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Frank Hyman

Horticulturist, author, and foraging expert; owner of Cottage Garden Landscaping in Durham, NC.

Jul 8, 2026

KKHOST
71:03
What is what was your favorite part of writing this book? Like what what drove you home with it?
71:11
Well, I would say there are two favorite parts.
71:14
One is that it's a little bit of a memoir where I get to talk about the stories of my life.
71:20
I've had a rock and roll life, you know, I kind of cracked the code on some things as a teenager.
71:25
I was a very timid kid.
71:27
teenager.
71:28
I was a weakling.

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KKHOST
77:33
Where can people get your awesome book, Ripe Tomato Revolution?
21:07
Mm-hmm.
21:07
You know, so a triangular roof, so it looks m- more charming, and the, uh, timber bamboo just really looks beautiful.
21:15
The skill for that is kinda more into carpenter's helper.
21:21
You need to have s- a little bit of skill and some unusual tools.
21:25
But I describe how to do that and say, yeah, if you're not a carpenter, you need to recruit a carpenter to help you, show you some things, so then you're off and running.
21:33
Or just have them do it for you if you wanna do the timber bamboo, 'cause it's a different material entirely.
21:37
But 2x2s are just easy, easy, easy.

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31:17
Right
JacquesHOST
36:52
i mean it's possible
36:54
yeah you could see it you could see people being that way you know yeah that plant sucks i bet it's even poisonous and those foolish people and the brits were so felt so superior to people on the continent You know, that could bring up a whole story about mushrooms, which I'd be happy to talk about another time.
37:12
But basically, I'll say that if you grew up afraid of mushrooms, like they're so hard to identify, they're so scary and they can kill you.
37:21
All that really means that's nothing about the mushrooms.
37:23
What that really tells you, a person who feels that way, you grew up in an English speaking country.
37:30
British Isles, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand.
37:33
We grew up feeling like that.

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JacquesHOST
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