Justin Rohner is a presenter and speaker and owner of Agriscaping!
I didn’t realize you have a restaurant.
Serve a number of restaurants in the Phoenix. About me and who I am which is sort of a serial entrepreneur.
honed my skills to put all my eggs in one
I’m all about improving
what I’m doing fits into one of those categories.
born in Alexandra VA just outside Washington DC, my dad was in the FBI
I remember a forest, living in a forest and went back and visited it was 4 trees thick by a busy road! It was nothing but a couple of trees but I was a kid.
I moved to Arizona when I was young
Being in the garden with my mom little kid
probably about five years old peas
seeing this caterpillar rolling across the
slow motion
tiny thing in the garden I could be with the caterpillar
infatuated by everything about how plants grew and that we could eat this stuff
oddly enough same time of year we’re doing this recording when that
whole scene played itself out. From then on you couldn’t get me back inside.
My mom would yell and I didn’t even hear here because I was just so engrossed in how life worked.
outdoors
continue to expand
first passionate experience to be in the garden and what it tasted like and how something that had grown
I think a lot of my listeners are going to relate to that story about being kids like that and getting lost in the garden maybe even today as an adult!
back then
backyard gardening
there really was only
we had our compost piles
grandpa owned a dairy farm
last in Tempe Az where AZ State U resides
dairy farm in the family
seeing all that stuff work
too normal
Distracted me a lot from making this a profession is it was so normal as a kid it was just the normal thing
belittle to use methods
I watched that side of the family business shift the way of all the. world that twas
In my mind it was cheaper, I wasn’t trying to run a commercial so I didn’t need all that techy stuff
grew stuff the way I knew
Integrating all the things we do not just food
growing production into a landscape!
Easy to maintain
integrating local food into the local economy
foods for fodder for animals and textiles
types of things we’re growing too are different then you would expect!
winter now the temp was below freezing this morning
weird but that’s how deserts work and the high today is going to be 71º
Do plants like that or does it make it harder to grow?
It makes it a little challenging
we know we’re still headed into some freezes
drop by checking out some of their trees.
Their desert gold peach is starting to bloom! I say ought oh?! We might have some freezes
Our break of the year is usually during June and August. That’s when we back off most of our planting and growing
that’s where the major stress
things
There’s a lot of cool things you can grow during that time but relatively speaking that’s when we take a break.
One thing I saw on your site was your edible flower guide and you have a lot of classes.
we have a ton of different classes
integrate that into the food economy
cool technology
blending technology with traditional practices and a lot of design
a lot of artist in me
I can’t help but make things look good
Having restaurant gardens in Scottsdale. the way we got that approved was to
begonias
edible flowers
work them into their salads and even some of their drinks
this time of year
petunias in salads
get to know what types of flowers are edible.
Can I ask you, do they have to be special? I mean can you eat just any petunia?
I would be careful where you get it
industry for flowers
systemic pesticide is one that they will either spray on the plant or put it in any granules uptakes inside the plant
anything tries to eat it the bug
cellular level
infused with the pesticide is not something you want to eat, that will cause digestive challenges
systemic pesticides
great relationships with our nursery
agriscaping hub
will have preferred nursery sourcing grown in a way
system supported where you can trust the sourcing
that kind of agriscaping certified sourcing
We had to create that sourcing ourselves because it didn’t exist in the market place
Do you want to tell people, a lot of my listeners have been growing a long time, but interested selling at market but maybe selling some of their produces
not really a channel
Teaches you all the aspects
outdoor to indoor
all the integrations
microclimates so you can understand how to expand without hoop houses
integrate the beauty no matter what the sun orientation or shade orientation in your property or forest you can grow food
create these little teaching platforms teach our
ACES so they can help families
garden consultant
economically
families become productive
from people have never done it before but are interested in it or people who have been landscape architects for years, enable them to add a new component and expand their offering
professional approach
Agriscaping Contractor Certification
licensed contractors that can implement these designs and build these machines
when designed right is a machine that not only looks amazing but produces revenue for homeowner
Rate on the expense
silver
qualify what kind of productivity
installed the way we do it, and then maintained the way our
agriscaping pros
another certifications
harvestors
business model
there’s also a lot of other ways
How a diy can garden and get paid
I was a hobbyist that grew and attracted enough income to pay for my hobby
more and more people kept asking how I did it and what I did?
It really all started from a hobby that I chose to make a professional hobby
it’s own industry basically is what’s really pulling out of it.
professional hobby side
built it to what it is today
this is a great year to get involved
we developed the hub systems
scalable to be
no matter because of the tech we have brought to it!
One of the upsides is you are not doing this on your own land so that would be a barrier that a lot of people have is not owning their own property. I think it’s also good timing, you’re finally hearing people talking about climate change on the news and millennials are getting older and they seem to be interested.
definitely have a garden 1/4 property
strict HOA driven subdivision
Even in my 1/4 acre I have 72 fruit trees growing in the garden backyard
square
grass the kids grow well in grass, better then in the garden. I have a bad mitten net
useful to the function of my home
trampoline subterranean garden
shade loving edibles a lot of fun loving vegetables
one of my favorite things
Jamaican hibiscus
It grew amazing! It loves the heat! It produces! A wonderful don’t even remember what we call the
roselle
We don’t eat the flower, let it turn into a roselle that is encasing the seed pod and the outer part
petals are sour
almost lemony sour
same thing they make red zinger tea with
hibiscus lemonade, you can make a lemonade about of that without any lemon at all.
roselle petals
that
they grow amazing the restaurants loved them!
They integrated them into a number of different drinks
triple crown type plant
roselle fruit
leaves you can eat
the stalk is a good fiber just as good as jute
You can use for rope, we used the stalks to make our twine that we wrap our veg in at the markets
recycling
Wow awesome! Lots of great information there? Does that grow in other places like Florida, and Texas?
it can grow pretty much anywhere you have a good amount of warmth...