John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to South Florida to share with you an urban homesteader that is growing edible crops on their standard residential tract home. In this episode, John will give you a tour of the property, including aquaponic system, fruit trees and other edible plants that are flourishing in South Florida. You will discover a special variety of Aloe that is best for Health and Healing. John will also talk about a special variety of moringa that tastes better and smells like heaven. Finally John will share with you how the aloe grows, how to harvest aloe leaves, and how you can easily pull the pups for transplanting. You will also learn how to divide the mother plant to grow even more aloe vera. After watching this episode, you will learn some of the crops that grow well in South Florida and about dividing Aloe Vera.

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ gives you a tour of a vertical aquaponics farm that is using sustainable bamboo towers to maximize production in a commercial greenhouse to grow vegetables and fish year round in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this episode, John visits Dachnick Domes and Aquaponics, that provides commercial aquaponics solutions and shares with you four independent aquaponics systems that can grow food anywhere. First, John will provide you an overview of the Vertical Aquaponics system sharing with you more about why the company was founded and how they will release a all-in-one aquaponics greenhouse dome kit that will be powered by the sun. Next, John will provide an overview of the aquaponics system in this greenhouse,, and then take you on a tour of many of the different areas of the aquaponics system so you can learn how an aquaponics system works and how specifically they are using their growing space to maximize their production of the vegetable crops they are growing. You will learn about the sustainable bamboo towers that are used to grow in the vertical space above the gravel and float beds that allow them to get 10x more production than without using the vertical space. John will then share with you the basics of an aquaponics system and the nutrient rich water flows through the system to feed the various vegetables growing in the different areas including: gravel beds, float beds, bamboo towers and soil based containers. You will see for yourself how food is being grown in all these different areas and some tips of specific crops that can be grown under the different situations. You will also learn two in-line water conditioners that are being used that may help to increase the health of the vegetables and fish. John will then take you up into the 15 foot tall cherry tomato plants to show you the abundant amount of tomatoes that are growing under this aquaponics system. After watching this episode, you will learn more about vertical aquaponic farming and what is possible using aquaponic, aeroponic and other technologies to increase production of fruits and vegetables. 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 Dachnik Domes and Aquaponics at: http://dachnikdomes.com/

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shows you from start to finish how to take an abandoned backyard space and transform it into a edible vegetable garden. In this episode, you will learn most everything you will need to know to start growing your food. You will discover the process that John goes through to select the best soil, build the raised beds, layout the raised beds, plant the raised beds and even install the drip irrigation system with a timer. This project took about 2 days to complete. Including 1 day sourcing all materials, and 1 day putting it all together.

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how you can make two organic edible kids toys out of the garden. In this episode, John shares with you some garden vegetables that can be used as a koosh ball and a rocket ship! In addition, you will learn a special technique that John discovered to turn 100% organic mature, fibrous Okra into Green Slime! Watch this episode for a fun and enjoyable time. John encourages everyone to have fun in the garden and gets kids involved with growing food in the garden, but also having fun in the garden. John believes that having fun and laughing is deeply connected to learning. The Juicer shown in this episode is the Omega NC800 available at: http://www.discountjuicers.com/omeganc800.html