December 20, 2025 • 43 mins
In this hour of the show, Ron Wilson chats with Katie Stagliano, the founder of Katie's Crops, a national youth-based nonprofit empowering kids to grow fresh produce for their communities. Katie shares her incredible journey from growing a single cabbage as a 9-year-old to building a movement that's donated over 900,000 pounds of produce to those in need. They discuss the impact of gardening on kids, the organization's growth, and the importance of community support. You'll be inspired by Katie's passion and the difference she's making in the lives of young people across the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Our total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personally yard boy talking about yarding. The season is winding
down and I got a couple uh you know, if
you're looking, you got a little extra change or extra money,
you're looking to maybe help out of great organization, especially
when it has to do with kids. I've got some
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suggestions for you. And this is one of my favorites.
As a matter of fact, this particular one started with
a nine year old girl and a forty pound cabbage
that she grew in the third grade. It was the
Bonnie Plant Cabbage program. And since then, and we spoke
with this young lady when she was nine years old,
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all right, since then, that whole thing has grown into
a national youth a national youth based nonprofit with the
mission to empower kids across the country to grow better
tomorrow for the neighbors facing hunger and food insecurity. And
what she has done since that, that nine year old
to what she is doing today is absolutely phenomenal. If
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you want to see go look Katie's crops. So those
are with ks dot com. That's katieescrops dot com and
Katie is with us this morning. Katie Stagliano, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Are you always so cheer You were cheer You were
that cheerful when you were nine years old at seven o'clock,
eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm just excited to be here, excited to talk to you.
And I was thinking back, and I cannot believe how
many years it's been that we've been friends, and I've
been on the program I know, and I look at
that picture you with that when with your cabbage, and
I just laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I say, man, I've known her that long. Unbelievable. I
want to tell you something, and I'll tell you this
every time. What you continue to do with Katie's Crops
is absolutely phenomenal. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I am so appreciative. And it's truly because of people
like you that support our work, share the stories of
our amazing young growers and what we're doing to and
hunger that we're able to keep going and able to
keep supporting our neighbors and need across the country.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Now, even though Katie's Crops is based in South Carolina,
you obviously you're you are working across all the states,
across the country, trying to get Katie's crops and gardens
in all these states and get more kids involved, not
only in gardening, but growing this extra food to help
feed those that need that. I mean, it's just to
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take it from your small town to where it is
today is crazy. And of course your I know your
mom's been heavily involved from the very beginning, lots of
great volunteers and just it's crazy where you've gone. So
tell folks, look, let's just look at it today. What
is Katie's Crops doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So today we have lots of exciting things going on,
but really, to put it into perspective, I started with
a tiny cabbage seedling in the third grade, and now
seventeen years later, we have youth run vegetable gardens growing
across the United States, and our amazing young growers have
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grown and donated over nine hundred thousand pounds of fresh
produce to their neighbors, fighting hunger and food insecurity, which
is insane to think about, and I'm so incredibly proud
of them. And in addition to the produce that is
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donated in South Carolina, we do garden to table dinners
for our neighbors in need in the community and we've
been doing those for fifteen years and we have served
over one hundred and thirty thousand meals. They're all hot, healthy,
fresh and free and based off of the produce grown
in the garden. And we have engaged and welcomed over
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nineteen thousand youths to join our fight against hunger, to
get involved, to start a garden, to volunteer, and to
show them that it doesn't matter how young or how
old you are, you can make an impact in your
community and in the world. So we are just so
incredibly proud of everyone involved in Katie's Crops. All of
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these youths. They're starting vegetable gardens in their backyards, at
their school, in their libraries, community centers, and they are
making a tremendous impact. And we really saw this especially
during the government shutdown, when there were so many people
who were truly struggling. They either were out of work
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because they had a government job, or were in the military,
or they weren't receiving the snap benefits that they were
relying on. And we just thought unprecedented numbers and we
were so blessed because of the support of amazing people
to be able to support our military families by bringing
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fresh produce and groceries to them. We did grocery giveaways.
Our Katie's Crop centners saw incredible numbers and our growers
from across the country were really able to help fill
the void and the need. And I think you never
know what can happen, and so it's so important to
be ready to be able to step in and support
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your community when things like this happen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No doubt about it. Talk with Katie Stagniano, of course,
it's Katiescrops dot com K for katisankfocrops dot com to
learn more about what they're doing and to get involved
if you'd like to get involved. I'm assuming you've done
all your gardens for all the states. Ready to go
for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ready to go for twenty twenty six, and we are
so excited. We're really working on revamping our grower program too,
to make it even better. We're still learning and growing
seventeen years later, and so we're working to make this
program even better for twenty twenty seven. So very excited
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for that as well. But we have some truly incredible growers.
We have a grower at West Carlton High School in
Ohio and have been incredible. They have been growing with
us for almost ten years now and they grow hydroponically.
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They also have an incredible garden. They're at the school
and they make such a big impact. So it's so
cool to see these growers that continue to grow year
after year and are sustainably a part of the solution
to un hunger.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm just curious. Does anybody ever show up and say,
are you Katie Stagniano. I'm so and so, and you
gave us a garden several years ago. You ever meet
anybody like that?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, we actually have one of our growers in South Carolina,
nor in Eva. Their aunt was a Katie's Crops grower,
and I got to meet all of them together, which
is so fun because I don't always get to meet
the growers and I was like, oh my goodness, Like
it's so crazy to think that several years ago she
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was a grower and now her nieces are growers. And
a lot of times too, like for our Katie's Croft
Center guests and people we serve, they think my last
name is Crops. A lot of times people would be like, oh,
are you miss Cross.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Are you miss Crops?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I love a Katie Crop. I like Katie. Yeah, I
like that. Well it's Katie.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm like, do I need to change my last name?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well maybe you should, or maybe you put that in
the middle Katie Crops Stagliano.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
It has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It has a nice ring to it. Yeah, the whole
thing I think would sound great, you know, and I'm
sure that you and of course you probably get the
thank you letters and all of the above as well,
but uh, you know, it's like a professor or a teacher,
you know, all those uh the students that they taught
many years ago. You know, you wind up seeing them
somewhere down the road, and it's like, you know, man,
I appreciate everything. I'm sure as you continue to go
that this is going to happen to you as you
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go around the country. By the way, you I remember
one time we had you on and you won, And
I always like to bring this up because it's a
really cool. You've won about every award you could ever imagine,
but you had an award from I think it was
President Clinton at the time.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Correct, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And what was that award?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was honored to be the youngest recipient of the
Clinton Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Civil society. So
I received that award when I was fourteen, and it
was just such an incredible honor. And talk about being
in the room with such incredible people. There were kings
(09:40):
and queens and dignitaries and world leaders in the room,
and it was truly just the most amazing and surreal experience.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And who gave you the award?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Matt Damon gave me the award.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And you'll never tell us what you whispered to Matt
Damien when he gave you the award.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Private, I understand the opportunity to have a secret of that, Damon.
I got to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You got it, I get it, I get it totally.
One talking with Katie Staggler, I started to call you
Katie crop.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't do what happens all.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The time, Katie Stagliono. She is from katiscrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out, all right, So we're talking.
We're looking for money today. We're looking for folks that
are looking to donate and to help get kids more
and kids involved with guarding and help feed the hungry
as well. So what can we do to donate? What
are the options we have to donate to Katie's Crops.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So if you go to our website Katiescrops dot com,
Katie's a K and Crops with a K, you can
see our donation page where a monetary donation would be
such a blessing. If your business organization has a grant
that you think we would be a good fit for,
or if you know that funding that you think we
should apply for, please let us know. We greatly appreciate that.
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We're also looking for sponsors for gardening tools, gardening beds,
anything that in kind donations that we can use to
support our growers and our efforts. And additionally, we have
an Amazon wish list on our website as well if
you want to purchase something that will go directly to us.
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All of these things make a tremendous impact. It doesn't
matter how larger how small a donation is. You are
helping to ensure that a family does not go without
and has access to fresh produce and a hot, healthy,
free meal. And we are just so incredibly grateful for
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your support. And are always striving to be the best
stewards of all of our donations and ensure that they
go directly back to the use growers, to communities across
the country to help us grow healthy and to hunger
vegetable garden at a time.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And that's it's Katie's Crops vegetable garden. And her name
isn't Katie Crop, but it should be katiescrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out. I got you. If
you want a donation, you know it's going to really
work and then your money's going to be well spent.
This is another one to take a look at because
she just does such a great job. We've known her
for so many years and it's just go look at
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what she's doing. Katieescrops dot org or com. Now I
understand you've gone back to school, take a few extra classes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, I actually just finished up my school yesterday. So
I was honored to be selected for a fellowship with
Google and the Watson Institute. I was a Google Data
Center Community AI Fellow and it was a truly experience.
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I got to learn from so many amazing people and
really focus on how to utilize technology to really streamline
our efforts and our work so that I can spend
more time doing my favorite things and the fun things
being out in the garden, being out in the community
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and engaging with others and really making an impact, and
kind of spend less time sitting behind the computer and
doing administrative work and things like that. So it was
a really incredible experience. And I'm actually very excited because
out of all the fellows in my program, several of
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us were selected to share at the Google Data Center
Community AI Fellowship Summit in January on the sixteenth, and
I was one of the ones selected.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Actually, I wouldn't expect anything less from you, Katie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's an amazing, amazing experience. I had so much fun,
and I feel so honored to have gone through the
program and learned from such wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You can call her Katie Crop. You can call her
Katie Stagleano. Either way it works, but go to her
website Katie's Crops. Those are with ks dot com and
donate today. Katie, have a great holiday season. Merry Christmas
to you, thanks for spending time with us. We'll talk
to you in the future.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Merry Christmas, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Take care, Katie stag Leano katieescrops dot com. Quick break
we come back phone lines rope for you at eight
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
Fucking yarding at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Get the kids involved with gardening. That's all
I can say. And you look at to donate. That's
a couple of good ways right there, listening to our
show for you to help get kids involved with gardening,
and then take it upon yourself to get kids involved
with gardening. I just you know, I read more and
more research about it. You know, you read kids comments
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like I was reading earlier from a kids guarding dot org.
You know, but you know it's a fun way to garden,
fun like fun like fun, dirty fun, playing in the
dirt and you know the whole nine yards. And research
is showing too that, you know, when kids get involved
with gardening, growing food, whatever it may be, at a
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younger age, even though going through college, they may get
away from that for a while, getting it started in
their professional life early on, but then it comes back around,
and I think looking at today youth, if they've done that,
a lot of them are keeping it going through the
college as well, with indoor gardening, hydroponic gardening, container gardening,
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and affords all of us the opportunity to do some
type of gardening and continue on doing that even through
your college and early professional years, and then finally get
that home or whatever it may be, and then they
you know, start building the condo, the container gardening, raise
beds and doing things like that and getting more and
more involved all the time and growing your own fresh fruit.
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And I'm telling you, you know, been in this business
a long time, oh pretty much all my life since
high school. And you talk to folks sometimes about you know,
growing and the tomatoes and peppers. You know, everybody just
pretty much experienced that. But just like going to that
produce market a couple of weeks ago and then you know,
they had some fresh cares that they just pulled out
of the ground that morning from a hoop house. They
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had a hoop over the top growing and they let
grow in this kind of weather with no problem whatsoever
about the size of your I don't know, they were
about four inches long, five inches long and cleaned off.
But just to take that thing and put in your
mouth and chew. It's just the crispness and the flavor.
It's totally, so totally different than what you get. And
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and the do do a good job in our produce
to markets departments in our grocery stores. I get it,
but there's processing and shipping and all that involved, and
you lose some of the flavors. Sometimes it's just happens.
But you know, when you eat it fresh like this,
you realize how different it is. And so you know
that hughes start to think a little bit more about
growing your own and there are so many different ways
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to do that, whether it container, hydroponically, raised, beds in
the ground, whatever it may be. And you can extend
your season early on and later in the season with covering.
It's just so many things you can do. So keep
that in mind, keep yourself involved with gardening, get the
kids and grandkids involved with gardening. It's good for your health,
it's good for your mind, it's good for you, and
it tastes good too. Eight hundred and eight two three
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Speaker 1 (21:45):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
at toe Free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. All right, so well, we got five
days left shopping days before Christmas. And if you're sitting
there right now thinking, man, I still need a couple
more gifts for so and so, or a couple of
guests for that, it will last on for something. I
just want to throw my hat in the ring. What
had is that? Gifts for the garden or the gardener?
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And I'm telling you there are so many great things
out there today that can be fun, you know, indoor
hydropontic kits, indoor gardening stands, and of course gardening tools.
Sol a knife and a pruner. I'm still telling you
that's a great gift. I don't know if you could
get it shipped in time if you order from a catalog,
be really close. But a sol, a knife and a
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really nice pair of bypass pruners outstanding gift right there
for you. Bionic gardening gloves. You have to go on
their website. And again, I don't know if it could
be shipped in time. Great gardening gift, and I'll tell
you another one. You want to get kids involved with gardening,
get them a chia pet. You may laugh and remember
those things forever. They got some really cool characters. But
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the thing about chia remember chia seeds. Although the seeds
you use for your chia pet that you get with
the kid are not edible, but they do. You do
eat chia's seed, and you do eat the greens. These
are not labeled for human consumption, but you can buy
them labeled for human consumption and then use them on
your chiapet and then you're able to eat the greens
from the chia pet. That's pretty cool and it looks good.
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All the different characters that they have. That's a great
gift for kids. I'm telling give me one. I like
growing the chia pets. So you know, there are so
many great things that you can find at your locally
owned independent garden centers. Head out there today. See what
they've got available for you out there. And if you're
still not sure what to get, get them a gift card,
a gift card from your local nursery, your local greenhouse,
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your local independent garden center. Next spring when spring rolls
around and everybody's chomping at the bit to get out
there and do a little spring gardening. Well, they've got
that gift certificate from you that they can get out
and buy what they are looking to buy as well.
But I'm telling you, whether it's a regular gift or
you're looking for a last minute gift or whatever, gifts
for the garden, gifts for the gardener are absolutely outstanding.
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Out to your local independent garden centers and check it
all out. To a ICU unit in a hospital somewhere
in Alabama, let's talk to Harold. Harold, good morning.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I'll tell your all time and my frad that first quarter.
Last night, I was getting ready to go check myself
into the hospital.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, here's the deal. I turned on I turned
on the game to watch the game. I dozed off.
I admit I fell asleep. I wake up and at
seventeen and I seventeen and nothing, and I'm going, what
poor Harold. And then I go to sleep. I wake
up at seventeen seventeen, and then I had to go
to bed because I have to get early for the show.
(24:40):
And then I got this morning and see the final
score and it's like, you gotta be kidding, Harold. I's
got to be an ICU unit this morning.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I just it was faced and famine. I mean the
first quarter they just dominated this and I don't know
what happened, but man, we kicked it in and we
just took off. Where had the passing?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You think? So right, that's right, we.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Will play and the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
That's right there you go, and remember what I said,
roll tied for two games.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, I saw yeah, my Dallas. Yes, Do I need
to dig those? Are you? Am I my winners cool
or smild enough that I can leave them in the grounds?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
They last year?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I dig them just to be sure. You know,
if you had a cold spell that came through and
everything froze, you're going to lose the values as well.
So I don't I don't think i'd take the risk.
I dig them and store them away and bring them
back out in the spring. Do you pot them up earlier?
You just put them back in the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh, I'll put them back in the ground because.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Some people will take them out, start them early in
containers so they get a little bit of a start
to them, and then playing them in the ground or
some just wait till the warms up and get them
in the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Then now that I wait till it warms up, them
in the ground. I was thinking today that would be
something as a post victory celebration, dig my valuable to.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Work off some frustration. Yeah, and anxiety. I hear the
birds in the background. It must be nice weather.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, I'm out. Well, I always walk the dog. This time,
we're going to sixty nine degrees today, are you really
Jesus PiZZ Yeah, and I've got I got sixty people
coming to my house for Christmas party.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Nights tonight tonight. I thought it was tomorrow night. I
must have got the wrong invitation.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh, you're a funny guy. You know ten thousand comedians
out of work. They're trying to be funny.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Send me send the text to Buggy Joe that I
was on and just let him know we're coming.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh yeah, I know he's not listing, but I will
send him a text and let him know that you're
trying to work your way to that final game.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yes, sir, tell him come to Pasadena January first.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'll buy him a beer, seriously, just one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Ye, Yes, sir, I'm trying to find a way to
get out there.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, just one though.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
All right, hey, listen, I hope you enjoy your chease
and you wine.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I will thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I hope you're not whining about an Ohio state waft
and say here I am. Now, I'm trying to be listening.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Listens trying to Yeah, listener is trying to be funny. Now, hey,
have a merry Christmas. Hey, there you go. Now are
your crowsy with you? Have a merry Christmas. We'll talk
to you in this maybe next week or than a
couple of weeks. All right, take care. Harold from Alabama.
And they were all over the board last and every
time I woke up, the score was one way or
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the other. Is crazy enough to give you a heart attack.
All right, We're going to take a quick break and
we'll come back. We'll do a little home improvement from
the man that met the legend, mister Gary selwll. Now
you know tomorrow night is the winter solstice, and it's
the longest night of the year, and there is a
there's a yoga meditation group in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is
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called the House of the House of m and their
website is House of arm dot com, and I get
their information. It's pretty interesting classes I think I'm gonna
try some over the winter time. But anyway, they put
am an interesting roads little thing that I took from
their website, House of LM dot com. It's called Measures
of Rest, and it says, as the days grow shorter
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and the light softens, we enter the sacred pause before
the sun begins its return winter solstice. The longest night
reminds us and I love this reminds us that rest
is its own form of growth, that seeds sprout in darkness,
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Don't
forget our website. It's Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Some of the
links were working on my screen, but they were working
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The recipes and all they'll come up and eventually you'll
find all that and don't forget if you look at
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postings that we've had on there for you as well.
All Right, it's time for the man, the Man, the legend.
He is, Ladies and gentlemen, the most listen to all
the improvement show host in the entire Solar system. His
website Garysullivan online dot com. His name you ready, Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Wilson. How are you?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I'm just great. I bought myself a snowblower this week.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right. It's supposed to be snowy in January and February.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So yeah, I mean I couldn't get it because they
were all out. Decided to order it and got it
shipped to me.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So now I'm waiting for that first good little snow
so I can get my battery operated eight eighteen inch. Okay,
it's got a headlights on it. It's got the little
thrower where you can turn it sideways of this you
know whatever it comes in handy. Yeah, and it's a
metal not plastic blade.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh so is this a two stage?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well yes it is.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Ooh you're playing on big snow not really?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
What if you're going to I mean if you if
you compare the cost to that compared to some of
the hand that the smaller handheld.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Ones, well, I'm not a big fan of this. I mean,
the handheld ones are great if you're going to do
your stoop right right, but if you're gonna do your drive.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
With their costs and you know, I'm doing a driveway
and a sidewalk. Yeah, and it's at my mom's and
I can use in other places now as well. And
it's not that heavy. It's easy to put in the
truck and take it around. So I mean, I can't
wait to fire that bad boy out.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You'll love it. I told you mine was twenty six
years old. Yeah, or is twenty six years old. And
last week we had about five inches on Saturday. Yeah,
and we you know, did the show Saturday, watch the
snow Sunday morning and it quit. But I was doing
the show. At twelve fifteen, I went.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Out, little crew showed up. No, they didn't make.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It this time, but you know, and there's that turnaround
up there and the long sidewalk in front of the
house and then up to the thirty minutes, wow, thirty minutes,
and I went this is you know, some years we
never get to use it. Yeah, but man, when you
need one, there's nothing better. You know.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know what's gonna happen. Now, don't oh, don't say that.
What You're gonna look out the window and I'll be
out there throwing. Oh okay, you'll be trying mine out
work anymore, waving, waving using my new blower.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
It is kind of like I'm gonna warn you. It's
kind of like a pressure washer. If it's warm enough
out there and you're comfortable and dressed properly, you don't
want to stop.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Give me another driveway, give me another one, give me
another sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Oh, they're out of town. I'll go do theirs.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well, I prepped in everything for this last one. I
did the didn't you saw, but I used the the icer,
added all down and everything, and it is amazing how
that really did help out.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, but I was. I was amazing. Five
five and a half inches and shoot it it was
a you know, it wasn't a real wet, heavy snow,
but that thing knocked it out with its proper guidance
by me, of course, of.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Course, and like halfash, you were professional handling that.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
But then I got you know what I got when
I got inside.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
What are you ready, Kerri? Are you sure you're done?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Are you done? Or ready? Yeah? So that was fast.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I was old for another forty five minutes of.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
She sounds a little sad that all yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Quietness that you would be outside?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yes, sir, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I do have a question for you. You do if if
you're looking at decking or wood outside right now that's
already has some awe starting to grow on it? Uh
we and forget doesn't work in the colder temperatures. Correct, incorrect,
They do work at colder temperatures. Would you still spray
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on a wedd and forget this late in the season
or would you use a just a quick clean?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, it's up to you either want to work.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
The one thing I'd be a little bit concerned about
on decking right now is spraying that on and yet
moss gets slippery, right, yes, so it's still going to
sit there for six six weeks right, so that's almost
like February, right, so or past February, I mean, and
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so I don't know. I'd probably throw some oxygen they
bleach on there, and yeah, scrub it and rinse it,
you know, we're going to be about fifty to day
and day after Christmas is going to be sixty.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
One day of Christmas, I think it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Let's take a big long hike.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Okay, why don't you walk over to my house? Isn't
they we'll scrub that deck down. Yeah? No, a couple
spots it has that it stays slick all winter. Yeah,
and I do use wedd and forget, but that just
seems that it's.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
A bigger area. Ron That's a different story. But you know,
I mean, you know where you got that landing and
going out the door, right man? You know thirty second
Clean or something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know I have a landing going out the door. Huh?
How do you know I have that?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I'm always over there helping you.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
My dirty my dirty bathtub and smelly air I needed.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
You really need to get that washing dryer out of
your backyard.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Though, I'm gonna plant them up next year.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Oh really? Oh yeah, you think they'll have little.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Trend instead of you know, the tractor tires and things
like that. I'm gonna use a washing dryer.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I gotta ask you, do you get your truck with
Santa yet? Don't disappoint me.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I'm going to disappoint you. Oh, Ron, I have not Ron.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I think I've been to the grocery store once in
the last ten days.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
My gosh, I go more once a day. Do I
swear we've been organized? We're a disorganized bess. Come back
from the grocery store, all, did you get so and
so so? No, I asked you. If you need it,
I'll run up.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, let me go get that.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Thank goodness, is only about two miles away.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Did I forget the milk? I'll go. I'll be back
in a little while.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm on a first name basis with everybody. Oh yeah,
they see me every day.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Do you go to the friends?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Say, here comes Gary again?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Go to the friendly Kroger by us?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I do?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Are you watching the new Kroger behind it?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I am.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Isn't that amazing? You don't tear everything down in front
of it?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, so you can park that's gonna look different.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I was watching that. I kept thinking, why are they
building that there like that? Uh huh? And then all
of a sudden I realize those businesses were moving out
of there.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
So I put it in a park in lot.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, tarry down and put it in a parking lot.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Somebody have a song about that, Yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Are you going to get chocolate Santa's?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I just need to know, yes you are. Yes, I
have the I told you I have the buffalo trace.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
See I'm the opposite. I got the Santas, so you
got the filling I got.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I got the cream sitting on the counter to remind
right by the keys to mind me, I'd go to
the store to get the chocolate Santas.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You gotta have a Sully on and or two or three? Well, yeah,
whatever it depends. It depends whether you need it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But I purposely set it right there so I would
see it when I grab my keys, and I still.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Haven't got Well, I got the Santos, but I don't
have the cream. So you know, but we got plenty
of days, plenty of days.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Five days start your shopping yet five days I'm done.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You're done? Weren't you always kind of the Christmas Eve guy?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Uh? I always well, my dad was. My dad literally
would go out on Christmas Eve. Yeah, hit the mall
and always do a great job. You always have found
great presence. That was his thing. Christmas Eve man. He
was in the mall. So yeah, I like that plan. Yeah,
I might live that. This year, we've gone to the
Secret Santa thing for the adults, so that we all
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get one person right, and you fill out the list right,
and then you can just go another this click and
order and ship.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah yeah, that's easy, easy.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I like. All I have to do is wrap.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I like the meander together. Hear, the busier the better.
But I don't get in a way of real Christmas gift.
That's Susan. You do not want to get You want
to stay in your lane there, Yeah, yeah, I don't
say anything.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
We got all the grandsons, and also we have the
lists you know for each one. Oh you know you
gotta do all that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Don't you feel like a fulfillment center?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Yeah too, Yeah, but I do stay in my lane.
I do comment.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Just tell me what you need me to do.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I will take care of it, I know.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And that list keeps getting longer, especially this time of year.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yes it does. I don't know. By the way, you
might want to buy this. I bought myself a Snoop
Dogg's cook cookbook.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
No oh, yeah, what what? What's what's in it?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
If you look at his recipe. I know, yeah, from
the hood, so he grew up with Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Is it's very entertaining. I like Snoop Dogg trying to
learn to do the crib.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Apparently a lot of people do, because he's everywhere right.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Now, is I think he's a hoot.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, so I heard he's going to do a home
improvement show.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I think he's kind of like you. I'd like to
hang out with him.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Sometimes when I come over with my oxygenated bleach for
your landing.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I need I need a little scrub, those little scrub
broom things too, right.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, but you don't need much really, you mix that up,
put it on there, let's sit, you know, let's sit
for about ten fifteen minutes, and then you know a
street broom or scrubbush and just kind of agitated a
little bit, and you're good at agitating, and then just
hose it off.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Now he's been talking to me, talking to my wife.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
You've heard that before. Wow, Well I'll take it back.
You're not agitating.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, you're good nature, like the center of our washing machine. Yeah,
I'm an agitator.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You're an agitator, you've been good boy for Christmas, You're
ex back to They.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Try to mellow out for a couple of weeks beforehand,
So so home and prove. What are we gonna be
talking about this week? Are we talking about gifts?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You know what? I'd love this that if I start
telling everybody all the things they should be doing and
starting for the new year, they get mad at me.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Well they would just laugh. I would just laugh at you. Well,
that's what I'm five days away from Christmas. I ain't doing, notning.
That's what I'm gonna do. We're gonna be planning for
next year. We're gonna talk about metal roofing. We're gonna
talk about cleaning. I'm gonna keep everybody busy thinking yeah,
and writing.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah because there's nothing going on this time.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Of year, and making notes.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
So yeah, we're gonna talk seriously, We're gonna talk just
a lot about.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's good things.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
We always talk about.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You go to just like stop in hardware stories randomly
and just through I do and look at the shelves.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Even when we travel, I'm always I'm always walking you.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
While you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
No, but sometimes I get pretty excited do you. Yeah, yeah,
I kind of skipped to my car if I find
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Uh, Gary Sullivan, have a great show. Have a merry Christmas, sir.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Merry Christmas to you. Ron.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Thanks, take care all right, thank you so much. All right,
Thanks all our colors, our sponsors, our special guests, of
course our producer Danny Gleeson, because without Danny Gleeson, none
of the stuff would happens. So Danny Gleeson, have a
great merry Christmas with you and your family, and thank
you for all that you do. Now do yourself a favor,
just like Gary was saying. Start thinking about where you're
gonna plant a tree or two or three next year.
And there's native plants and those b pollinator plants, and
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how you're gonna pamper your worms, and how a you're
gonna get the kids involved with gardening and by all
means making its best weekend and the best Christmas of
your life.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
See you, how is your garden growing? Call Ron now
at one eight hundred and eighty two three. Talk you
are listening to in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Our total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personally yard boy talking about yarding. The season is winding
down and I got a couple uh you know, if
you're looking, you got a little extra change or extra money,
you're looking to maybe help out of great organization, especially
when it has to do with kids. I've got some
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suggestions for you. And this is one of my favorites.
As a matter of fact, this particular one started with
a nine year old girl and a forty pound cabbage
that she grew in the third grade. It was the
Bonnie Plant Cabbage program. And since then, and we spoke
with this young lady when she was nine years old,
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all right, since then, that whole thing has grown into
a national youth a national youth based nonprofit with the
mission to empower kids across the country to grow better
tomorrow for the neighbors facing hunger and food insecurity. And
what she has done since that, that nine year old
to what she is doing today is absolutely phenomenal. If
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you want to see go look Katie's crops. So those
are with ks dot com. That's katieescrops dot com and
Katie is with us this morning. Katie Stagliano, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Are you always so cheer You were cheer You were
that cheerful when you were nine years old at seven o'clock,
eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm just excited to be here, excited to talk to you.
And I was thinking back, and I cannot believe how
many years it's been that we've been friends, and I've
been on the program I know, and I look at
that picture you with that when with your cabbage, and
I just laugh.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I say, man, I've known her that long. Unbelievable. I
want to tell you something, and I'll tell you this
every time. What you continue to do with Katie's Crops
is absolutely phenomenal. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I am so appreciative. And it's truly because of people
like you that support our work, share the stories of
our amazing young growers and what we're doing to and
hunger that we're able to keep going and able to
keep supporting our neighbors and need across the country.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Now, even though Katie's Crops is based in South Carolina,
you obviously you're you are working across all the states,
across the country, trying to get Katie's crops and gardens
in all these states and get more kids involved, not
only in gardening, but growing this extra food to help
feed those that need that. I mean, it's just to
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take it from your small town to where it is
today is crazy. And of course your I know your
mom's been heavily involved from the very beginning, lots of
great volunteers and just it's crazy where you've gone. So
tell folks, look, let's just look at it today. What
is Katie's Crops doing today?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So today we have lots of exciting things going on,
but really, to put it into perspective, I started with
a tiny cabbage seedling in the third grade, and now
seventeen years later, we have youth run vegetable gardens growing
across the United States, and our amazing young growers have
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grown and donated over nine hundred thousand pounds of fresh
produce to their neighbors, fighting hunger and food insecurity, which
is insane to think about, and I'm so incredibly proud
of them. And in addition to the produce that is
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donated in South Carolina, we do garden to table dinners
for our neighbors in need in the community and we've
been doing those for fifteen years and we have served
over one hundred and thirty thousand meals. They're all hot, healthy,
fresh and free and based off of the produce grown
in the garden. And we have engaged and welcomed over
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nineteen thousand youths to join our fight against hunger, to
get involved, to start a garden, to volunteer, and to
show them that it doesn't matter how young or how
old you are, you can make an impact in your
community and in the world. So we are just so
incredibly proud of everyone involved in Katie's Crops. All of
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these youths. They're starting vegetable gardens in their backyards, at
their school, in their libraries, community centers, and they are
making a tremendous impact. And we really saw this especially
during the government shutdown, when there were so many people
who were truly struggling. They either were out of work
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because they had a government job, or were in the military,
or they weren't receiving the snap benefits that they were
relying on. And we just thought unprecedented numbers and we
were so blessed because of the support of amazing people
to be able to support our military families by bringing
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fresh produce and groceries to them. We did grocery giveaways.
Our Katie's Crop centners saw incredible numbers and our growers
from across the country were really able to help fill
the void and the need. And I think you never
know what can happen, and so it's so important to
be ready to be able to step in and support
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your community when things like this happen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No doubt about it. Talk with Katie Stagniano, of course,
it's Katiescrops dot com K for katisankfocrops dot com to
learn more about what they're doing and to get involved
if you'd like to get involved. I'm assuming you've done
all your gardens for all the states. Ready to go
for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ready to go for twenty twenty six, and we are
so excited. We're really working on revamping our grower program too,
to make it even better. We're still learning and growing
seventeen years later, and so we're working to make this
program even better for twenty twenty seven. So very excited
(06:50):
for that as well. But we have some truly incredible growers.
We have a grower at West Carlton High School in
Ohio and have been incredible. They have been growing with
us for almost ten years now and they grow hydroponically.
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They also have an incredible garden. They're at the school
and they make such a big impact. So it's so
cool to see these growers that continue to grow year
after year and are sustainably a part of the solution
to un hunger.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm just curious. Does anybody ever show up and say,
are you Katie Stagniano. I'm so and so, and you
gave us a garden several years ago. You ever meet
anybody like that?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, we actually have one of our growers in South Carolina,
nor in Eva. Their aunt was a Katie's Crops grower,
and I got to meet all of them together, which
is so fun because I don't always get to meet
the growers and I was like, oh my goodness, Like
it's so crazy to think that several years ago she
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was a grower and now her nieces are growers. And
a lot of times too, like for our Katie's Croft
Center guests and people we serve, they think my last
name is Crops. A lot of times people would be like, oh,
are you miss Cross.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Are you miss Crops?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It happens all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I love a Katie Crop. I like Katie. Yeah, I
like that. Well it's Katie.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm like, do I need to change my last name?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well maybe you should, or maybe you put that in
the middle Katie Crops Stagliano.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
It has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It has a nice ring to it. Yeah, the whole
thing I think would sound great, you know, and I'm
sure that you and of course you probably get the
thank you letters and all of the above as well,
but uh, you know, it's like a professor or a teacher,
you know, all those uh the students that they taught
many years ago. You know, you wind up seeing them
somewhere down the road, and it's like, you know, man,
I appreciate everything. I'm sure as you continue to go
that this is going to happen to you as you
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go around the country. By the way, you I remember
one time we had you on and you won, And
I always like to bring this up because it's a
really cool. You've won about every award you could ever imagine,
but you had an award from I think it was
President Clinton at the time.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Correct, Yes it was.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And what was that award?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was honored to be the youngest recipient of the
Clinton Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Civil society. So
I received that award when I was fourteen, and it
was just such an incredible honor. And talk about being
in the room with such incredible people. There were kings
(09:40):
and queens and dignitaries and world leaders in the room,
and it was truly just the most amazing and surreal experience.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And who gave you the award?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Matt Damon gave me the award.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And you'll never tell us what you whispered to Matt
Damien when he gave you the award.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Private, I understand the opportunity to have a secret of that, Damon.
I got to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You got it, I get it, I get it totally.
One talking with Katie Staggler, I started to call you
Katie crop.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I don't do what happens all.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The time, Katie Stagliono. She is from katiscrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out, all right, So we're talking.
We're looking for money today. We're looking for folks that
are looking to donate and to help get kids more
and kids involved with guarding and help feed the hungry
as well. So what can we do to donate? What
are the options we have to donate to Katie's Crops.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So if you go to our website Katiescrops dot com,
Katie's a K and Crops with a K, you can
see our donation page where a monetary donation would be
such a blessing. If your business organization has a grant
that you think we would be a good fit for,
or if you know that funding that you think we
should apply for, please let us know. We greatly appreciate that.
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We're also looking for sponsors for gardening tools, gardening beds,
anything that in kind donations that we can use to
support our growers and our efforts. And additionally, we have
an Amazon wish list on our website as well if
you want to purchase something that will go directly to us.
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All of these things make a tremendous impact. It doesn't
matter how larger how small a donation is. You are
helping to ensure that a family does not go without
and has access to fresh produce and a hot, healthy,
free meal. And we are just so incredibly grateful for
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your support. And are always striving to be the best
stewards of all of our donations and ensure that they
go directly back to the use growers, to communities across
the country to help us grow healthy and to hunger
vegetable garden at a time.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And that's it's Katie's Crops vegetable garden. And her name
isn't Katie Crop, but it should be katiescrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out. I got you. If
you want a donation, you know it's going to really
work and then your money's going to be well spent.
This is another one to take a look at because
she just does such a great job. We've known her
for so many years and it's just go look at
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what she's doing. Katieescrops dot org or com. Now I
understand you've gone back to school, take a few extra classes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, I actually just finished up my school yesterday. So
I was honored to be selected for a fellowship with
Google and the Watson Institute. I was a Google Data
Center Community AI Fellow and it was a truly experience.
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I got to learn from so many amazing people and
really focus on how to utilize technology to really streamline
our efforts and our work so that I can spend
more time doing my favorite things and the fun things
being out in the garden, being out in the community
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and engaging with others and really making an impact, and
kind of spend less time sitting behind the computer and
doing administrative work and things like that. So it was
a really incredible experience. And I'm actually very excited because
out of all the fellows in my program, several of
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us were selected to share at the Google Data Center
Community AI Fellowship Summit in January on the sixteenth, and
I was one of the ones selected.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Actually, I wouldn't expect anything less from you, Katie.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's an amazing, amazing experience. I had so much fun,
and I feel so honored to have gone through the
program and learned from such wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You can call her Katie Crop. You can call her
Katie Stagleano. Either way it works, but go to her
website Katie's Crops. Those are with ks dot com and
donate today. Katie, have a great holiday season. Merry Christmas
to you, thanks for spending time with us. We'll talk
to you in the future.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Merry Christmas, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Take care, Katie stag Leano katieescrops dot com. Quick break
we come back phone lines rope for you at eight
hundred A two three eight two five five. Here in
the garden with Ron Wilson help so.
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
Fucking yarding at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Get the kids involved with gardening. That's all
I can say. And you look at to donate. That's
a couple of good ways right there, listening to our
show for you to help get kids involved with gardening,
and then take it upon yourself to get kids involved
with gardening. I just you know, I read more and
more research about it. You know, you read kids comments
(17:28):
like I was reading earlier from a kids guarding dot org.
You know, but you know it's a fun way to garden,
fun like fun like fun, dirty fun, playing in the
dirt and you know the whole nine yards. And research
is showing too that, you know, when kids get involved
with gardening, growing food, whatever it may be, at a
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younger age, even though going through college, they may get
away from that for a while, getting it started in
their professional life early on, but then it comes back around,
and I think looking at today youth, if they've done that,
a lot of them are keeping it going through the
college as well, with indoor gardening, hydroponic gardening, container gardening,
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and affords all of us the opportunity to do some
type of gardening and continue on doing that even through
your college and early professional years, and then finally get
that home or whatever it may be, and then they
you know, start building the condo, the container gardening, raise
beds and doing things like that and getting more and
more involved all the time and growing your own fresh fruit.
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And I'm telling you, you know, been in this business
a long time, oh pretty much all my life since
high school. And you talk to folks sometimes about you know,
growing and the tomatoes and peppers. You know, everybody just
pretty much experienced that. But just like going to that
produce market a couple of weeks ago and then you know,
they had some fresh cares that they just pulled out
of the ground that morning from a hoop house. They
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had a hoop over the top growing and they let
grow in this kind of weather with no problem whatsoever
about the size of your I don't know, they were
about four inches long, five inches long and cleaned off.
But just to take that thing and put in your
mouth and chew. It's just the crispness and the flavor.
It's totally, so totally different than what you get. And
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and the do do a good job in our produce
to markets departments in our grocery stores. I get it,
but there's processing and shipping and all that involved, and
you lose some of the flavors. Sometimes it's just happens.
But you know, when you eat it fresh like this,
you realize how different it is. And so you know
that hughes start to think a little bit more about
growing your own and there are so many different ways
(19:34):
to do that, whether it container, hydroponically, raised, beds in
the ground, whatever it may be. And you can extend
your season early on and later in the season with covering.
It's just so many things you can do. So keep
that in mind, keep yourself involved with gardening, get the
kids and grandkids involved with gardening. It's good for your health,
it's good for your mind, it's good for you, and
it tastes good too. Eight hundred and eight two three
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Speaker 5 (20:08):
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Speaker 1 (21:45):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
at toe Free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. All right, so well, we got five
days left shopping days before Christmas. And if you're sitting
there right now thinking, man, I still need a couple
more gifts for so and so, or a couple of
guests for that, it will last on for something. I
just want to throw my hat in the ring. What
had is that? Gifts for the garden or the gardener?
(22:07):
And I'm telling you there are so many great things
out there today that can be fun, you know, indoor
hydropontic kits, indoor gardening stands, and of course gardening tools.
Sol a knife and a pruner. I'm still telling you
that's a great gift. I don't know if you could
get it shipped in time if you order from a catalog,
be really close. But a sol, a knife and a
(22:29):
really nice pair of bypass pruners outstanding gift right there
for you. Bionic gardening gloves. You have to go on
their website. And again, I don't know if it could
be shipped in time. Great gardening gift, and I'll tell
you another one. You want to get kids involved with gardening,
get them a chia pet. You may laugh and remember
those things forever. They got some really cool characters. But
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the thing about chia remember chia seeds. Although the seeds
you use for your chia pet that you get with
the kid are not edible, but they do. You do
eat chia's seed, and you do eat the greens. These
are not labeled for human consumption, but you can buy
them labeled for human consumption and then use them on
your chiapet and then you're able to eat the greens
from the chia pet. That's pretty cool and it looks good.
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All the different characters that they have. That's a great
gift for kids. I'm telling give me one. I like
growing the chia pets. So you know, there are so
many great things that you can find at your locally
owned independent garden centers. Head out there today. See what
they've got available for you out there. And if you're
still not sure what to get, get them a gift card,
a gift card from your local nursery, your local greenhouse,
(23:36):
your local independent garden center. Next spring when spring rolls
around and everybody's chomping at the bit to get out
there and do a little spring gardening. Well, they've got
that gift certificate from you that they can get out
and buy what they are looking to buy as well.
But I'm telling you, whether it's a regular gift or
you're looking for a last minute gift or whatever, gifts
for the garden, gifts for the gardener are absolutely outstanding.
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Out to your local independent garden centers and check it
all out. To a ICU unit in a hospital somewhere
in Alabama, let's talk to Harold. Harold, good morning.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I'll tell your all time and my frad that first quarter.
Last night, I was getting ready to go check myself
into the hospital.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, here's the deal. I turned on I turned
on the game to watch the game. I dozed off.
I admit I fell asleep. I wake up and at
seventeen and I seventeen and nothing, and I'm going, what
poor Harold. And then I go to sleep. I wake
up at seventeen seventeen, and then I had to go
to bed because I have to get early for the show.
(24:40):
And then I got this morning and see the final
score and it's like, you gotta be kidding, Harold. I's
got to be an ICU unit this morning.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I just it was faced and famine. I mean the
first quarter they just dominated this and I don't know
what happened, but man, we kicked it in and we
just took off. Where had the passing?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You think? So right, that's right, we.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Will play and the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
That's right there you go, and remember what I said,
roll tied for two games.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, I saw yeah, my Dallas. Yes, Do I need
to dig those? Are you? Am I my winners cool
or smild enough that I can leave them in the grounds?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
They last year?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I dig them just to be sure. You know,
if you had a cold spell that came through and
everything froze, you're going to lose the values as well.
So I don't I don't think i'd take the risk.
I dig them and store them away and bring them
back out in the spring. Do you pot them up earlier?
You just put them back in the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh, I'll put them back in the ground because.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Some people will take them out, start them early in
containers so they get a little bit of a start
to them, and then playing them in the ground or
some just wait till the warms up and get them
in the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Then now that I wait till it warms up, them
in the ground. I was thinking today that would be
something as a post victory celebration, dig my valuable to.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Work off some frustration. Yeah, and anxiety. I hear the
birds in the background. It must be nice weather.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, I'm out. Well, I always walk the dog. This time,
we're going to sixty nine degrees today, are you really
Jesus PiZZ Yeah, and I've got I got sixty people
coming to my house for Christmas party.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Nights tonight tonight. I thought it was tomorrow night. I
must have got the wrong invitation.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh, you're a funny guy. You know ten thousand comedians
out of work. They're trying to be funny.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Send me send the text to Buggy Joe that I
was on and just let him know we're coming.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh yeah, I know he's not listing, but I will
send him a text and let him know that you're
trying to work your way to that final game.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yes, sir, tell him come to Pasadena January first.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'll buy him a beer, seriously, just one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Ye, Yes, sir, I'm trying to find a way to
get out there.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, just one though.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
All right, hey, listen, I hope you enjoy your chease
and you wine.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I will thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I hope you're not whining about an Ohio state waft
and say here I am. Now, I'm trying to be listening.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Listens trying to Yeah, listener is trying to be funny. Now, hey,
have a merry Christmas. Hey, there you go. Now are
your crowsy with you? Have a merry Christmas. We'll talk
to you in this maybe next week or than a
couple of weeks. All right, take care. Harold from Alabama.
And they were all over the board last and every
time I woke up, the score was one way or
(27:37):
the other. Is crazy enough to give you a heart attack.
All right, We're going to take a quick break and
we'll come back. We'll do a little home improvement from
the man that met the legend, mister Gary selwll. Now
you know tomorrow night is the winter solstice, and it's
the longest night of the year, and there is a
there's a yoga meditation group in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is
(27:59):
called the House of the House of m and their
website is House of arm dot com, and I get
their information. It's pretty interesting classes I think I'm gonna
try some over the winter time. But anyway, they put
am an interesting roads little thing that I took from
their website, House of LM dot com. It's called Measures
of Rest, and it says, as the days grow shorter
(28:21):
and the light softens, we enter the sacred pause before
the sun begins its return winter solstice. The longest night
reminds us and I love this reminds us that rest
is its own form of growth, that seeds sprout in darkness,
(28:42):
and that pausing is progress. House of omaum dot com.
Coming up next to mister Gary Sullivan here in the
garden with Ron.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Don't
forget our website. It's Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Some of the
links were working on my screen, but they were working
on dans, So if they weren't, just stick with it.
The recipes and all they'll come up and eventually you'll
find all that and don't forget if you look at
the bottom that you can scroll back to a past
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postings that we've had on there for you as well.
All Right, it's time for the man, the Man, the legend.
He is, Ladies and gentlemen, the most listen to all
the improvement show host in the entire Solar system. His
website Garysullivan online dot com. His name you ready, Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Wilson. How are you?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I'm just great. I bought myself a snowblower this week.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right. It's supposed to be snowy in January and February.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So yeah, I mean I couldn't get it because they
were all out. Decided to order it and got it
shipped to me.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So now I'm waiting for that first good little snow
so I can get my battery operated eight eighteen inch. Okay,
it's got a headlights on it. It's got the little
thrower where you can turn it sideways of this you
know whatever it comes in handy. Yeah, and it's a
metal not plastic blade.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh so is this a two stage?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well yes it is.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Ooh you're playing on big snow not really?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
What if you're going to I mean if you if
you compare the cost to that compared to some of
the hand that the smaller handheld.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Ones, well, I'm not a big fan of this. I mean,
the handheld ones are great if you're going to do
your stoop right right, but if you're gonna do your drive.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
With their costs and you know, I'm doing a driveway
and a sidewalk. Yeah, and it's at my mom's and
I can use in other places now as well. And
it's not that heavy. It's easy to put in the
truck and take it around. So I mean, I can't
wait to fire that bad boy out.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You'll love it. I told you mine was twenty six
years old. Yeah, or is twenty six years old. And
last week we had about five inches on Saturday. Yeah,
and we you know, did the show Saturday, watch the
snow Sunday morning and it quit. But I was doing
the show. At twelve fifteen, I went.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Out, little crew showed up. No, they didn't make.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It this time, but you know, and there's that turnaround
up there and the long sidewalk in front of the
house and then up to the thirty minutes, wow, thirty minutes,
and I went this is you know, some years we
never get to use it. Yeah, but man, when you
need one, there's nothing better. You know.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know what's gonna happen. Now, don't oh, don't say that.
What You're gonna look out the window and I'll be
out there throwing. Oh okay, you'll be trying mine out
work anymore, waving, waving using my new blower.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
It is kind of like I'm gonna warn you. It's
kind of like a pressure washer. If it's warm enough
out there and you're comfortable and dressed properly, you don't
want to stop.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Give me another driveway, give me another one, give me
another sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Oh, they're out of town. I'll go do theirs.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well, I prepped in everything for this last one. I
did the didn't you saw, but I used the the icer,
added all down and everything, and it is amazing how
that really did help out.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, but I was. I was amazing. Five
five and a half inches and shoot it it was
a you know, it wasn't a real wet, heavy snow,
but that thing knocked it out with its proper guidance
by me, of course, of.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Course, and like halfash, you were professional handling that.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
But then I got you know what I got when
I got inside.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
What are you ready, Kerri? Are you sure you're done?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Are you done? Or ready? Yeah? So that was fast.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I was old for another forty five minutes of.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
She sounds a little sad that all yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Quietness that you would be outside?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yes, sir, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I do have a question for you. You do if if
you're looking at decking or wood outside right now that's
already has some awe starting to grow on it? Uh
we and forget doesn't work in the colder temperatures. Correct, incorrect,
They do work at colder temperatures. Would you still spray
(35:04):
on a wedd and forget this late in the season
or would you use a just a quick clean?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, it's up to you either want to work.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
The one thing I'd be a little bit concerned about
on decking right now is spraying that on and yet
moss gets slippery, right, yes, so it's still going to
sit there for six six weeks right, so that's almost
like February, right, so or past February, I mean, and
(35:33):
so I don't know. I'd probably throw some oxygen they
bleach on there, and yeah, scrub it and rinse it,
you know, we're going to be about fifty to day
and day after Christmas is going to be sixty.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
One day of Christmas, I think it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Let's take a big long hike.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Okay, why don't you walk over to my house? Isn't
they we'll scrub that deck down. Yeah? No, a couple
spots it has that it stays slick all winter. Yeah,
and I do use wedd and forget, but that just
seems that it's.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
A bigger area. Ron That's a different story. But you know,
I mean, you know where you got that landing and
going out the door, right man? You know thirty second
Clean or something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know I have a landing going out the door. Huh?
How do you know I have that?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I'm always over there helping you.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
My dirty my dirty bathtub and smelly air I needed.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
You really need to get that washing dryer out of
your backyard.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Though, I'm gonna plant them up next year.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Oh really? Oh yeah, you think they'll have little.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Trend instead of you know, the tractor tires and things
like that. I'm gonna use a washing dryer.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I gotta ask you, do you get your truck with
Santa yet? Don't disappoint me.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I'm going to disappoint you. Oh, Ron, I have not Ron.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I think I've been to the grocery store once in
the last ten days.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
My gosh, I go more once a day. Do I
swear we've been organized? We're a disorganized bess. Come back
from the grocery store, all, did you get so and
so so? No, I asked you. If you need it,
I'll run up.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, let me go get that.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Thank goodness, is only about two miles away.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Did I forget the milk? I'll go. I'll be back
in a little while.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm on a first name basis with everybody. Oh yeah,
they see me every day.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Do you go to the friends?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Say, here comes Gary again?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Go to the friendly Kroger by us?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I do?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Are you watching the new Kroger behind it?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I am.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Isn't that amazing? You don't tear everything down in front
of it?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, so you can park that's gonna look different.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I was watching that. I kept thinking, why are they
building that there like that? Uh huh? And then all
of a sudden I realize those businesses were moving out
of there.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
So I put it in a park in lot.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, tarry down and put it in a parking lot.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Somebody have a song about that, Yeah they did.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Are you going to get chocolate Santa's?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I just need to know, yes you are. Yes, I
have the I told you I have the buffalo trace.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
See I'm the opposite. I got the Santas, so you
got the filling I got.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I got the cream sitting on the counter to remind
right by the keys to mind me, I'd go to
the store to get the chocolate Santas.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You gotta have a Sully on and or two or three? Well, yeah,
whatever it depends. It depends whether you need it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But I purposely set it right there so I would
see it when I grab my keys, and I still.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Haven't got Well, I got the Santos, but I don't
have the cream. So you know, but we got plenty
of days, plenty of days.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Five days start your shopping yet five days I'm done.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You're done? Weren't you always kind of the Christmas Eve guy?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Uh? I always well, my dad was. My dad literally
would go out on Christmas Eve. Yeah, hit the mall
and always do a great job. You always have found
great presence. That was his thing. Christmas Eve man. He
was in the mall. So yeah, I like that plan. Yeah,
I might live that. This year, we've gone to the
Secret Santa thing for the adults, so that we all
(38:52):
get one person right, and you fill out the list right,
and then you can just go another this click and
order and ship.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah yeah, that's easy, easy.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I like. All I have to do is wrap.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I like the meander together. Hear, the busier the better.
But I don't get in a way of real Christmas gift.
That's Susan. You do not want to get You want
to stay in your lane there, Yeah, yeah, I don't
say anything.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
We got all the grandsons, and also we have the
lists you know for each one. Oh you know you
gotta do all that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Don't you feel like a fulfillment center?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Yeah too, Yeah, but I do stay in my lane.
I do comment.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Just tell me what you need me to do.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I will take care of it, I know.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And that list keeps getting longer, especially this time of year.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yes it does. I don't know. By the way, you
might want to buy this. I bought myself a Snoop
Dogg's cook cookbook.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
No oh, yeah, what what? What's what's in it?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
If you look at his recipe. I know, yeah, from
the hood, so he grew up with Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Is it's very entertaining. I like Snoop Dogg trying to
learn to do the crib.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Apparently a lot of people do, because he's everywhere right.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Now, is I think he's a hoot.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, so I heard he's going to do a home
improvement show.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I think he's kind of like you. I'd like to
hang out with him.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Sometimes when I come over with my oxygenated bleach for
your landing.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I need I need a little scrub, those little scrub
broom things too, right.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, but you don't need much really, you mix that up,
put it on there, let's sit, you know, let's sit
for about ten fifteen minutes, and then you know a
street broom or scrubbush and just kind of agitated a
little bit, and you're good at agitating, and then just
hose it off.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Now he's been talking to me, talking to my wife.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
You've heard that before. Wow, Well I'll take it back.
You're not agitating.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, you're good nature, like the center of our washing machine. Yeah,
I'm an agitator.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You're an agitator, you've been good boy for Christmas, You're
ex back to They.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Try to mellow out for a couple of weeks beforehand,
So so home and prove. What are we gonna be
talking about this week? Are we talking about gifts?
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You know what? I'd love this that if I start
telling everybody all the things they should be doing and
starting for the new year, they get mad at me.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Well they would just laugh. I would just laugh at you. Well,
that's what I'm five days away from Christmas. I ain't doing, notning.
That's what I'm gonna do. We're gonna be planning for
next year. We're gonna talk about metal roofing. We're gonna
talk about cleaning. I'm gonna keep everybody busy thinking yeah,
and writing.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah because there's nothing going on this time.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Of year, and making notes.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
So yeah, we're gonna talk seriously, We're gonna talk just
a lot about.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's good things.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
We always talk about.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
You go to just like stop in hardware stories randomly
and just through I do and look at the shelves.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Even when we travel, I'm always I'm always walking you.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
While you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
No, but sometimes I get pretty excited do you. Yeah, yeah,
I kind of skipped to my car if I find
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Uh, Gary Sullivan, have a great show. Have a merry Christmas, sir.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Merry Christmas to you. Ron.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Thanks, take care all right, thank you so much. All right,
Thanks all our colors, our sponsors, our special guests, of
course our producer Danny Gleeson, because without Danny Gleeson, none
of the stuff would happens. So Danny Gleeson, have a
great merry Christmas with you and your family, and thank
you for all that you do. Now do yourself a favor,
just like Gary was saying. Start thinking about where you're
gonna plant a tree or two or three next year.
And there's native plants and those b pollinator plants, and
(42:26):
how you're gonna pamper your worms, and how a you're
gonna get the kids involved with gardening and by all
means making its best weekend and the best Christmas of
your life.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
See you, how is your garden growing? Call Ron now
at one eight hundred and eighty two three. Talk you
are listening to in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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