Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a past episode with Inma and Olabanji discussing the many benefits of a food forest and how to grow your own food forest in your backyard
Why not convert your lawn into a food forest?
In this 2-part conversation, Olabanji and Inma talked about the many benefits for the environment, the animals and your finance of getting rid of your lawn and growing a food forest instead.
In the 2nd part, Olabanji and Inma shared some tips and personal experiences of growing a food forest in Nigeria and in Scotland.
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Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria, He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.
Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.
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Transcripts
INMA:
Apparently cutting, the, , the loan is one of the things that I wouldn't think
INMA:
about it, but apparently it gets quite.
INMA:
a lot of carbon in the atmosphere.
OLABANJI:
it does.
OLABANJI:
, I think I read a study that says, okay, if you do the plus and minus of the
OLABANJI:
carbon that goes into maintaining the lawn and the gardens, and then the carbon
OLABANJI:
that it traps, it's not equivalent.
OLABANJI:
Right.
OLABANJI:
It's as good as boring you something.
OLABANJI:
And then I come take it back eventually because you plant.
OLABANJI:
To take the carbon, but then you come with a lawnmower to, to take it out.
OLABANJI:
You have fertilizers and water system and all that stuff that have really huge
OLABANJI:
carbon footprints to maintain the gardens.
OLABANJI:
So it's as good as it's not effective at all.
OLABANJI:
It's not any use.
OLABANJI:
. INMA: And I, we were
OLABANJI:
We were talking the other day about leaf blow that blew my
OLABANJI:
mind because I had no idea.
OLABANJI:
Well, first of all, I had no idea.
OLABANJI:
People use those things.
OLABANJI:
and secondly, uh, together with the, with the long, owners are really,
OLABANJI:
really, \ , taking back whatever \ that is beneficial for, for the atmosphere.
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
OLABANJI:
And so get the food.
OLABANJI:
I mean, if you have a garden, if you have a backyard, you have an
OLABANJI:
environment that allows you to do that.
OLABANJI:
Why not seeds are, they're not so expensive.
OLABANJI:
Get some seeds, start from the shrubs, get some land covers,
OLABANJI:
um, plant some trees, some
INMA:
Yes, definitely.
INMA:
Definitely
OLABANJI:
with the
INMA:
get, get, get, our hands dirty working with the soil.
INMA:
How amazing is.
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
OLABANJI:
That's so cool.
OLABANJI:
I think that's the coolest thing ever.
OLABANJI:
Um, and it's therapeutic.
OLABANJI:
I don't know how, but it is.
OLABANJI:
I mean, you go into nature at its fullest and then you absorb it.
OLABANJI:
That's so good.
INMA:
I think when you have a garden, uh, has to be manicured.
INMA:
It's like you are controlling.
INMA:
It is a way of relationship that is control over, over whatever is growing.
INMA:
When you have a food for on the other hand, you're not controlling, just,
INMA:
just having a relationship with, with whatever is there that wants to grow
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
OLABANJI:
And on the long run, it's actually cheaper.
OLABANJI:
It's cheaper because you don't do maintenance.
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
OLABANJI:
And then you get food and fruits.
OLABANJI:
Why not?
OLABANJI:
Oh my God.
INMA:
Yes.
INMA:
It's
INMA:
it is all pluses.
INMA:
All pluses here.
OLABANJI:
So do it, do it
INMA:
Yeah.
INMA:
Just do it.
INMA:
If you can do it, just do it.
OLABANJI:
yeah.
OLABANJI:
When I was, when I was younger, , my granddad had a really, , like a
OLABANJI:
food forest and we never bought planting bananas anywhere else.
OLABANJI:
Cause we had them in excess.
OLABANJI:
We had them in
OLABANJI:
excess.
OLABANJI:
wow.
OLABANJI:
Yeah.
INMA:
cool.
INMA:
And if you have it in excess, you can give it to the
OLABANJI:
yeah, we give it to people sometimes when it's
OLABANJI:
so much, we even sell them
OLABANJI:
and, and make money from them.
OLABANJI:
And so
INMA:
Well
OLABANJI:
it's cool food forest all
OLABANJI:
the
INMA:
it's so many, yeah.
INMA:
All the way, all
OLABANJI:
all the way
OLABANJI:
all the way.
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