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We’ve got a great guest this week. We’ve got the editor and chief Carol Conair back with us for another great adventure. And actually, it’s going to be a great episode because, you know, as gardeners, we’re always looking to the future. And I think the Farmers Almanac does that a little bit while also keeping one foot back in that romantic nostalgia back in the past. I love it. To put put that in perspective, the Farmers Almanac was uh originated in 1792 and now with their 2026 edition, it is now the 234th consecutive edition. So, without further ado, let’s get into it with Carol Conair. Carol, how’s it going? Oh, it’s going great. It’s it’s been an awesome growing season so far. Can you tell our listeners uh where about in the country uh are you and did you grow a little bit this summer? Yes, I’m in New England. I’m in New Hampshire and I had a I had a good year in a lot of respects and a poor year in some others. Um my fruit trees did amazing. We had a very wet spring and then uh my vegetables not so much. I got some not very great dirt, I think. Uh and so it was it was topsyturvy, shall we say, but I was just picking beans tonight and raspberry, so I can’t complain too much. Hey, there we go. Silver lining. God, fresh beans and raspberries. Are you kidding me? It sounds awesome. Well, let’s get into it. Like I said, I loved last year’s edition. It was so fun to learn from you. Um I’ve seen the Farmers Almanac before I grew up seeing that book around and I it’s really interesting. I didn’t realize as a kid kind of the um the history and legacy about that it has. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about kind of the historical roots of the Old Farmers Almanac? Sure. We’ve been around for almost forever. 1792 uh it was George Washington’s first term as president because they were longer at that time. And um yeah, I think it’s it’s kind of an amazing legacy and and what works is our founder, Robert B. Thomas, he had the recipe from the beginning. He wanted this book to be useful and entertaining with a sense of humor. And so we try to maintain that today. You know, emphasis on useful. And you know, we’re in the digital age. And so, you know, I think a lot of people in the past year have been saying to me, it’s this great uh alternative to my phone. you know, it’s like I can pick up a printed thing and get lots of things. So, that’s a that’s a good thing to hear. Carol, it’s so funny you mentioned that because as I was prep preparing for today’s episode, I was I was reading the new manual you sent over the almanac and I’m just kind of thumbming through it and something hit me and I’m like, you know, I love this. I love the feel of the paper. I know everything like we’re in an increasingly digital world, but just that analog feel of a of the book, the paper, even I don’t know if I’m weird by saying this, maybe you the smell of the pages I love it. Isn’t that weird? Like it kind of brought me back to childhood a little bit and there’s just something comforting about it. But I’ll tell you this, the best part about the farmer the old farmers almanac in a paper form. Uh there’s no comment section. So it’s also it’s all it’s all positivity. There’s like there’s it’s useful. There’s some fun stories in there and let’s uh we’ll get into that. But uh I really love that you can touch it, feel it, and hold on to it. There’s something about that. Yeah. Thank you. Me too. I think it’s I think people might need that more than ever these days. For sure. Let’s give a plug for our friends in Canada. Uh we get all of our paper for the almanac from Canadian paper makers and they call it almanac paper because we print so many and use so much paper. So it does have a certain aroma. Yeah, I love it. It smells smells so good. Well, what’s new? I mean this year it’s 2026. The farmers the old farmers almanac really is uh forward looking from from what I can tell. So uh what are let’s get the weather predictions. That’s what really kind of got you guys on the map. Um, giving farmers an idea of what the general weather and climate could be for that future growing season. And what does it look like? And then how did you actually even come to this idea? Well, uh, first of all, as you said, like you know, back in the old days, uh, when we first started out, you know, a grower needed any kind of a leg up that they could. Uh and so having a long range range weather prediction was that you know especially when we depended on our farms for the food and so our founder Robert B. Thomas was an astronomer and he developed a formula for predicting long range weather which uses the solar cycle the magnetic storms on the sun and so we don’t have a secret formula. We like to let people know we have our own team at ACUE weather but they do use our our long-term long-standing formula and that’s really what it is. It’s about data. It’s looking at patterns, but of course nowadays when we’re in a warming world, we’re also tweaking a lot of that data to just reflect what we know and what we’re seeing. So, um, prediction-wise, we’re calling for a pretty mild overall winter for most of the US, though not true for the eastern seabboard and down to Florida. We’re predicting actually a really a cold, colder than normal, wetter than normal um, winter. And snowwise, uh, again, it’s kind of like we’re saying last year there was snow pretty far south. And we’re saying again, you’re going to see it in the Carolinas, you’re going to see it in the eastern Ohio Valley, you’re going to see it even in the desert southwest. So, there’s some anomalies, but you know, overall we’re saying that um precipitation and temps will be temp precipitation is a little bit down most of the country and and temperatures are going to be on the warm side. So again, you can look for the very um you know those you we predict the weather for 17 regions every day of the year. So if people want to pick up the book for less than 10 bucks, it’s a pretty good bet. This year we were over 90% on our I think we’re in the 80s for 80% on temperature if I’m right at 16 out of 18 regions off of normal and precipitation. I think we were 17 out of 18. And so, you know, what we’re talking about is maybe two or three degrees difference. But in some places, we know that makes all the difference if if your buds are on the trees and that’s between freezing and not freezing or if you’re going to have less snow cover, which is, you know, for some of us a fertilizer, you know, what what are we going to do to protect our plants uh over the winter? So there’s lots of information about that, but that’s what we’re calling for and uh yes, we base that on data, you know, and it’s out there, but also knowing that the growing zones, the hardiness zones did all tick up for almost everybody in the US, at least half a zone or a full zone um a couple of years ago. So, we we do those tweaks. But, you know, I think the questions we’re getting the most from people, it’s about those those very short-term, very hardcore rain events, like a lot of rain falling in a short amount of time. And so, really, the indicator there is that with a warming planet, there’s just more moisture in the atmosphere. So, the risk of those is greater. You know, that when when you get that moisture, it could really come. It might be that you don’t have more overall for your region. You might be getting 5 in or something for the winter, but you might get a lot of that in one or two very big storms. And we know that has severe implications for erosion and soil. So, I think more than ever, we’re really seeing people pay attention to soil as the as the resiliency factor both for drought and for these rain events. Well, it’s very important. I like that you brought that up because for us, I mean, it’s every single week. soil and soil health and building that soil really tends to be one of the key factors in having a a healthy garden at least from our perspective. And so uh to get some knowledge and a little head up on when to protect your soil, maybe how to protect it, I think can be very beneficial for sure. I think what’s interesting is, you know, we have an archive of all of the almanacs going back to 1792 and we’ve been doing a big indexing project and thinking about what stories we do over and over again. And it’s just fascinating to see the attention to soil in the 1790s and the early 1800s. You know, planting green manure crops that we can plow under and just really thinking about, of course, back then everybody’s a smallcale farmer. They’ve got livestock. They’re putting that manure onto their soil. They’re regenerating the soil. We all know what happened with the dust bowl. You know, it’s like we’re we’re relearning. But certainly when you go back in time, um soil was the was very important to the early farmers. They paid attention to it and that was innovation at the time, like you know, crops that you would plant to plow under to feed your soil. What’s old is new again. So, Carol, I love this weather talk. Can you um kind of zero in a little bit on our region and let us know? Uh we’re here in Sacramento, Northern California. What is our winter and summer going to be like potentially for this upcoming seasons? So, we are saying winter, you’re used to this, is going to be warmer and drier than normal. So, more of what you’ve been seeing. No, I want rain. I want rain, Carol. I know. I’m so sorry. And also below normal mountain snow. So, if you’re escape to escape to the mountains, don’t expect that much. Um, though we’re seeing cold temperatures uh in late January and late February. So you get a little respit there, but look for storms. We’re saying in late November, mid January, and late February. Spring, warmer than normal and below normal rainfall. I know you don’t want to hear that. And a hotter and drier than normal summer. We’re used to hot and dry, so I guess that’s it is what it is. You know, it just means more drip systems and we’ll have to use more organic matter in our soil to hold on to that moisture. More mulch as well. I saw in your in your almanac that you have trends for 2026 and the trends kind of they span so many different uh categories. I think food, pets, culture, even travel. I I love the agurism um that popped up in there. So, have you seen that as a trend? I noticed some farms that I visited. They’ve really transitioned into um being able to kind of support their income by bringing people to their farm in fun and exciting ways. So, can you talk a little bit about that? Absolutely. In fact, we’re picking up on that. And then in and then the 27 edition, we’re going to be doing a bigger feature about that like and we have some of the uh US farmers profiled uh about that as well is how how are we diversifying our business? It’s kind of like any business, right? Farming, you got to diversify your income streams. Uh you need them throughout the year. It can’t just be a seasonal thing. So, what does that look like? You know, that looks like bringing people to your farm, maybe doing hay rides or pumpkin patches or corn mazes, having weddings, um bringing school groups on, having people buy direct from the farmer, whether that’s, you know, grass-fed beef or flower bouques or whatever it is or or or value added products. We’re seeing a lot of that. I have tomatoes. I might bring those to farmers market. I’m an amazing tomato farmer, say, but now I’m going to make those sauces. I’m going to go into a new income stream and people can buy that from me as well. Or even delivery. We see farms making headway by doing delivery. We know people like to get their groceries delivered. Well, why not get your your farm produce delivered? So, a little bit of different on the on the CSA or the share model. I love it. Yeah. Straight from the farmer. Yeah. Cut out the middleman. Very cool. Yeah, those trends are great and there’s so much in there to pick through. Um, one of the fun things about the book, you said it’s very there’s a lot it’s to be useful and helpful, but there’s just a lot of fun stories and things uh in there that I really enjoy and the historical connections. Something that I really kind of um get caught up in. And one that I really loved and maybe we can dive into it a little bit is that you there’s an article in this year’s um Almanac and it talks about how gardens were in 1776 when the when the country was founded. Yeah. Eat your scarro. Uh so can you tell us a little bit what how were gardens different or similar to what we call how we garden now? Were they different? How did people approach it and what were they like back then? And what is a spirit? Right. Well, I think uh I think in my view we hear from a lot of people even like the homesteading community say you know that that the idea of of having it’s really a kitchen garden. We could call it a kitchen garden. That’s what the story is really about is in 1776, 250 almost years ago when this country was founded, most people had one. That’s really what we had. And so outside your door, outside your kitchen door, your kitchen obviously wasn’t always attached to your house because it was most likely to burn down. So a lot of people might have like an ancillary building or right off the back. And so it also made that accessible to the garden area. So everything you wanted to eat would be out there. but also medicinals. People were growing their own medicinal plants. And you know, certainly in 1792 when we began, medicine was non-existent or in its infancy. And so plant uh plant medicinals were actually what people depended on. And so your garden would have edibles, but also it would have your livestock just beyond. You’d have fruit trees kind of around the back. And then you’d really have things like chamomile or, you know, comfrey or other plants that are really coming back, I think, into popularity because we understand that they’re good for us and they’re actually good for the other plants. You know, they’re kind of these key companion plants to having a better crop. So, skirts are really a precursor to carrots. They’re a hearty little root vegetable and, you know, a bit be like a turnup um you know, or a a parsnip. I will say a parsnip. I love parsnips, right? And these are a little bit sweeter. And so, uh, you can still I was looking online. You can still get seeds for these. You know, it’s an heirloom variety, but this was a a major crop. Like, everybody had them at the time because they, you know, it’s the it’s the it’s the triple threat. It’s like easy to grow, easy to store, and it’s really good for you. So, eat your skirts. Eat your skirts. Yeah. And I And I read in the article, it talks about how they position it on the side of the house so you don’t have to always look at it. Although I love the look of a vegetable garden and that it’s near the stables so you have quick access to the manure. And I’m sure they didn’t talk about it in 1776, but I have to imagine those home gardens, those kitchen gardens were organically cultivated. I’m sure nobody was making, you know, was touting their horn on that one. It just was the norm, right? And if you read, you know, the the farmer’s essays are one of my favorite parts of the almanac and those are on the calendar pages and we have one for every month and it’s really evocative of the season or that what’s you know we know that every month really is its own season maybe even every few weeks when you’re a gardener but back in the day it’s it’s kind of funny because the tone of them is sort of rofal and and didactic like you know you must be you know tending your cows or he who doth not you know will pay for it later. You know, find a good wife. Yeah. You will if you if not, you will come down with the cold. Exactly. And you’ll be sorry. And then in December is like the only month you get off. That’s fun. I noticed in there. It was pretty cool. I I love how that it’s very farmer and grower and garden centric. Um what are some of the major obstacles that farmers in the US right now uh that what are they facing and how are they dealing with these? Well, I think we touched on a few of them. I think, you know, one of them is, uh, challenging weather. Uh, and so, you know, when you are an industrial farmer, say, you know, that’s harder to think about making a large amount of land, uh, regenerative, you know, so it’s easier for the smaller farmer. But I think there’s a lot of attention to that. You know, you’ll see that in our trend section, like even large farms planting pollinator hedges. you know, we know we need those pollinators to get our crops pollinated and so let’s bring them in with beneficial plants that are also good for the soil, also good for resiliency. You know, there is robotics coming in, I think, because farmers also need to deal with uh in this in this climate we see invasives getting worse. Um, in our garden guide for 2026 that will come out in January, we do a whole story on invasives and really how to get rid of them. the most per the most common ones and I think farmers deal with that on a larger scale and so they’re finding that they can use a lot less pesticides or herbicides if they target those and there’s literally robots that can do that. Um other things they’re facing is you know their markets. We know with the tariffs like things have gone away um or easier markets and so that they’re finding new markets and actually I think that’s been good for some farmers for innovation. Also again like we said really direct to consumer can they promote themselves you know farmers having to become marketers uh I think is a trend that we’re also seeing is like doing podcasts or social media to make sure that they’re connecting with their consumers on the places that they are so that they can let them know about what they have. Um, so I think some those are some of the things also just finding help. Um, not just because of immigration and some of the, you know, the labor force getting pressured, but just that’s already been a problem. And so, you know, what does that look like and how can they be innovative? Again, there are some technologies coming online that can help with in time harvesting, but deploying those is a lot of money. And so, you know, all these forces are at farmers is like how to integrate technology sort of those larger market forces and then also staying true to what you do. You know, we see but we do see there is a trend I think we’re going to touch on it in 2027 about younger folks coming back to the farm and why it’s because technology, marketing, you know, these things that maybe they’ve gone to go get schooling in are actually really now applicable. biology, you know, all of these sciences and really uh liberal arts in a way are are very much relative to how a farm is going to survive today. Yeah. Farmers from the sound of it, they really have to wear a lot of hats and they have to be kind of a jack of all trades to really be successful. Right. Backyard growers, not so much. We have a bad year, we still can go to the farmers market. Yeah. We move on. It’s like we learn we we take our lumps and just we’ll come back next year. Um Right. So, I’ve noticed that you guys have some pretty incredible stories in there. I love the little short stories, the essays. Um, what is one of your favorite from this year’s Almanac? You’ve got to have one. Oh, I have several. Um, I we have one that’s not it’s like kind of not farming, but it’s growing. And Jason is about aromatic house plants because I think, you know, it’s so cool that house plants saw this huge surge with COVID and during the pandemic. It was it was it was already happening certainly with like younger generation and you know older generations like mine have always been houseplant fanatics but then the time and the energy that could be spent to sharing that with others and propagating and and collecting. And so I love that story because it’s just so fun to think about filling your house with all these scents just as your house plant. you know, you know, you can go get one of these wonderful things like a jasmine or um even a citrus, you know, something like that. And I think we are learning more and more about the health benefits of just plants generally. You know, there’s a lot of science around just sticking your hands in the dirt and breathing in those microbes is actually a stress reliever. Uh and certainly aromomas are one of those big things. And so, you know, how good that is for us as people and something plants can give us. So, I really love that story. And especially when you most people think of house plants, we’re not instantly, you know, equating it to fragrance. So I when I saw that article of fragrant house plants, it kind of clicked with me too. I’m like, I like that. That sounds like fun. Yeah. I mean, I have a several other favorites. Um I think it’s it’s a it’s just kind of a funny subject is leftovers. you know, we were banding about uh on staff like, well, we need to do a food story and you know, many of us bring our lunch and like some people are like anti- leftover and some people are like, “Yeah, I’m just making a fresh sandwich.” And other people are like, “No, I I have to have leftovers for lunch.” So, we really decided to to dig in to that subject. And there’s some science behind it. There’s some uh popularity polls. And you know, I think that’s a really fun one, too, just because as growers, as people who like to grow their own food, and you know, typically our cooks, we end up with leftovers. Oh, for sure. I am I’m a father. I’ve got three little boys. We we I make big meals. There’s always leftovers. And this quote from George Carlin in there really uh really got to me. So, can I share that with us? Yeah, absolutely. I loved it. So, this is from George Carlin, American comedian, uh, legend. But, you know, leftovers make you feel good twice. Do you ever think about that? Leftovers give you two separate good feelings. When you first put them away, you feel really intelligent. I’m saving food. And then after a month, when hair is growing out of them, and you throw them away, you feel really intelligent. I’m saving my life. So, I Yeah. So, yeah, they can be enjoyed twice for sure. Um, I love it. I had I had a grandmother who grew up during the depression and we would always have to clean out her fridge because she would save every little last thing and it was very, very blue and hairy and lots of mold growing on it. I’m sure that’s why we never got sick. You’re like, “Your cottage cheese went bad.” It’s like, “That was actually milk.” I was like, “Okay, then your milk’s really bad.” I’ve been there. I’m guilty. I love how the Elman gives you also a lot of like tips and hints on different things you can do. What are some of the ways the Almanac can help people actually save money and just live a little bit happier? Is that possible? Oh, I think so. If you look at our reference section for one thing, you know, just lots of lots of tips uh to do things better in your own life. Like I think this year we we really try to refresh the reference section in the back of the book and this year we have a whole set of tips about how to when to harvest your produce and how to store it for longevity. Um so I think that’s a really helpful one. You know, we do have the frost and planting tables which prevents you from planting things too early and wasting a lot of seed. Certainly leftovers is a frugal person’s game. You know, even the idea of a kitchen garden, uh, you know, is also something that we’re seeing that people are turning to. I can grow better food and cheaper food um, and not have to go to the store. That saves on so many fronts, you know. So, I think there’s lots of tips like that um, that you’ll find throughout the book. So, also honey, we have a a fun story about honey. And honey is really a home remedy. And there’s lots of new science about how honey heals all kinds of things from wounds to what it can do internally for you. So, that’s something simple that people usually have access to, um, but they may not know. So, we have even a tip on how to make honey drops that you can up your honey quotient if you’d like. Um, so just things that, you know, are just information. So, it’s like, oh, I have honey and I never eat it. Well, maybe if I do, I’m going to use that for this or that, you know, ailment. And how to make a hot totty, which more than once I’ve had to have one of those. I I I love honey. Personally, I love concentrated nectar and bees spit. It’s delicious. It’s awesome. Honey is great. I actually I love adding it to my vinegarettes when I’m making like nice cucumber salad or something. It’s just the best. I love it. Exactly. It’s It’s I’ve used it in baking all the time, too. You know, you can We give the substitutions in there. If you don’t want to be using sugar in your recipes, honey’s a can be a great alternative. It’s just a little bit different amount and it it works really well in most recipes. Huda, I love it. Um, if someone’s curious and they’re like, “All right, I’m sold. I I need something to read, you know, at the house or kick around a little bit.” Um, where can people find a copy of this year’s edition? Just about anywhere you buy your garden supplies. We are in stores across North America, to be honest with you. big box stores from Lowe’s and Ace Hardware to mom and pop shops. Um, also almanac.com is a great place to buy the almanac and we’re on Amazon. So really anywhere you would buy books so you’ll see us. I mean new stands are pretty much shrinking. So a lot of stores we just have our own stands like this time of year. You could walk into supermarkets. I I get pictures from friends around the country this time of the year when they send me the snapshots of the almanacs out and it’s like right there at the register. So, and it has lots of our calendars and journals and some other products, too. But the almanac is the big seller this time of year and really um it’s available in all those places through the new year. You know, sales really continue through through January. Um, but if people you also want to just get a taste of things, Almanac, almanac.com is a great place to see what we’re doing. You know, it’s a little bit different. You don’t get the features, you don’t get some of the uh in-depth stuff, but a lot of the tools are there. And in fact, um, with AI, you know, hitting all of our lives in different ways, we’ve been developing more and more tools that are sort of non AI, like I want to plant a container garden. What size container do I need for tomatoes versus cucumbers? I need to order mulch. Uh what how much how do I measure that? How do I do that? What day of the week was I born on? If I punch in my birthday, I might just want to know that. If it was a Thursday or a Wednesday. So, you know, there’s lots of fun calculators and tools online, too, which are a great addition to the book, but I think also have the flavor of what we’re doing if people want to check that out. Yeah. I noticed that you sent over a few copies for us to enjoy before our interview. Appreciate it. And you also sent over uh an annual garden guide, which I didn’t even know you you guys had. That’s pretty cool. It’s so Thank you. It’s really uh it’s our companion publication to the Almanac. It comes out in January. We’re just finishing up the 2026 edition. And I don’t mind giving you a little preview of some of the stories. We have just it made me think of what you said because I was a writer in California. We have a story about firefighters. What to plant in the yard to um uh combat wildfires. Like it’s true. You know, if you look at some of these photographs after a fire, you can see some of the landscape still standing and that might be the only thing. There’s a lot of things that you have to do to your house. You don’t, you know, unpainted things are bad and and how fire brands get in. But your plants and your landscape can actually really protect your house and also have added benefits like citrus is an incredible tree to plant because it is a firefighter and also produces fruit. Um, so we have a lot of tips about that coming out and and a really fine story about that as well as the invasives. Like I said, I think uh one thing that a warming world is doing is letting the invasives uh come in. I know in my yard I’ve been paddling notweed. Uh I have friends who are uh are really nice people otherwise but when they talk about bittersweet they get nasty and you know trying to eradicate these things just from our yards but then you can also see the toll they’re taking um on larger scales. So we have a story about how to how to get rid of them in your own area and what to do about that. um for fun stuff. Let’s see. We have oh we have this cool story on black flowers like the goth uh flowers and so our our top picks for those if you want to add that to your landscape. Um that is pretty cool because you don’t see those too often. You don’t see a lot of black blossoms and and more and more they’ve been their hybridizers are really getting into it, you know. So there’s some fun stuff. Um, one thing that we don’t do much of in the east, I think, as home growers, is we we plant a lot of green beans, like I was just picking tonight, but we don’t do a lot of dried beans. And so, we have a story about that and about peppers. Again, a hot weather lover, right? You know, um, they can really thrive. So, some stories about that, a story about that in the new new garden guide. I’ve got some ghost peppers in our school garden ready for you there, Carol. Come by. Come by for a bite. And some habaneros as well. Um, I also had I couldn’t help but notice on on your your bio it said that you’re working on the old the old farmers almanac for kids as well. Where can we see that? Because I have children and they’d probably love it. Oh, I’m going to make a note to get some out to you. Oh, bless you. So, that is every other year. It’s an incredible publication. We just came out with volume 11. There’s a toucan on the cover and you’ll see it for sale in a lot of places. We sell the almanac, but it’s also available online. And this year, some really fun stories. There’s one about how to grow a pizza patch. And then on almanac.com, you can buy like the little bundle of seeds to do the pizza patch, which is super cool, you know. Um, and just think, but more than that, animals, astron, all the things that we do in the almanac, but for kids, facts, calendar stuff. I wrote a story on hula hoops for the for the issue. We have a tornado chasing story. Oh my goodness. Yeah, there’s just there’s probably 40 or 50 stories. And again, I don’t know about you, but maybe you don’t want to give your kid a screen. You know, you’re going on a road trip or something else. And you know, all the studies that have just recently come out about reading, you know, reading is down except not reading to kids. And so kids are kind of our um our frontier here of making them good readers. And so the almanac for kids is definitely part of that. That’s awesome. Um if you had one last thing to say to our listeners, uh call to action, what would you say to them? Oh, I think just what we said before, like I think all of us would love to maybe uh have some screen time out. Uh, and you know, we know reading is a really great way to enjoy life. And so I think you’ll find, you know, people are looking for a reason to put their phone down. You can’t find a better one with the almanac. It’s still got the hole in the corner. You can hang it wherever you’d like on a nail, on a string. You know, that’s ultimately we’re useful. I think people will find that. And also, I think it brings a smile. It’s uh we’re a-political, which is is sometimes a nice thing, too. And so, uh yeah, just bringing bringing joy to people’s day. Yeah, for sure. It’s just fun, interesting stuff, and I think people if they give it a shot, they’re really going to get hooked on it. It’s a lot of fun. Um Carol, last question before we go, have some fun with you. If you were a flower, what kind of flower would you be, Carol? Oh, I’m a sunflower for sure. I follow the sun. Helot tropism, you know I like to be outside and uh I planted a few this year which in my old yard I couldn’t. I had too many deer and I just love it. They’re taller than me. I went out there on a rainy I don’t know April morning and planted a bunch of seeds and to see those guys 6 feet tall right now. Yeah. Gives me a lot of a lot of pleasure and I feel I feel I feel with them. There we go. All right. Carol the sunflower conair editor and chief of the old farmers almanac. Hey, thank you so much for being here, Carol. We really appreciate it. Thank you, Kevin. [Music]
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