Editorial

You know what they say about making lemonade when life hands you lemons…

As you may have noticed from our previous issue and various announcements on social media, we are launching (or have by this time launched) a podcast as part of the Southern Soil platform! I have the first few episodes recorded and recently interviewed Kristin Russell, owner of two foodrelated businesses downtown Savannah - The Sentient Bean and Brighter Day.

Kristin and I had a great conversation covering her early childhood days growing up on a farm in Kansas and discussed her business decisions to reduce waste and promote the use of locally sourced products. We were witty and our conversation was insightful and informative.

Unfortunately, I never hit record.

It will forever be known as the podcast that never was! But I can’t let all of Kristin’s insights and inspiration for other business owners to go to waste! So, in the true spirit of recycling, I took that conversation that we had and wrote an article that I hope will be at least half as wonderful as I know that podcast episode would have been!

Practice makes perfect - that’s another of those things that people say, so I’m hoping that over time, the podcast will become more polished and we will be far too professional one day to ever make the mistake of NOT recording! In the meantime, I hope you will join me on this journey and be patient with my imperfections both as a host and an audio engineer.

Be sure to subscribe or follow us wherever you listen to podcasts! And if you can’t find us, please let us know so we can make sure to be listed. We are currently on Google Play, iTunes and Spotify: The Southern Soil Podcast.

In addition to the podcast, we will be exploring additional ways to help build our local food communities and we’re looking for some big things to happen in the coming year!

Please join us and be part of this exciting adventure!

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Thank you for being a part of this community and we look forward to growing with you!

LeeAnna Tatum