This week's guest is Ross Raddi. Ross Raddi is an expert arborist Youtuber, home gardener, blogger, and tax accountant. Ross is also known as the Fig Boss in the figs community.
To make yourself a good gardener or grower, it's all about observation. If you don't have the observation skills, you never can figure out what went wrong.
You can't turn passion into profit. If you go in with the mindset of profit, you will not succeed. To make anything profitable, patience and passion has to be the underlying theme throughout.
Why are you so passionate about your mission statements? She says it's just trying to grow the best tasting food possible. The most truthful answer is that she just like sharing with other people the things that she likes.
Benoit: Why are figs so special to you? Ben: I've made it a mission of mine to make it easier for people to grow figs in this climate. There's such a diversity of figs, and the greatest part is that no one owns them.
You're extremely knowledgeable and you speak in this depth of knowledge. Does that apply to your research process, whether you're researching for a topic for your YouTube channel or for content? When you have a curiosity calls, curiosity opens a lot more doors.
The best things in life compound and iterate over time. Whether it's in your home, gardening, your YouTube journey, or whatever, 14 different things you do. It's probably one of the best ways to motivate somebody, right?
Are you interested in growing houseplants? What is the #1 most important thing in growing plants and food? Do you believe in "food is medicine?"
This week's guest is Ross Raddi.
Ross Raddi is an expert arborist Youtuber, home gardener, blogger, and tax accountant. Ross is also known as the Fig Boss in the figs community.
Ross has over 38,000 subscribers on Youtube and more than 7.6 million views on his channel for his expert insight on growing plants and food.
Ross’s mission statement as shown on his website states, “To spread the obsession of growing figs to your backyard. I'm Ross Raddi. A YouTuber growing the food they say you can't. You can grow anything you want. Anywhere.”
For more figs and home-gardening-specific conversation, please revisit our 2-part episode series #65 and #66 aired last year in October.
Ross shares the best tips to grow plants and food, how to turn passion into profit, the art of growing food, his miraculous health journey through the idea of “food is medicine,” and more.
Interested in starting a home gardening project? Want to learn how to avoid easily preventable mistakes from an expert?
Let's get this started.
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Show Notes:
Ross' Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh4xi7vaYdiuljzcdr4pBw
Ross' Website: https://www.figboss.com/
Ross' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rossraddi/?hl=en
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