Summary: <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/shannie.jpg"></a>Shannie McCabe - Rareseeds.com<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/baker-creek.jpg"></a>Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - Rareseeds.com<br> <br> <br> <br> Shannie McCabe joins us to talk about what it's like to be garden educator and catalog writer for Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.<br> <br> See what Baker Creek has to offer today and be sure to pickup a catalog! – <a href="https://www.rareseeds.com">https://www.rareseeds.com</a><br> <br> Also, checkout Shannie's terrific videos on YouTube - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCToFIe32MeC-P8Z4Uptax_w">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCToFIe32MeC-P8Z4Uptax_w</a><br> Transcription<br> Shannie: I was introduced to Baker Creek, and I thought wow, I love this catalog. This is the most beautiful, fascinating catalog. The stories behind these heirlooms are phenomenal.<br> <br> As a market farmer I made sure to grow Baker Creek varieties because I wanted something that was like colorful and interesting to engage passers by at the farmers market.<br> <br> I wanted something more interesting to stand out.<br> <br> I had subscribed to the email newsletter for Baker Creek, and that's where I saw a email saying they were hiring. So I responded and I moved to the Missouri Ozarks when I was in my early 20s, to a co-garden manager.<br> <br> And then I started reading the catalog and the rest is history.<br> <br> Podcast Intro: If you're someone who refuses to go along to get along, if you question whether the status quo was good enough for you and your family.<br> <br> If you want to leave this world better off than you found it and you consider independence a sacred thing.<br> <br> You may be a prepper, a gardener, a homesteader, a survivalist, or a farmer or rancher, an environmentalist or a rugged outdoorsman.<br> <br> We are here to celebrate you whether you're looking to improve your maverick business or to find out more about the latest products and services available to the weekend rebel.<br> <br> From selling chicken eggs online, to building up your food storage or collecting handmade soap.This show is for those who choose the road less traveled the road to self-reliance for those that are living a daring adventure, life off the grid.<br> <br> Brian: Shannie McCabe studied environmental horticulture and sustainable agriculture at University of Rhode Island and has worked on farms growing organic veggies and flowers for a decade.<br> <br> She has been the farm manager for Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, and is currently a garden educator and catalog writer for the company.<br> <br> She has traveled internationally for Baker Creek, searching for rare and unusual heirloom seeds to offer in the award winning Baker Creek catalog.<br> <br> Shannie McCabe, welcome to the Off The Grid Biz Podcast.<br> <br> Shannie: Thank you for having me.<br> <br> Brian: Yeah, why don't you let everyone know a little bit more about what it is that you do.<br> <br> Shannie: Sure, yeah.<br> <br> So basically, I teach gardening skills. I'm really really obsessed with heirloom seeds, and with gardening and market farming, and in all manner of small farming, gardening, permaculture, growing and homesteading, and then how we use those heirlooms in the kitchen and for crafts and such.<br> <br> So I'm just really obsessed with heirlooms and all the different forms. I was formerly a co garden manager with a couple other people, I helped to write the seed catalog, we've got a few different writers on the catalog these days.<br> <br> But I read the catalog, I helped to write content for our YouTube page.<br> <br> Our YouTube channel is called, Rareseeds.<br> <br> Then making Facebook videos and Instagram videos,
