John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to China Ranch Date farm. In this episode John shares with you about date culture and how you can grow your own date palms from "pups" or date pits. You will also discover how dates are non true-to-seed and how they are cloned. Finally, you will learn about the perennial wild coyote gourd aka Coyote Melon with Edible seeds that are high in protein and fat.

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ interviews permaculture designer and founder of Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design and Botanical Studies about the diet that can save the world. In this episode, you will learn about the Perennial Diet and how eating Perennial crops can be better for you and the planet. You will learn the difference between eating a diet based on annual plants (what most people eat today) most often results in more labor, tillage, and damage to the soil and environment. You will discover how a permaculture food forest fits right into the perennial diet and how it can be one of the answers to help save the world. You will learn how by changing over to eating more perennial based foods, you can do your part to conserve and protect the earth, the soil, and water from degradation and help to regenerate the earth by voting with your dollars or growing your own perennial crops including fruit trees and other plants that easily grow year after year. Stephen will share the most important perennial foods in a tropical climate and how they can be easily grown to sustain you, your family and other people. You will then learn which crops can be grown in more temperate climates that are focused on disturbing the soil less, creating more fertility in the soil and require less labor. After watching this episode, your diet will never be the same again. You may want to eat more of these perennial foods in your diet to ensure you are doing your part to save the planet and eat a healthy diet based on plants that you can grow where ever you live. Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch all 1200+ Episodes from GrowingYourGreens at https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Learn more about Punta Mona at: http://puntamona.org/