{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fs3-ep4-1n2LX4LT","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"An Architect Who Went Back to the Barn","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/b1a3a14b-1633-40e5-8fc7-eb13820f4e69/cropped_1788974122068.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c68d1160-82ae-4401-8b20-11d9a325f5b0\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"An Architect Who Went Back to the Barn\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Patrick Verkley is President and CEO of Verkley Design and Modeling and farms broilers in Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo, a degree he pursued partly as a route back to a farm that had no room for him. In this conversation he explains how 3D modelling lets a farm see a yard expansion before committing millions to it, why designing structures in isolation builds in constraints that outlast the people who chose them, and how he structured an arrangement with his parents to establish his own broiler operation. He also speaks openly about an ADHD diagnosis that followed years of undiagnosed depression, and how understanding it changed the way he builds a business around his own strengths."}