Hydroponic & SoilLess Growing at Swank Farm and What can be Gleened from their Success
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Swank Specialty Produce to learn about their farm to table event and share with you how this commercial family farm grows food on a large scale to feed the residents of South Florida. In this episode, John will share some of the practices this commercial farm uses to grow food successfully and how some of these practices can be used by the home gardener.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the most important vegetable he is growing for his health in his garden.
In this episode, you will learn about the Ashitaba plant also known as Angelica keiskei from Japan. This rare crop has beneficial nutrients contained within that has been heavily researched in Japan.
John believes one of the reasons for the beneficial properties and evolvement of this plant is due to the trace minerals available to the plant where it was traditionally grown, and encourages you to add these trace minerals into your garden to have the highest quality Ashitaba. Learn more about the trace minerals at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnBuE20QUirXyTw5MCeSKddtfTlw-n-eb
Purchase seed for the Ashitaba at:
https://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=1302
John from http:/www.growingyourgreens.com/ spoke at the 2015 Martch against Monsanto in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this episode, you will learn more about the March against Monsanto in Las Vegas. You will discover more about what is a GMO food? You will then hear from a few of the people attending the march about Monsanto and GMOs. Next you will hear John's solution-based speech that will share the top 2 things you must do to protect you and your family from GMO foods.
Next, you will get to see some of the March that took place in Las Vegas and finally, learn about
Learn more about GMO FREE Las Vegas that hosted this event:
http://gmofreevegas.com/
Learn more about the March Against Monsanto at:
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
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John http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ gives you a tour of his front yard garden and talks about weedy vegetables or plants that will re-seed themselves in your garden so you don't have to replant them. In this episode John will share with you about a dozen crops that have dropped seed and come up on their own in his garden. By growing weedy vegetables it will reduce the amount of work so you can be eating more out of your organic garden and less out of the grocery store.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Veteran Compost outside Baltimore, Maryland to share with you how compost and worm castings are made on an industrial scale. In this episode you will learn about the essential components of creating your own compost at home or on an industrial scale. You will also discover why removing food scraps from the waste stream (trash) is an excellent idea and how this turned into a business. You will see how to have fly free, bug free worm castings with no fungus gnats and other bugs.. Finally, In this episode you will learn how Justen created a job for himself and other US military veterans and their famlies and how you can too.
Learn more about veteran compost at
http://www.veterancompost.com
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he transplants one of his fruit-bearing trees into a larger container. In this episode, John will share with you some tips for successfully transplanting fruit trees or other crops into a larger container. Sometimes you don't want to plant trees or plants in the garden, so moving it up to a larger container can be advantageous. After watching this episode you will learn the specific methods to John's transplanting madness so you can have the highest level of success with your transplants.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the forest to share with you how a forest system works. You will discover how the plants and trees in the forest get nutrition without the use of chemical fertilizers.
You will learn the three essential nutrients that should be added to your garden to produce the highest yields and most productive food that chemical fertilizers can not provide.
After watching this episode you will learn some of the foundations of John's organic biologic gardening style.
Referenced Videos:
Supersize Your Garden with Wood Chips and Rock Dust:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEkFFRjDkvs
Increase Crop Yields by up to 400%:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Emu9hwhsc
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers a viewers questions, including:
When to harvest sweet potato?
How to Get Onions to Grow Faster?
How Deep of a container do I need to grow carrots?
Can I use Carnivorous Plants to eat my bugs?
What are Silver Beets?
When is the Right Time to Harvest Garlic?
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions. In this episode John will answer the following questions:
1. How to Grow food despite of Gophers in Your Garden.
2. Will you sell some seed for achocha? (caigua)
3. What should I do with my winter crops that are still in the ground when I want to plant my spring garden?
4. Why do we have to rotate our annuals vegetables and not our perennial crops.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening related questions. In this episode you will discover the answers these questions as well as learn other interesting tidbits along the way:
1. Do you irrigate your plants with tap water?
2. Please comment on the Stanford Study: Organic vs Non-Organic. Which is best?
3. Have you heard of the Moringa Plant? Are you growing any?
4. What watt CFL light bulb do I need to use to get my pepper plant to produce?
5. My cucumber has a bend in it? Is there still time to get it straight?