Kevin Espiritu

If I ate them, I probably wouldn't name them, which probably sounds irrational, but it just is what it is.

Oh, yeah.

It's such a good question.

I mean, you brought up Victory Gardens earlier.

I think back in those times, we produced something like 15% to 20% of our produce as a nation from the Victory Garden movement.

But that took a world war to galvanize everyone to do.

So what would it take?

I'm not really sure.

If everyone did it,

what do I think would happen to the food system?

I mean, it would meaningfully change, but then you've got to remember, what are most of the crops being produced in America?

It's like soy, corn, and wheat.

Those aren't probably going to be grown a ton, even if tens of millions of people started home gardening.

They'd probably be hitting the tomatoes, the basil, the this, the that.

I would say what you'd see the biggest impact is probably the entire culture's attitude toward sustainability and food systems would change for the better in a meaningful way.

I don't necessarily know you'd solve the topsoil crisis by doing that.

Completely.

Absolutely.

I mean, before I started gardening, like I said, I was like addicted to playing video games.

You know, I didn't know anything about this.