange that model and switch it to
a drive through distribution. And whenit was sit down, it was between
a hundred and fifty and two hundredpeople, and now at our drive through
meal distributions we do between six hundredand fifty and steven hundred meals and we

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still prepare them. They're all preparedand served by youth. We just pass
them in sto boxes through car windowsin the parking lot. And I don't
think we'll ever be able to goback to the way we're doing it before,
because there's so many people that we'renot in need before that now rely

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so heavily on these dinners and sharewhat a blessing they are to their family,
their friends, their neighbors. Andso this is something that we're going
to keep going with on the longhaul, just to be there for everybody
that is in need and that isnewly facing hunger and food and security.
And of course Katie is trying totake this since she's in South Carolina,

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take this to all the states andget more kids and families and parents involved
in grandparents and all. We're gonnatell you how you can be more involved
with Katie's Crops. How your daughter, son could be grandson, the granddaughter,
whatever, can get more involved andhave a Katie's Garden in your backyard.
How can you do that? We'regonna tell you after the break.

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the Garden with Ron Wilson and ourspecial guest this morning. It's always such
a pleasure to have her on ourshow. Been talking to us since she

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was nine years old. Been along time. I'll tell I'll be honest
with her. Boy, she's twentyfive right, yes, yes, congratulations
and so we've been talking to herfor a long time. Katie Stagliana.
Her website is Katie's Crops and that'swith ks katiescrops dot com. Has done
such a great time job to allthe things she's doing through all these years

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now. Just named the twenty twentythree Southerner of the Year through Southern Living
magazine, which is unbelievable. Justgot that press release last night from her
mom. I'm glad, tell herthank you for I did thank her for
that, but for sending that along. She's such a nice lady, is
the best and just the best supporter. None of this would be possible without

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her. Well, you know,you look back and you know you're right.
I mean back then, I rememberI think she was on the other
phone when you were talking to me, you know, just listening to what
you know you can kind of helpalong with you didn't need, but you
know, because I got what Itold you. You've heard me say it
before. We thought Joe and Iboth said, man, that girl is
going to go somewhere. Are yousure she's only nine years old? But
and you did. You didn't letus down. But just phenomenal support there,

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and that's that's very, very important. And you've taken a young lady
and done a lot with it.So let's tell folks what you're doing right
now, what you're looking for.So right now, we have just launched
our twenty twenty four Katie Scrubs growerSearch, and this year our grower search
is in a different format but it'sbeen in the past. We actually have

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it online this year and we arealso doing the majority of the application is
in form of a video, sothat way it is easier to really just
showcase your personality, to tell whyyou want to become a grower, to
give us a good feel of thespace that you will be growing in.

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And we also because our Grower switchis open to kids between the ages of
seven and seventeen, I think thisdefinitely helps the younger kids to make it
a lot easier to apply to becomea grower. So we are very excited
about this and very excited to getto see the faces and hear from all

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the incredible kids that are going toapply to become growers. Yeah, so
that's that's a great idea because thenyou get to kind of personally meet them
through that video. Yes, it'sso fun because one of the things that
I wish I could do is goand visit each and every Katies Crops garden.
So this is not quite that,but it's very close to it.

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Yes, the application will close onJanuary Sistem this year, so a little
bit of extra time, and weare so excited. We're looking forward to
seeing all these amazing kids apply tojoin our growing family and make a difference

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in their communities. And of courseearly applications are preferred, so get them
in as quickly as you can.Katie likes him. Get them in there
so she gets to see you rightoff the bat. Don't be one of
the last ones in here, beone of the first. Set the bar
up there for everybody else that comesin after you. But let get them
to her as quickly as you can. And of course, if they get
approved and you know, you givethem the check Martin and they're in.

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What happens at that point. Soif you are selected to join the Kitty's
Crops growing family, we are goingto provide you with the funding, the
support from our Kitty's Crops team,including our master gardener who is there to
truly answer any questions, help youout with your garden plans, things like

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that, and you'll all get accessto the private Cagscrops Grower website where you'll
get to share your photos, trackyour harvest total, connect with other growers.
So it really is like a family. We'd love to connect our growers
with each other to be able tobe there to help out with any issues
that may come up. If someone'slike, oh, I have these bugs

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eating my sweet potatoes, and someoneelse might be like, oh, I
dealt with that. This is whatyou do, so it's a really great
opportunity for the kids to learn andgrow at the same time, no pun
intended. I love it. Andof course you give them to get the
supplies to get them started. Yes, so within their funding it will be

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in the form of a gift cardto a local garden center, a home
improvement store wherever will work best forthem in their communities. And then they
will build out and start their gardensand they get to pick where in their
communities they will donate the produce,so wherever they see the greatest need in
their communities, with people that donateto senior citizens in their communities, to

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their local homeless shelters, two kitchens, food pantries, their backpack programs at
school, wherever they will be ableto make the greatest impact with their produce.
And I see you have park Seedas a part of the sponsors for
twenty twenty four. Yes, welove our friends at park Seed. They
are amazing and support us and somany of our programs, especially our Grower

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Search And we actually do have acollection with park Seed. So if anybody's
looking for any seeds to maybe giftsover the holidays or just get started to
plant with. If you go tothe park Seed website and find our collection.
You will be donating back to Katie'sCrops with your purchase as well,
which we love, so definitely besure to check that out as well.

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Yeah, so, if you're listeningto our show today and you don't have
a child or a grand child oran or whatever you'd like to help do
this between the seven ages of sevenand seventeen, that's quite all right because
you can help ktis crops out aswell through your donations. And that's one
way to do it by getting seedsfor your own garden and part of that
goes back to the to the Kti'sCrops as well. But folks can also

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donate directly to KDE's Crops. Yes, so on our website just Katiescrops dot
com, KTIU, the k andCrops with a K, you can find
information to donate to us directly monetarydonations. We have an Amazon wish list
of items we can need for ourks crops, dinners and for our gardens.

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And you can also reach out ifyou are a part of an organization
or a company that offers grants orother programming to help support us. That
would be amazing as well. Andyou can also see the companies and organizations
that sponsor us and how to supportthem. And finally, we also have

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some of our school gardens have theirown Amazon wish lists as well, So
if you want to look and seeX there is a school garden maybe in
your state or somewhere where you wouldlike to support, you can read their
stories on the Meet our Grower's pageof our website and also see how to
support them via an Amazon wish list. And this again, if for anybody

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listening, because we were networked aroundthe country, anybody listening, this is
good for all the states in theUnited States. Correct, yes, the
states in the United States. Wewould love, love, love to have
your support to get involved and justto see how we can support your community.
And trust me, if you justsimply donate to Katie's crops, you

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know where that money's going to go, Katie, and they do a fantastic
job. You're supporting such a greateffort here. It's great and again we're
getting kids involved with gardening, they'relearning more about it and they're also learning
how to take help to the communityto help other people. You couldn't ask
for more when you're putting your donationmoney out there, so got a little

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extra out there that you're looking forat the end of the year, Katie's
Crops could certainly use that as well. And again, if you've got that
seven to seventeen year old that you'dlike to do a Katie's Garden, get
it, you know, go tothe website, find out more about it,
shoot that video, get it donequickly, and get it to Katie.
So maybe you'll be one of therecipients as well. And all states
are included, so so be sureand check that out. Katie Stagleono,

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you're doing so much. Do youever take any time off? I take
time off here and there. Butthe great thing about Katie's Crops is,
to me, it doesn't even feellike work because it's doing some things that
I love. I love getting tospend time with the kids in the garden
and getting to spend time with thepeople that I'm helping, So it honestly

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doesn't feel like a job that Ineed to take a break from. It
just feels like I am so blessedto to do what I love every single
day. Well, you can tell, you can tell, but just in
your personality I could tell when youwere nine years old that's the way you
were gonna be. But yeah,but don't forget to get leave a little
time for yourself as well, toget out there and just relax. But

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you're doing such a great job,and you're right if you're enjoying it and
having fun and seeing such great resultsthat you're having, you know you sometimes
you don't need to break you justwant to keep at it. Katie Stagliano.
Always a pleasure having you on ourshow again. Her website is Katiescrops
dot com. Be sure and checkit out. Apply for Katiescrops Garden.
Katie, thank you so much.Have a great holiday season. Tell your

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mom thanks again, and keep keepit up. Kid, all right,
take care Katie. Okay, KatieStagliono against Katiescrops dot Com. Twenty five
years old and I'm still calling herkid, but sorry, that's the way
it goes. It's always be akid, right, been doing it since
nine years Okay, I still can'tbelieve it anyway. I wish we had

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