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alright! this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com! today we have another exciting episode for you! and this one guys, it’s going to bea really good one here. so i was actually invited to speak for the home grown food summitthat took place online, i guess earlier in the spring this year. actually i’ll posta link down below to the home grown food summit. myself, as well as over, i don’t know, twodozen different , you know, speakers, educators, people that have been growing food for a longtime in the whole home grown food movement actually spoke at this event. and, you know,at the time it was free and now you could pay for, you know, to watch them and whatnot. and, you know, i submitted and made a video of like an hour and a half and i wastold it has to be like an hour. so i actually

chopped out a lot of stuff. and i hate wheni have to cut out content, because i believe the content, and i know some of you guys don’tlike long videos, but you know everything that’s there in the video has a reason andan importance on why i’m saying it. and i’m here not to like give you the quick5 second quick fix, you know, like viagra will help you get it up, that’s a quickfix, you know. there are all these repercussions to not having the full information and thefull story. you know with just partial information you could make decisions that will, you know,inappropriately affect your life. like back in the day doctors recommended cigarette smoking.but, you know, and that’s definitely not a good thing, cigarette smoking. now they’veproven it’s not really that healthy for

you. and that’s, you know, people didn’thave the right information, they’re actually getting misinformed. and there’s a lot ofmisinformation going on here. so i try to fully explain myself in my videos so you’llget the full story. so, anyways, i actually had to chop off like a good half hour of myvideo and i didn’t really like doing that. but i submitted it, it went out and a lotof people watched it and i got a lot of feedback and everybody loved it. so i thought i’dbring it out to my own home grown viewers out there so that they could watch the fulluncut, how could it be cut, version so you guys could benefit from. so the title of thisvideo is simply titled how to grow and use sprouts, microgreens and full size, you know,leafy greens in your garden, you know, outside,

and the sprouts and the microgreens you cangrow inside. so whether you live in an apartment, a condo, a townhouse or have a real houseand have some space, you can grow your greens. and that's what my channel is called. it'scalled growingyourgreens. because i want you guys to be able to grow and eat your leafygreen vegetables. they're the number one most important food on the planet. and you know,for planetary health, you get to eat, think about it, every animal every creature on theearth eats these amazing leafy green vegetables or green foods. whether that's, you know,green vegetables like land based, like cows or oxen or giraffes eating leaves, or thefish you know eating the algae, the green vegetables or the algae or the seaweed ofthe ocean. and that's where all the food starts.

so, you know, i'm going to cut out the middleman and just eat the green leafy vegetables because they are so rich in phyto-chemicals,phyto-nutrients, protein as well as the trace minerals. specially when you're growing theway that i teach you guys because most, you know, industrial grown food does not havethe level of nutrition that you could get at your own garden. and let me tell you, youguys could taste the difference. so if you're not gardening already, i hope this video reallymotivates you to start growing some more greens. and if you are growing them, hopefully italso motivates you to use them more. because also in this video i'll share with you guysthe two best ways on how to use your leafy greens so that you can get more of them intoyou to benefit you and also hopefully get

them in to your family as well. so anyways,without further ado let's go ahead and get into this one hour and a half approximatelylong video. alright, this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com!today we have another special episode actually for you! this is for the home grown food summit.what's up all you guys out there? and today i'm going to share with you guys actuallythe number one way to grow food at home, at a standard residential house. we've got astandard residential house behind me here. and this is where most of america lives, youknow. most of america does not live on farms with acres where they could, you know, havefree range cattle and all these kind of things , live near a, you know, a whatever, a wildliferefuge where you could hunt deer or whatever.

what i wanted to share with you guys is away that you could each easily grow the best food on the planet, literally just at yourhouse. and i want to give you guys a background of me, because i know many of you guys mayhave never heard of me from adam. and you guys don't know who i am. so i want to sharewith you guys how i got in to this, and you know, why i have been so popular , you know.i mean i have a youtube channel growingyourgreens. i have over two hundred thousand subscribersat this time. i've been viewed over 29 million times and i have over a thousand videos allfor free for you guys, to share with you guys all aspects of growing food at home. besidesjust me having episodes at my house, i travel all over the country, even the world, youknow, to share with you guys how other people

are growing foods at home, you know, to giveyou guys some ideas and to hopefully ignite your fires so that you will grow some foodat home and be a change that you want to see in the world.now i'm not a horticulture expert, i didn't go to school for biology or horticulture.you know, i'm not from a generation of family farmers that have been passed down since egyptor whatever. you know, i'm just a normal guy watching like you, you know, out there. ilearned that there is a strong reason for me to grow my own food. i got into growingmy own food. and i just want to share that with you guys the best techniques and strategiesthat i've learnt over the years. i crack a few funny, maybe not so funny, jokes at thesame time. to educate you and teach you and

inspire you to get growing. and that's whyi believe i've been so popular. so if you haven't already checked me out already, besure to check me out on growingyourgreens.com. you know the other thing i do is that i justteach in common mans words, you know. i don't use all these fancy scientific jargons. ijust teach you guys the facts of what works for me, how you guys could do it, that youguys could be healthier, wealthier and wiser in the end. and in any case, you know, whilei do grow in my front yard, today i'm going to show you guys my backyard gardening. iknow with many home owners associations and different laws in certain areas which i thinkare ridiculous, you know. you literally can't grow food, you know, or a vegetable gardenin your front yard. so then that leaves the

back yard. so let's go ahead and head intomy back yard. i'll show you guys what i've got growing on and more importantly some ofthe crops you will want to grow in my opinion. so what we're looking at now is simply myback yard here. and you could kind of see a glimpse of the neighbors back yard. if youcould see the whole neighbors back yard, it's basically just rock. and you know, i mightknow what you might be thinking 'john i've never grown anything before, i've got brownthumbs'. that's alright, you know, i mean i didn't start out with green thumbs thatall day turned green and they're turning darker shades every day as i continue this fun journeyof gardening. and i want to let you guys know no matter where you live you can always growsome food.

i live in one of the, you know, most difficultplaces in the united states to grow food in the southwest desert. i'm in las vegas. mostpeople behind me and most landscaping is desert landscaping, you know. people have this, idon't know, misbelief that you can't grow food in the desert, you know. and what i'velearned since i moved here, you know, you can grow food in the desert. and i've actually,living and growing in the desert has made me a better gardener. because i've had tolearn and do different things that i did previously when i was in california where, you know,things grow pretty easily in most places in california. so yeah, no matter where you liveyou could always grow some food. and i'm growing quite a bit of food in just a small amountof space. i mean, i have a standard residential

house. it's about five thousand two hundredtwenty seven square (5227) feet approximately, .12 (point one two) of an acre. and this iswhat many of you guys may have. you guys might have a little bit more space or maybe evena bit less. but i want to let you guys know that even in a small space you can make adifference in your diet and you can grow all your vegetable needs, you know, year roundlike i do if you live in a mild climate. and even if you live somewhere where it snowsin the winter, you can still grow greens, you know, year round. there are techniquesand ways you could do that, using hoop houses, double hoop houses and you know, using a sourceof compost for your heating. and i have episodes on this on my show. you know, today i'm goingto really get in to, you know, the most important

food crop you can grow. whether you want tobecome healthier, whether you want to be able to survive in case something shit hits thefan, you know. no matter the reason, you know, the greens that i teach you guys how to grow,as well as other vegetables and fruits on my channel and my show are the most importantcrops that i believe you guys should be growing. so today what i'm going to do next is i'mgoing to go ahead and take you down to the garden and share with you guys some reasonswhy the greens are so important and why i focus on greens instead of any other foodthat could grow in my back yard. number two i want to share with you guys some easy greensthat you guys could grow year round if you are in a mild climate. these are known asperennial greens. some of the ones that have

done amazing for me here that grow year round,three hundred and sixty five days a year including one that you could maybe see over there. literallyit's a 12 foot tall vegetable tree that you just pick leafy green vegetables off of everyday of the year nonstop. i mean, imagine if every house in america had a 12 foot tallleafy green vegetable tree. you wouldn't have to go down and buy, you know, leaves, kaleleaves or whatever you know, dark leafy green leaves at your local whole paycheck or youknow whole health food store. i mean i was recently in chicago. they are like $3 a poundfor some leaves. i mean that's ridiculous. i have copious and abundance and everlastingamounts of leafy greens that i've got to harvest for free. and clear and even better, the leafygreens that i grow are better than the ones

money can buy.i want to also let you guys know that, you know, when you guys grow a garden you couldgrow stuff better than what's available in the store. i know many of you guys have hadhome grown tomatoes and tomatoes from the store in the winter time. there's no comparison.but every food that you guys can grow could be dramatically better than the crap at thegrocery store, you know. and those are the techniques that i teach you guys. and i'llshare with you guys some of those today. now aside from the standard perennial vegetables,of course i have annual vegetable crops to fill in to keep my diet full of diversitywhich i'll show you, you know, some areas that i grow diverse amount of different cropsin, and the methods how i do it, you know.

i use a square foot raised bed garden, whichis my primary method. crops which are bio intensive. so, you also want to check outjohn jeavons. he's also one of the speakers here in this summit, and i want to highlyencourage you guys to check him out. i basically take the bio intensive from a farming scale,move it down into a back yard scale. so i really pack things in, give the soil goodnutrients, use some of the techniques out of the mel bartholomew square foot gardenmethod, and plus many of my own techniques, to really have the most amount of food inthe smallest amount of space. because when you have little space like most americansdo to grow food, you really need to utilize every nook and cranny. so if you're lookingat the picture down below there, i mean i

have really small walkways. luckily i'm athin person to get through some of these small walkways. but i really dedicated the mostamount of space to growing food because, you know, after all at the end of the day we allneed to eat and i want to eat some of the highest quality best stuff on the whole planet.so now aside from these two ways, the perennials and the annual vegetables that i'll be sharingwith you guys today, i'm also going to talk about, you know, growing your own food insideyour kitchen, inside your house, you know, sprouts and microgreens. we're having a littlesegment on that. and then finally i'm going to share with you guys the best way you guyscould get the fruits and vegetables, including all these leafy greens into your diet. becausei know, you know, your kids if you got them,

they make funny faces if you’re trying toget them to eat brussel sprouts. but you know, i'll tell you guys how you could easily getthe brussel sprouts in you so you guys could get the health benefits from them, you know,have more phytochemicals, phytonutrients. phytochemicals that are going to keep youyoung, keep disease at bay and you know, give you more energy that you need to get everythingthat you need to get done during the day. i'm going to show you guys the easiest waypossible you guys could do that, you know. i have been on a healthy lifestyle path nowfor twenty years. this is my twentieth year anniversary. i started in 1995 on this pathand i've been growing food for 10+ years now, so i have a wealth of knowledge that i loveto share with you guys so that i could make

the world a better place one person at a time.in any case, let's start this journey. i'm going to head down to my garden and startsharing with you guys some of the techniques, plants, and all this kind of cool stuff sothat you guys too can be growing your greens. so now i'm back on the ground. i'm going toshare with you guys just, you know, some of the places i grow my greens, but more importantlyhow important greens are to you, you know, for your personal health but also planetaryhealth. this is one side or one half of my back yard.it has these concrete block raised beds, about six different sized concrete block raisedbeds. this one's about 4 feet by about 16 feet and has over a hundred heads of lettucegrowing inside there. i have one behind with

things like broccoli, cauliflower and cabbagein there, plus some sugar snap peas growing at the trellises behind that. i have evenmore greens growing. and in general i like to grow greens in the winter, fall and springseason when they do the best. in the middle of the heat in summer, well, anyways, thesegreens don't produce well. although i have found ones that do that i will share withyou guys in a just a little bit. so now i'm going to talk about the healthbenefits of the leafy greens. i mean, even since we were young we might have watchedpopeye on the tube tv, not our youtube, on tv. and, you know, how he was so strong becausehe ate his spinach, and you know, i think that's an excellent good message to get outto kids and even more so adults. you know

the fact of the matter is clear that americansare not eating their fruits and vegetables. most americans they get two servings a day,and to be optimally healthy, you know, they recommend five to seven. but even more so,you know, there is research that comes out to, you know, have a longer life expectancyand to reduce, you know, the percentage of chance that you'll get cancer is to eat morefruits and vegetables. and i like to focus on the leafy greens. because leafy greensare, you know, one of the most powerful plant foods in the whole entire planet. they arerich in different phytonutrients and phytochemicals. they basically are anti-cancerous, you know,and anti-ageing. so if you want to stay young, have more energy, greens are definitely theway to go.

next i want to kind of dive in to, you know,some of the reasons why the greens are so important to me. so the top reason why thegreens and other fruits and vegetables are so important to me is because i almost lostmy life. and i know many of you guys probably may not have had this happen to you, or someof you guys may have had, you know, life threatening illnesses where you were hospitalised andthe doctors told you that you might not make it out alive. and this is simply what happenedto me at a young age, you know, right when i was out of college. i graduated college,had my whole life ahead of me, i was stricken with spinal meningitis, which is, you know,in many cases a fatal disease. i was hospitalised. i woke up in intensive care because i hadpassed out. and i was like whoa where am i,

and didn't even know where i was. and i askedthe doctor, hey doc when am i going to get out of here? and then he said the news thatnobody ever wants to hear, especially when you, you know, when you're in your twentiesjust graduated college, he said you might not make it out of here. and first thing ithought was oh shit that's not cool. you know, but i had a lot of time to think when i wasin the hospital. i was like you know john what's really important right now? i was likeif you had a million dollars, if you had that nice fancy car that you always wanted, ifyou were married and had kids, is that all that important right now? you know nothingwould be more important at that point of time than simply my health, because i was aboutto lose my health and it became evident to

me at a young age that without my health,without anybody's health you're nothing. i mean, you're not here, if you're not healthyyou're not here, i mean, you're sick , you're diseased, you know, you're not able to walk,i mean, whatever, life's no fun. so at a young age it really was important to me that thehealth is the most important thing. you know i don't care about money and all these thingsas much as people value them in society today. but i learned that without my health you haveabsolutely nothing. so that kind of got me, you know, starting this whole journey of learningabout health, about eating healthy foods, and about literally growing the healthiestfoods on the planet. and that's simply what i'm sharing with you guys. i mean, i'm reallyexcited about this because this to me is truly

the answer to health care is changing yourdiet, eating more fruits and vegetables to prevent and reduce your chances of gettingcancer in the first place, instead of getting cancer and then trying to find the magic bookto heal cancer. why not just eat the foods that are going to make you more resilientand give you a less chance of cancer? which are simply the fresh fruits and fresh vegetables,including the leafy greens. i mean, there is products out there like, you know, processedfood products and you know, even things like eating animal products in excess will increaseyour percentage of getting cancer. whereas, you know, healthy vegetables grown in yourgarden will reduce the percentage of cancer. now i don't know about you but i, one of thethings that i, you know, don't want is cancer.

and i want to encourage everybody out thereto eat a, you know, cancer preventive diet instead of worrying about the drugs or thechemo therapy or whatever after you get cancer to try to cure it, right. "an ounce of preventionis worth ten pounds of cure" is one of the sayings that i've heard. and that's why iliterally i teach you guys how to grow the best stuff. i'm not wasting my time with growinganimals because they are, you know, intensive in their resources, you have to feed themso that you could eat them. i'm just growing stuff that's really easy to grow. they don'ttalk back, they don't bite back, they're not like having second kids, you know, that youactually have to take care of and manage and make sure they're not eating your vegetablesand all this stuff, right. it's just far easier

to grow greens and they're far more, you know,beneficial. there’s many studies out on the phytochemicals and phytonutrient propertiesof the leafy greens. broccoli sprouts are anti-cancer, and onion and garlic family plants,or you know, have cancer fighting compounds. and every different leafy green, you know,i'm growing a diversity here, i'm not just growing all lettuce, right. you know, everydifferent leafy green has different phytochemicals and phytonutrients that the plants are makingfor their benefit, you know. some of these nutrients protect the plant from bugs, protectthem from environmental stressors, whether that's , you know, the sun or you know, diseaseor whatever. and then when we eat these plants, right, we're getting those beneficial phytonutrientsand phytochemicals and anti-oxidants in us.

and this is something that animal productssimply do not have. so i know you might be thinking, john you'vegot a hundred heads of lettuce in there man, that's insane, that's like how are you goingto eat all that lettuce, right. so what i strive to do in my diet is maximize the amountof fruits and vegetables that i'm eating and minimize all the other things that i'm eating.so this means like if you're still eating animal products, and i'll never tell you guyswhat you should or shouldn't eat, but i will tell you guys how i've been living and whathas been working for me. and that's to massively increase the amount of fruits and vegetablesi eat. and yes while this may be enough to feed a family or even an army, which i'lltalk about in a second, you know, i'll eat

like four of these smaller heads of lettuce,you know, for dinner a day. and even more so, you know, i like to juice and blend themand then i could really up my intake of these protective foods, you know, to get them into me so i could get the benefits out of them. i mean that's super important. most peoplelike a serving of lettuce is like a small side salad on their big piece of stake. imean, i think america has got that completely backwards. we need to eat small amounts ofmeat, if you choose to do that, and large portions of salads and leafy greens, vegetablesand other fruits for optimal health. in fact, i mean, there are studies out there that provethat, you know, the more fruits and vegetables you eat, the longer you're going to live,you know. so minimally, you know, i recommend

ten servings of fresh fruits and fresh vegetablesa day. and of course, when you're growing them yourself why not eat all this stuff?because it's the best food on earth and you could literally grow it for free. in addition, you know, of course there is the cancer and disease fighting properties of the vegetablesand the fruits and the leafy greens, as well as the anti-ageing properties. i mean we'reall struggling to, you know, keep our youth as long as possible. and in my opinion, thefruits and vegetables will allow you to do just that.so another reason why i like to grow my leafy greens instead of other foods i could possiblybe growing is because it's one of the easiest things to grow. i mean, if you guys saw previouslyin the summit, katrina blair basically harvests

wild weeds that just grow in cracks of sidewalksand will grow up literally anywhere man has disturbed the soil. and, i mean, some of theseweeds and leafy greens i grow will grow super simple super easy, literally throw the seedsout, maybe it even rains, it waters it and it grows, you know. you don't have to payattention, you don't have to babysit it, super simple, super easy. in addition, you know,instead of growing something like tomatoes where you actually have to grow the plant,it has to make the greens first and then actually has to have the flowers, and then the flowershave to get pollinated and then it has to set the fruit, you know, that's a bit longer.whereas once you've got some greens growing, as soon as the first set of two leaves appearyou could actually pluck it and eat it. those

are actually called, you know, sprouts ormicrogreens. if you let them grow longer, you know, at any stage the leafy greens areprime time to be eaten. you can harvest them at any time. yes, even when they're flowering,although they can get a bit stronger and more bitter. so that's why i prefer my younger,more tender leafy greens that i'm growing here. so yeah the requirement for growingthe leafy greens is super simple, super easy. i mean, basically they just need a few things-sun, soil and water, right. that's all you need. and i'm going to talk a special segmentabout the soil, because you know, soil is not the same as dirt, and it's very importantto have the proper kind and the best kind of soil mixture you can to grow your babies.i mean, just like if, you know, the environment

that we're growing up in, you know, is basicallyhow we turn out, right. and you know, the better environment we have as a child if we'renurtured better and all this stuff, we're going to be healthier human beings in theend. and same thing with our plants, you know. it kind of makes me sad in some cases wherei see people just throwing in their back yard dirt without doing any amendments, and puttingsome chemical fertilizers in there, you know, some miracle crap or something. while thatway will work, right, it's not going to grow you the highest quality most resilient, mostgenetically fully expressed plant that you could possibly have, in my opinion. so yeah,i’m going to cover that in just a little bit. but yeah, super simple, super easy togrow your greens.

another reason why i like to grow my greensis simply because it's the most nutrient dense food on the planet. i'll repeat that- it'sthe most nutrient dense food on the planet. what does this mean? does it mean it's thebest? well, in my opinion, it's one of the best foods in the entire planet. so the nutrientdensity index or the andi scoring charts, stands for aggregate nutrient density index,was created by dr joel fuhrman. he has a really excellent book called "eat to live" that youmay want to look up. i would recommend his dietary approach above all the others thati've seen to this date, and i follow something very similar to what he recommends, althoughi do it a little differently/better in my opinion. and basically what he's done is he'sgone through all the different foods and he's

ranked them for calories to nutrients andput them on a chart. because you know, one thing is clear, you know, all this talk oflongevity and how to live the longest, one of the things that always proves to be trueis that the less calories you eat the longer you're going to live, right. so, the greensare the most nutritious plants that have the most vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals andphytonutrients with the least amount of calories. so this encourages longevity plus you alsoget the benefit of the anti-oxidants to stay young because the phytochemicals and phytonutrientsthey're going to help ward off disease so that you'll be healthier than the next person.so, you know, it's really cool that even george washington, you know, back in the day whenhe had the soldiers and all this stuff, he

told his soldiers, you know, in the campsto go around and harvest some of the wild weeds that are out there, such as sow thistleand what not, and eat those every day because they'll basically ward away disease. i mean,that's simply what i'm teaching today and you know, george washington, amazing guy,and you know i think we should definitely heed his words and eat some greens every day,specially if you're a solider. because most of the time you're getting mres that are notfresh and have much less nutrition in my opinion than, you know, fresh greens or weeds thatyou could find in the field. i mean, another amazing things about greens,right, you need very little to grow them, right. you need very little. they’re soeasy.

so my top reason for the greens being so importantto me and my diet and teaching you guys how to grow them is because of the number oneanti-disease food, you know. i don't know if you guys have been paying attention lately,but disease and cancer and diabetes and heart disease and all these other diseases, youknow, that are plaguing americans today in my opinion, are strongly correlated with thediet you're eating. so if you eating junk foods you're going to have a junky immunesystem, and you're going to be more apt to get some kind of crazy disease, you know.so my goal, once again, is to be proactive in my approach and eat the foods, you know,that are going to prevent disease, you know, and that have active phytonutrients and phytochemicalsthat have been shown to prevent disease. i

mean, there's no nutrients in chicken, forexample, that will ward off disease. actually it's shown that eating animal products includingmeats will increase your chances of getting cancer. whereas eating the leafy greens andother plant foods will decrease your amount of cancer. so you know, i'm not one to likereally mess around with products that don't work or diets that don't work. so i'm justthinking what the best diet on earth, of the leafy greens, so that i do not end up in thehospital again. because what the doctors told me is that, i said why did i get the spinalmeningitis, when i was leaving the hospital, the doctors said john you have what's calledcomplement immune deficiency. and what that is, to sum it up pretty quickly, for thoseof you guys that, it maybes dates me a little

bit, that watched the boy in the bubble movie,maybe that's even on, you know, netflix these days, with john travolta. basically it's aboy that had to live in a bubble and if he was outside the bubble he would lose his life,and all this stuff. because his immune system was so weak, like maybe like over on thisside being real weak and then an average person is like really strong. and i'm like maybesomewhere in the middle. so because i had a chronically depressed immune system, basedon what the doctors said, i did really pay attention and eat good food so that i wouldn'tget sick again, and you know my disease prevention is not taking drugs and pharmaceutical drugsor getting addicted to any kind of drugs, but to eat literally nature's medicine. andi mean, hippocrates, the famous philosopher,

said "let food be thy medicine and medicinesbe thy food". and that's simply what i'm doing by eating the most, you know, medicinallycharged medicine in the entire world, which is simply the leafy greens. and that's whati want for every one of you guys out there too. if you don't get anything else from thisepisode, just start including more leafy greens in your diet and you will be healthy becauseof it, i guarantee it. so why are the leafy greens and other plantfoods so beneficial for us? it's because they contain different properties in the food,such as, you know, the licopene, the zeaxanthin, the lutein, the anti-oxidants, the phytochemicals,the phytonutrients, sulforaphane, you know, there's all these different compounds thatthey've discovered in foods and many of them

are not even researched. i mean, even thecannabinoids it’s in the, you know, the hemp or the cannabis plant, that are beneficialwhen eaten in the raw state that have no psychoactive effects. i mean, what i'm for is i'm for eatingall plants that will decrease you know, level of disease that people may get, and i'm allfor making it legal and you know, outline things that will make people unhealthy. becausethis is truly the answer to the sick care system we have is just once again prevention.and that's just really important to me, and that's why i make all my videos free becausei want to be the change in the world that i want to see. and i want to encourage everyone of you guys too, you know, to start spreading the knowledge of growing your own food andmore importantly eating the foods you grow

before you spend any money at the grocerystore, you know. so, you know, i try to grow as much food as i can and get as much of thisstuff into me as possible. and yes, i still need to buy food at the grocery store becauseon you know, fifty two hundred square feet i'm not able to grow all the food i need.but i am able to grow all the greens and all the, most of the vegetables i need year roundeasily. and i know with my tips you guys will be able to do that too.reason number five why i like my greens as well as my fruits and vegetables is becausethe plant foods they make you happy. i mean, they have done studies where if you eat eightor more servings of fruits and vegetables a day, you will be happier than somebody whois not, you know. and with all these different

depressions and all these kids with all thesemessed up chemistries in their brain chemistry , you know, i think the messed up chemistriesis because simply people are not eating the right foods. and, you know, if you've everwatched my show and on my videos like i'm generally a happy guy, and that's not becausei'm token up on anything or smoking any using any drugs, because i don't believe in that.i just am high on life because i eat the foods that we're naturally designed to eat thatwill make us all happy and not depressed and not all angry. because by, you know, you eatingmeat with hormones in it and all that kind of stuff, right. so eat some fruits and vegetablesand be happy and enjoy your life more because of it.i think that the next thing i want to do now

is that i've shared with you guys some ofthe reasons why the greens are so important to me, i want to share with you guys someof the greens that i grow and that you may want to grow as well. i think the first ones,my favorite ones are actually my perennial vegetables that literally grow year roundand provide me with food 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 52 weeks in a year. so yeahlet's go and head over to the other side of the garden and i'll share with you guys whatthey are. so where i am now is on the other side ofmy garden where i basically just have four foot round circular raised beds that are maybeabout 8 inches deep and filled with a really good soil mix. and what we're looking at there,i don't know if you guys can see that, but

it's the big massive in between the yellowflowers on that side and the yellow flowers on that side. this is known as the perennialtree collards. so these are my green perennial tree collards. and as you guys can see, imean i'm far away from it right now but you could just see the massive scale, it's almostas tall as my overhang, you know, patio area. and that thing it towers at, you know, overten feet tall and it's not even going erect because like the stalk kind of bends. so itwould be taller if it was going straight up, you know. i have some more of those otherones right here hanging over. i mean those guys are taller than me, maybe pushing sevenfeet tall, and these are known as perennial vegetables. so perennial vegetables, in myopinion, are the smartest vegetables that

you guys could grow. because literally youplant them once and they'll continue to grow year after year, day after day, you know,literally forever. you know, unlike the standard vegetables that you may see on the side andwhat not, you know, they basically go to flower and seed and complete their life cycle. manyof them actually start over because once they go to flower and seed they pretty much that'sthe end of their life cycle, right. so, in general, the perennial tree collards don'tgo to seed and set seed unless you have some weird climatic conditions. so in some casesi have had both my purple tree collards, which are a little bit tastier than the green onesbut the green ones are more hardy, you know, set seed and then once they do, you know,go to flower, set the seed and finish setting

the seed. when they're done making the seedthey basically just the branch where the seed is set basically dry out. you cut them off,and then they basically continue to grow like it never set seed at all. whereas most common,you know, annual vegetable crops you have to actually grow them, you know, they go toseed like some of the bok choy and what not over here, and then basically it finishesup and it no longer makes the leaves. and you have to actually pull them and start over.so the perennial vegetables is much less work. and my favorite of all are the tree collards,both the purple kind there and the green kind that i am able to harvest year round in thismild climate. now these plants will tolerate small levels of frost but i haven't testedthem in full frost areas. and if i did live

in a frost area that got snow i would definitelybuild a greenhouse around them, maybe even a double green house, you know, or doublehoop house. and you know, the crop will be fine at that point. the other thing you mightwant to do if you want to grow these in a climate where you get snow is throw them ina big pot, bring them in the garage, you know, bring them in to your sunny window sill sothey don't get too cold in the winter time. so you guys could keep them year round. nowin general these guys are propagated by the cuttings. so you just take the cutting, youstick it into the ground and they root right up. i've had successes of 95% plus by justtaking cutting, sticking them in a raised bed that is getting watered. then they basicallyjust come up. i mean it's super simple, super

easy, you know. the occasional times thati have had, they have gone to seed , and i do save the seeds when the seeds drop, andthey grow out. they are not through to seed completely, although there's many characteristicsof the tree collards in the new crops. you know, the seeds that were produced so thatone, that original one, and then the ones over here, i don't know if you guys can seethem but they're actually from seed drops. so i had some flowering kale and cabbage thatare nice and ornamental, and somehow that crops planted with my green tree collards,and now i have some really pretty ornamental green tree collards that have really coollooking leaves on it. and, you know, have been growing pretty much perennially but nowthey have a strong tendency to go to flower.

so it's going to be interesting to see whathappens after they go to flower, set seeds, and if they continue to produce leaves orif they fizzle out. yeah so grow some perennial vegetables.let's get into some of the perennial vegetables that i like to grow in my garden year round.oh look at that now are some plants that i have actually had to dig up, you know, overthe winter and put in a little greenhouse so they would stay warmer. because these aretropical perennial leafy green vegetables. and these are just two of many i have researchedin the past. and if you guys live somewhere in the tropics like south florida, maybe likebrownsville, texas, san padre island or maybe in places like san diego, southern california,you may be able to grow some of these guys

year round. and these are the easiest vegetablesto grow and also they taste so good and there's many different medicinal properties to them.and so these i'll be planting out really soon again in my garden. we're not past the officialfrost day yet but we probably won't get any frost. today is like in the 70s and laterthis week it's supposed to be in the 80s. so that's really cool.but what we have here are two of my favorite perennial leafy green tropical style plants.one, this one is known as the gynura procumbens, and i do have episodes on all these. i'm notgoing to really go into a lot of detail on these guys. but it's like a nice, you know,perennial leafy green that is a nice mild flavor that's been used traditional for healing,for literally thousands of years. this next

one is actually known as the okinawan spinach.it has actually a purple on the bottom. and it's a little bit dry, i need to water thisguy. but this is another perennial leafy green vegetable that can be grown year round, youknow. and if you live in a place where it gets cold in the winter you're definitelygoing to want to bring this in. you know, basically i just dig up the big root bulb,put it in a pot, put it in my green house, this is an unheated greenhouse but it's stillin my greenhouse, it stays quite warm. so if you're growing this in a climate that doeshave snow you're going to definitely want to bring it in and keep it warm. because theseguys really do not like the cold. i mean, there's all different kinds of perennial leafygreen vegetables, you know. and i've had to

learn and research and try new and differentones to grow in the desert to see which ones will do fine in the desert heat that can bein excess of a 100 degrees and low humidity, you know, for literally weeks if not likemonths on end in the summer time. and these are two proven winters that they're workingfor me. i guess the last perennial leafy green vegetablethat i want to share with you guys is actually over in the shady area. and i want to encourageyou guys to use all the different micro climates that you have and just think oh man john igot a shady spot man, this sucks because you're supposed to grow in full sun. well, some cropsactually like, you know, shade more than the full sun. so i use that and exploit that tomy advantage to grow some crops that might

not normally grow in full sun by using thisshade. and of course they don't grow quite as fast, but they grow well. so let's headover and i'll share with you guys what i've got.so the last perennial leafy greens in my climate that i want to share with you guys is probablyone of the most powerful and unknown leafy green vegetables that i believe you guys shouldbe eating on a regular day. i mean, they have specific studies that show this guy righthere, this is known as the ashitaba or angelica keiskei. a special kind of angelica with specialproperties that has been grown in hachijo island in japan , that has a rich volcanicsoil. and is basically, literally a wild food that has been grown and cultivated, that thejapanese have been eating for thousands of

years now. and i'm glad i finally got someseeds and i'm able to grow it now. and i mean, this just even in the hot desert environmenthere and it's under a shady spot, maybe gets some indirect sun as you guys can see, it'sgrowing quite well. it's super vibrant and super healthy. and this is a really healingleafy green, even probably more so than the other ones i've already shared with you guys.plus it is a real mild flavor. i mean , the reason why i like it, and we're just goingto go ahead and break off a stem here for you guys, if we go ahead and cut a stem, andthen we just leave it for a little bit, and this is a little baby stem. and i always encourageyou guys to eat your baby greens are always more tender and that's ones you should alwaystake for the salads and if you want to eat

some of the larger ones, you know, those arebetter to be blended or juiced, which we'll show you guys in a little bit. but if youlook very closely, i don't know if you guys could see that, it's starting to bleed andyou know, if you cut us we bleed red, if you cut the ashitaba it actually bleeds yellow.and these, the yellow is known as the chalcones. and these are very, you know, basically plantprotective nutrients that's like anti-disease for us. and this, in my opinion, is somethingamericans are not getting every day in their diet. you know, literally eating anti-cancerplants that are you know rich in chalcones. mmmm, wow quite good. little bit bitter today,tastes kind of like celery, depending on where you grow it, how the climate is, i've hadit taste real mild. kind of reminds me of

like between some, this bite here remindsme of some celery, and dandelion at the same time. so that's quite interesting. normallyi have had this and it's really quite mild in my other garden. but none the less, youknow, glad to get some anti-cancer and anti-disease properties out of the food that i'm able togrow in my back yard anywhere instead of having to take drugs. so delicious! yeah, the ashitaba,one of my top picks, i do have an episode dedicated to the ashitaba. the seeds can bedifficult to find. but i want to encourage all you guys out there to grow it if you'reserious about being healthy. alright, next these are just some of the perennialsi have. and i probably have a few other perennials that i could share with you guys, but i wantedto get more into the annual crops. and these

are the crops that, you know, many peopleare more familiar with, the plants that you have to actually plant, harvest and then re-plant.so you know, i want to give you some close up shots of my lettuce, and my brassica bedand my mixed bed. and then also go over to share like my three top vegetable crops thatyou should grow and that are easiest to grow no matter where you live.alright, so i like to grow different crops in different areas of my garden. and, youknow, i like to grow different plants for different reasons, you know. number one, ialways encourage you guys to grow a variety of crops. and i will be sharing with you guysmy three top crops you could grow that are super simple, super easy. you know, i alsothink once you graduate from some of these

crops, you move on to grow different things, you know, like for example, take a look at my lettuce bed. i'll go ahead and giveyou a hand shot of that. i mean, i've grown over a hundred heads of lettuce, mixed varietieslike about half a dozen different varieties in one four foot by sixteen foot bed. thenext bed i have things like broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage growing with the sugar snap peasgrowing up a trellis. and then finally i have a bed of lettuce and napa type cabbage, arugulaand some kale in yet another bed. but you know, those are fun to play with, they alsotend to bolt fairly fast, which means they are high maintenance. so it's like that girlfriendyou might have went after and went out with, that always had to do her makeup, right, beforeyou went out. and she'd waste a half hour

and do her makeup, right, instead of justgoing out and having fun. and yeah i guess there's a point to make and all that stuff,but i'm kind of a more pragmatic guy myself. so i'm glad my girlfriend doesn't wear makeupactually at all. she doesn't need it either. but anyways these guys here, these are kindof like low maintenance girlfriend like the girl i ended up with and hopefully i evenmarry. this is known as the dinosaur kale. and the dinosaur kale i like it because it'sa really resilient crop, specially here in the desert, it could do well in drier climates.and i don't know if you guys could see this but i've even got, you know, dinosaur kaletrees here that are a bit tall. i mean, these ones were planted this season, just a fewmonths ago. and this guy is like over a year

old at this point, you know, he's been growingfor an entire year, he hasn't gone to flower or set seed and he's been producing food forme for literally the last year. so i mean, imagine investing in a plant like a lettuceplant that you'll grow for maybe, i don't know, 45 days and then it's done. you gotto pull it, you got to re-plant and all this kind of stuff. or you could plant some dinosaurkale that are going to be almost a perennial. and this of course depends on your climate.and the dinosaur kale leaves, i love them a lot, because they are dark and rich green,which is rich in chlorophyll which is very similar to our blood. and it's said that chlorophyllrich foods help detoxify us in this age of all these environmental talks and in the chemtrails and in the water you drink and in the

who knows what else, you know, the beautycare products you use. you know the leaves are super detoxifying so that they'll keepyou healthy. and the dinosaur kale, one of the easiest things to grow, that will growfor a long season, you know, based on my experience without having to do a lot of maintenanceand caring after it. so the next crop you want to grow if you wantto have another low maintenance crop, and this is another one that grows minimum fora year for me in most instances and actually sets its own seeds, the seeds drop and thenthey come up randomly in my garden. and that's the kind of garden i want to have . it's literallycalled a hands off garden. where you actually just let nature do all the work and let themreproduce themselves that you don't have to

sit there and plant things like i've plantedin this whole area, i've planted onions, you know. but i have this plant here that's actuallyshaded out some of my onions, it's just come up on it's own and you know, it's a volunteerplant and i just didn't have the heart to pull it out because it is making some amazingfood for me. and look at this, what we have here, some nice swiss chard, nice large leavesand this is another crop that's very resilient and can be grown in many places. this happensto be like a standard green swiss chard. i have like a red one, a pink one and differentcolors coming up all over the garden, you know, literally as weeds that i actually didnot plant. so yeah, you know, this is yet another crop you can grow, you know, supersimple, super easy. and besides just using

the leaves which you can actually juice up,eat in salads or what not, i like to also use the large leaves as wraps, you know, thetop green part; and then the lower stalk part i like to use as celery. it's very high inthe minerals, has a nice salty flavor and can you know, spice up some foods when youwant a little bit of salt without adding actually additional salt, that in my opinion to haveamounts is not a good thing. and most processed foods have far too much salt. and i want toencourage you guys to eat more plant foods and eat some swiss chard that has a nice saltyflavor without the additional, you know, sick shaken on the salt in your diet so you couldget healthier. so the last crop i want to share with youguys that's super simple, super easy to grow

and not because it lasts a long time but becauseit's like pretty much like you go out to a bar, you meet a girl, you have fun with herthat night, then you take off you never see her again or she doesn't even know your name.many of you guys have done that. i don't think i've ever done that actually. but this plantis like, i don't know like, it's like a really, a crop that you could actually plant a seedand then it will grow pretty quick, provide you with some food and then it's gone, youknow. and then you got to start over. but in general, to fast forward, it produces copiousamounts of greens and some good food. plus it's nice and spicy, kind of like that latinagirl i used to go out with. and this is actually known as the arugula. so arugula, anotherreally easy to grow crop you can grow quickly

and easily, and then you just got to keepreplanting. i mean, the amazing thing about arugula is because it does , you know, it'sstarted to go to seed here on me, here's some bigger ones here, it actually will make seeds,drop seeds and then they'll all just actually start coming up, you know, wild in your garden.you'll have basically arugula forever. and then you'll think it's dumb that people buyone pound of arugula, you know spring mix boxes or whatever, for like 6 to 8 bucks inthe store. super simple to grow, amazing flavor and it's something that i think all you guysshould at least put a few leaves in your salad to give it that, give it a little bit of spice.and you all know what that is if you go out with a latin girl.so now that i've shared with you guys my top

3 plants to grow, i want to talk about thesoil, you know. here's the bed that actually there is going to bolt to early planting ofmy broccoli and what not. and you know, i'm digging up the soil and adding new soil. soilis not the same as dirt and the health of your plants comes down to the health of thesoil. and even in many organic gardening practices, you know , there are things being done thati may not necessarily agree with based on , you know, my research, my experience andactually going around and visiting farms and seeing what truly works and what's actuallymore sustainable than not. and more importantly for me, enabling me to grow the highest qualityplants, you know. as you guys know i garden to growing my greens for my health. i'm notgrowing my greens for fun, you know, for enjoyment

or to sell. i'm growing them so that i canhave the highest level of health and have the highest level of nutrients in the foodsi'm growing that then will transfer into me so i could be more disease resistant. youknow, myself as will my plants if they're grown with all the nutrients they need, right.and so that's what i strive to teach. and now i'm going to share with you guys threenutrients, you know, that should be added to your soil but you're probably not already.and this is quite sad, i mean, for a long time we're always told there's organic gardeners.we need to use compost, compost, compost. and yes, compost is king and some of thesethings that i'm going to share with you guys are literally queens of getting good growth.and besides just the bacterial dominated,

they're only base compost, there’s alsoa fungally dominated compost that's not often talked about. and i visited a garden thati made an episode on where literally, you know, in this garden they had, you know, dinosaurkale leaves larger than my head. and the only reason i could explain this is because oneof the nutrients that i'm sharing with you guys next but also the fungal dominated compost,that's imperative because that thing, that's one of the key that's missing in this dayand age. although i'm not going to get into it in this short presentation i have today.be sure to check my youtube channel for more episodes on specifically what i put in mysoil, because i do use more than this. but these are the basics, the keys that i believeevery one of you guys watching should be using

to grow your greens, fruits and vegetablesand even forage crops if you're growing forage crops. because yes, it will make a difference.alright, so when i put any soil blend together i just generally use things like compost.i don't add a lot of worm castings in there, you know. obviously my goal is to get wormsin my garden and i have plenty of worms in my garden, you know, basically breaking down,you know, root matter that's in the ground and you know other fibre and all these thingsin the ground, they're breaking it down, making more nutrients for our plants. but i alsobelieve that by adding certain kinds of worm castings can be quite beneficial. and notall worm castings are treated equal, much like not all hamburgers are treated equallyyou know. a hamburger at mcdonalds is bottom

of the bunch, yeah but in that burger youmight know that those are higher quality. not that i recommend eating hamburgers. butyou guys know what i mean. and so the worm gold plus worm castings are some of the mostefficient and best worm castings that i've seen. they have documented studies that willbasically these worm castings will increase your yield up to 400%. and you know, that'scompletely insane and that's because these worms are fed a special diet and i have anepisode where i talk to the owner of this company and the engineer that figured it outand formulates this, and figured out what to feed his worms. so i'm not going to getinto that in this episode. but yeah know that the worm gold plus are my favorite worm castings.now whether you want to add these directly

to your soil, that's great. you could alsouse this as a base to make your own compost teas, which is yet another way to get thenutrients into your soil, more specifically the biologic. and that's what i teach. i don'tjust teach organic gardening using organic fertilizers out of a bag, which in most casesare actually manure based or animal product based which i think are not the best thingsto use. you know i'm teaching you guys organic biologic gardening. you know, where we'rereally using biology to our advantage. and if you think about it, you know, in a forestsystem, right, they're not spraying even organic fertilizers down or chemical fertilizers,right. there's basically even in just this handful of soil here there's more microbesin this soil than there are people on the

earth easily. and it's these microbes thatbreak down old woody decayed matter, the old roots in the soil and they turn it into nutrientsfor the plants. and this is what drives the system. and so the worm castings to me areliterally full of the biology that drives my whole system, my whole organic gardeningstyle, to produce nutrients for my plants instead of feeding them a water soluble nutrientlike many fertilizers are. now besides just the biology, another thingthat's missing, in my opinion, of the soils of today, and i've seen this time and timeagain when i use these supplements in my soil was simply trace minerals. so here we havethe cascade trace minerals. and this is a varied source of trace minerals. it's notthat this is just magnesium or not just a

calcium or not just an iron, you know, ithas a whole spectrum of minerals. some different rock dust contains like 70 different traceminerals all in small and varying amounts, you know. and the soils are degraded of theirminerals in this day and age because the, you know, top soil degradation due to improperfarming practices, improper tilling practices, you know, and all the run off going into theoceans, all this kind of stuff. that's why i like to add the rock dust, you know, whetherit's the cascade minerals, the azomite, or you know, the elamites, i mean they're differentbrands that are out there, you know, super important, super critical. because with thetrace minerals, you know, we're feeding not only the plants but also the microbes in thesoil that go nuts for this stuff. so you'll

increase your microbial count in your soil,which are literally your workers that are making food for your plants, super important,super critical. aside from the rock dust, another way i liketo get my minerals in, because i think it is so important as i mentioned you know, thetop soils are degraded and all the minerals have been washed out into the ocean. i liketo use an ocean solution. whether that's the sea-90 agricultural minerals i have here,or another water based, you know, ocean solution, ocean grown you know product. super importantand, you know, besides just spraying that in the little root zone. and it's very importantwhen using the sea minerals to get the proper dilution ratio because yes these do containsome sodium and too much sodium for us as

well as our plants could really not be a goodthing. and, you know, i like to do this maybe like once every two weeks. i like to do asoil trans plus a foliar feed. so i'll spray it on , you know , the plants, on the leavestops and bottoms of the leaves, and in general i like to do the foliar feed in the eveningbefore the sundown, you know. that way i find it gets the most level of uptake. and literallyour plants will respond by feeding them trace minerals because, you know, the weakest linkin a plant is a nutrient it's not getting. and standard agricultural science, which youknow i'm not a scientist, i didn't graduate from horticulture school as i mentioned, youknow. they say oh your plants need sixteen nutrients or minerals , you know, or whateverto grow. and, you know, why did god, nature,

whomever put, you know, 70 to 90 differentminerals in the ocean solutions and in trace minerals, you know, if plants don't need those,right? and i want to use these, i'm not the scientist so i don't know what ratios to putthem in. i'm just putting them in nature's ratios into my plants. and i have seen andmany of my viewers have seen, you know, time and time again the plants are more healthy,they're more disease resistant, they're more nutritious, they taste better, they grow larger,you know. all these things they're only a benefit. and if you're sceptical about thisbecause you never heard about this before, you know, that's cool. all i would ask isthat you guys try it. try it in one raised bed. try some of the things that i recommendin one raised bed and don't do it in the rest

of your garden. i don’t care, grow someof the same crops and see the difference and see the yield difference, see the health , theplant difference. i mean, the whole goal for me in growing biologic organic gardening isto have the healthiest plants. because much like us, right, if you're healthy and youhave a strong immune system and you're eating foods that prevent and fight disease and yougo on to an airplane where everybody's sick and they got some disease or coughing, you'renot going to get sick because we all have built in immune systems. and plants in myopinion in this day and age, especially plants growing in the, you know, agriculture andindustrialized agriculture, right, they're not as healthy as they can be because they'renot really focussing on plant health. they’re

focussing on like a number, they're makingproduce,, they're growing produce so that they can chop it , sell it and make some money.and, you know, in most cases, they just want to have the plant alive long enough so thatthey could sell it and they could make a buck, right. whereas you guys at home could do alittle bit differently and hopefully do it better. and that's what i share on my channel,and you know this is all what i have learnt through trial and error over the many yearsthat i’ve been doing this. and nobody else i know has my specific experience and my levelof detail and my common words that i use because i'm not a scientist, you know, but i haveaccess to people that i interview all the time that i’m learning from, that i canalso share with you guys.

so now that i shared with you guys the top3 easy greens to grow, the top 3 nutrients that you want to add to your soil and to yourgarden, i'm now going to share with you guys 3 ways to use the crops that you're growingto increase your health. so now this is the part that i'm most excited about sharing withyou guys how i use my greens. because i know many of you guys have been growing greensfor so long and don't know how to use them. so, you know, there's so many different waysyou could use them. i'll mention some of those, you know, in this next clip and i'm goingto share with you guys my top 3 favorite ways to include more leafy greens in your diet.because you're growing them, right, but how do you use them, how do you get them intoyou so that you can derive the health benefits

from them? so in any case we're looking atmy bed with the lots of different lettuce and some arugula and some chinese napa cabbage.and what i'm going to do now is i'm going to make a juice and we're going to basicallyjuice some greens out of my garden, cucumbers, some apples. i've got one recipe. so juicingis really excellent, we'll talk more about that in a little bit. and then the secondrecipe we're going to make is we're going to use the blender to make what’s calleda green smoothie. and for that actually we're going to go ahead and harvest some of thesearugula leaves. they’re a nice and hot and spicy flavor. and we're going to harvest someof my very own tree collards. so i'm going to go ahead and harvest some of these cabbagegreens and we'll get it over at the juicer

set up in the green house. i'll show you guyshow to do it. so now i'm going to share with you guys mytwo top favorite ways to utilise, you know, the foods i eat, including the greens frommy garden. number one top way above all others has to be juicing here. you know i have allkinds of different greens from my garden. i have copious amounts and, you know, insteadof buying food at the grocery store, i want to grow my own. you know it is quite hardand difficult to eat so many greens. so that's why i like a juicer. we have here the omegavsj843 juicer. this is called the slow juicer. so the slow juicers maximize nutrition andgive you a, you know, good quality, high quality juice with the minimal oxidation due to lowspeed. in addition, these are auger style

machines, which is what this is, and usesa single auger. it literally crushes and squeezes all the nutrients as a juice leaving the fibrebehind. and there are pros and cons to consuming fibre in your diet. i mean if you guys arestill eating animal products there's no fibre in animal products, you know. so it's probablygood you consume some fibre in that sense. i eat, you know, plenty of fresh fruits andvegetables that contain plenty of fibre. so i get plenty of fibre in my diet.and i like to juice about once a day to remove the fibre, because when you remove the fibre,you make all the nutrients in the produce more available so that your body can uptakeit better. there are studies that show, you know, compared to like a blender, the slowjuicer will extract and have 50% more cancer

fighting power in broccoli for example. youknow, blending is still good and i'm going talk about that in a second. but juicing isthe best of all. so, you know, juicing really concentrates. i mean, this is like almosta dozen leaves. i got ten leaves here that i harvested out of my garden just now. andthis will allow me to get the nutrients out of ten leaves into me without eating all thisextra fibre. so i guess that's what we're going to do next. we're going to go aheadand juice the ten cabbage leaves. we're going to juice one cucumber and two apples for somesweetness, all through the omega vsj juicer. alright, we just got out all this stuff cutup, now we're just going to go ahead and turn this machine on and let the juicer do themagic.

one of the things i like about the omega vsj843juicer is that it's actually quite quiet. it's not like one of the high speed juicersthat sounds like an airplane taking off in your kitchen as it has been described to me.i do want to give you guys a disclaimer, you know, for a living i do sell juicers, youknow. so i teach you guys how to grow your own food and i sell the appliances that willallow you to get these healthy foods in to your life. you know, so if you want to supportme in my work, you know, you can do that by supporting me in buying a juicer from me whichwill also support your health, in my opinion. and you could do that at discountjuicers.comso what we're doing now is we're simply just putting in a handful of each of the differentitems. we're rotating the items so the juicer

likes different textures being put throughit. so a little bit of the leaves, a little bit of apple, and then we'll follow that bya cucumber. and then as you guys can see we've got that delicious juice coming right out,all the phytochemicals and phytonutrients out of the juice into an easy to assimilateform for us. i'm going to go ahead and continue making the rest of this juice. and will beback at you when i'm done. so i’m just about to juice the last handfulof cabbage here, fresh picked from my garden. and every one of these different plant foodshas different properties. and when i got into juicing in the 1990s i heard jay kordich,the father of juicing , you know, teach me something. he said he worked with dr garnettchaney at stanford university with juicing

cabbage and giving that to the patients. andif the patients drank the cabbage juice, you know, within minutes after making, you know,it would heal their ulcers, which is completely amazing. but if they juice sat around thenit wouldn't have the same beneficial effect, you know. so for that reason i recommend youguys you know, juice a wide variety of leafy greens from your garden which may have different,you know, benefits for you. but more importantly, drink it as soon as you can after you makeit. i guess the final thing we're going to go ahead and put in here is the cucumber andlet it juice right out. now you know, i've made plenty of nasty juices in my time, soi'd like to share with you guys a recipe that's always going to be tried and true and workedfairly well, and not taste gross, you know,

right. and so what i like to do is usuallyuse like a lot of celery or cucumbers which often times i have in my garden. in the summeri have plenty of cucumbers, and in the winter time i have plenty of celery.so we do a celery or cucumber base, which is the majority of the juice, maybe an appleor two for some sweetness and then do some leafy greens. and the amount of leafy greensyou do is based on you, you know. i did ten today because that's like where i am at. butif you're not used to the strong flavor of leafy greens you might want to put one ortwo in with all that celery or cucumber and apple. and that's going to dilute it down.of course, you could use celery, cucumber and apple, you know. or you could even substitutein carrots instead of the celery with the

cucumber. or sometimes i like to juice romainehearts, you know that's another good way to make a nice watery juice that's going to bemore agreeable to you instead of tastes bad. alright, and now we're going to go ahead andshut this juicer off, put this little cap down, and we got probably about 32 ouncesof fresh juice. i'm going to go ahead and pour that in a mason jar. look at that niceconsistency. we removed all the fibre, that's over here in the pulp container and this isgood to feed your worms or for your compost pile. and we're going to go ahead and drinkthis juice. mmmm, nice mild flavor. to me that almost tastes like you're drinking water.i mean, you get a little bit of sweetness because of the apples. the apples aren't supersweet, you know, the nice water and electrolytes

content from the celery, and of course youget all the phytonutrients and phytochemicals from the cabbage that i grew. so yeah, tohealth. so besides just juicing, which i believe isbetter than blending overall. blending does have a place in my diet. and i blend almostevery day as well, blending plenty of leafy greens. and what i want to share with youguys next is a very simple recipe called the green smoothie. you know this was a conceptmade popular by ann wigmore originally, and then victoria boutenko made it really hugeand really popular. and basically the green smoothie is basicallyblending something like some fruits, i got some bananas today, and some greens freshpicked from my garden and something as simple

as water. and so that's what we're going todo today. we're going to go ahead and first you know, put a bunch of filtered water inthe blender. you could also use something like coconut water. fill that up to like 500ml. we're going to go ahead and take a couple of ripe bananas. and for fun besides usingjust the standard grape, bananas, you could also use some frozen ripe bananas. so youbasically peel your bananas and then you'd actually freeze them and put them in the smoothieand that will give you a nice milk shake style consistency, and it will also make your smoothiecolder, you know. and that's especially nice on a hot summer day. so let's go ahead andput this ripe banana in here. we're going to put a total of 4 bananas, and once again,you know, these recipes are not like carved

in stone. you guys could adjust these. yougot 3 bananas hey use 3, you know, if you got 5 and you're really hungry you know puta few extra one in. so yeah, let’s see, let’s go ahead and throw this last bananain there. and then finally we're going to go ahead and add all our leafy greens. sowhen we add our leafy greens, i got about 10 tree collard leaves and a few arugula leaves.i like to basically just break it up into smaller pieces so the blender will have aneasier time blending up. i'll put the top on there.and you know, i like using a high power blender, you know, a standard household blender youget at walmart for twenty or twenty five bucks. i mean, that will work but it will leave nicelarge chunks. i mean, one of our goals, you

know, is that we want to break down the foodto the smallest particle size so that our bodies could get the nutrients out of it,you know. the little villi in our intestines literally, you know, suck nutrients out ofthe food as it passes by, but only if it is in the liquid state. so we need to basicallybreak open all the hard cell walls of the leaves and the vitamix this time is my favoriteblender to do that. we could go ahead and turn that on, it's on low, then we're goingto crank it to high. alright, looks like we're blended. we're going to go ahead and shutthis baby off. and check it out, we've got a nice delicious green smoothie in here.now i do want to let you know that the blender runs at like in excess of 20,000 rpm , thejuicer on this side runs at like 43 rpm. so

that's a multitude of difference. becausethe blender is running so fast it introduces oxygen. the oxygen basically lowers the nutritionin the food. now that being said, yes, a blended smoothie is far better than any kind of processedfood, junk food and animal food you could eat. but juicing is just so much better. solook at the consistency on this green smoothie here, nice and smooth, you can see like literallythe air bubbles in there because that's what it's adding. but it's done a really good jobat breaking this stuff down. i mean, these are just two of my favorite ways to includethe vegetables and use so many other produce that i'm growing in my garden.of course my third favorite way to use the produce in my garden is simply pick it, eatit and enjoy it. you know, many times i'm

out in my garden, i'm just grazing like acow. i just pick greens and eat it, you know. i got sugar snap peas coming on right now.just pick them and eat them. they are so delicious. of course, you can also make other thingslike salads and i love to make soups with them. you know my soups use like my juicerto make a soup base and then i just blend that up with some additional ingredients.i mean, there's so many different ways you could use the food you grow so that you guyscould eat, you know. some of my other ways that i like to use the food i grow is, numberone- fermentation. so i like to pickle the food that i'm growing. and this increasesits nutrition content, specially due to the beneficial probiotics that are contained within.super important. another favorite way is to

dehydrate them. so i love to make things likekale chips and broccoli chips and red vein sorrel chips by basically just using the leaves.i put in like a dressing that i would maybe make in the blender, such as a handful ofmacadamia nuts and some orange juice blended up with some herbs and spices, maybe sometaco seasoning, and i'll paste that on the leaves and then dehydrate the leaves and getsome delicious kale chips. so now i can get more greens from my garden into me.the next and last part of this video that i'd like to talk about is how you can growyour greens if you don't have space outside to grow a garden. it's simply growing sproutsand microgreens. so now i'm going to share with you guys avery simple way to grow your own food. it's

actually just called sprouting and you coulddo this in your very kitchen, even if you don't have an outside enclosure for growinggreens. super simple, super easy. you know, there are many seeds that can be used forsprouting seeds and the easiest way to learn this is to go to any grocery store and lookfor the little sprouts that they sell, you know. oftentimes they'll sell like alfalfasprouts, clover sprouts, you know various, certain kinds of bean sprouts. some beansif you sprout them can be quite toxic and get you sick. so i do recommend being carefulwith the beans. you know, onion sprouts, broccoli sprouts, those are some of the more commonones, you know, that you could easily do. one of my favorite is actually just the buckwheatsprouts. if you go to your standard health

food store you could get the whole buck wheatraw, not roasted, and these are the seeds that you need to make your own buckwheat sprouts.so, in general, these buckwheat sprouts that i grow with the whole seeds growing tailsmaybe when they're about a quarter inch, that's when they're ready to be harvested and eatthem. you can grow them longer like i have here, and they will even actually start toform roots and get green. and, you know, so these generally the way that i'm sharing withyou guys how to sprout is just to make them little baby greens when they're nice and small,and then you're just going to eat them, you know. so within 5 days you could have somesprouts ready. these guys will be ready probably within 2 or 3, you know. in my climate ofcourse, the temperature that you need to sprout

in is very important, you know. the sproutsand the microgreens that we'll talk about next actually like the temperatures that welike to live in. so if you have air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter time,you know, and if it's comfortable for you it's going to be comfortable for the sprouts.so that's something real cool, you know. you don't need any kind of special air conditioningor heating or anything like that, just standard stuff that you would be comfortable in, samewill the sprouts be. so anyways, how to do this is very simple.we're just going to take some out of my jar here. and i like to use the 24 ounce masonjar. oh we've put too much in there, let's put some back. we're just going to go aheadand put a little bit on the bottom here. and

one of the amazing thing about the sproutsis that they expand, you know, so even if we're just putting a little bit in here now,they're going to soak, they're going to puff up, they're going to grow into more. and it'sgoing to be quite a bit of food. so besides just the seeds, you know, we need some waterfor it to germinate. i got about 2 cups of water in here. and we're basically just, thisis the first step of sprouting, you know. you got to soak your seeds, you know. andthe kind of seed that you're soaking will be dependent on how long you're going to haveto actually soak them. so, you know, on the buckwheat, you couldsoak them actually for about an hour too. they don't need to be soaked that long. thenwhat you're going to do after you soak them,

you're going to go ahead and put this specialtop on, that's available online. you could buy it at many health food stores. it justfits on the standard wide mouth mason jar. once you are done soaking these, and i'm justgoing to pretend like i've been soaking these for a while, which i haven't, and then basicallywhat you're going to do is you're going to go over the sink or even better you can goover your garden and just kind of pour out the water. once you've poured out all thewater, then you're going to want to basically take all the seeds and get them lined up allthe way along the bottom of the jar. this is very important because what you want todo is you want to allow for the most aeration inside the jar. you are also going to tipthe jar up at a little angle, so that any

leftover water will actually drip out, youknow. and then all you're going to simply do is just keep this in ambient light. youdon't need to put lights on or anything like that, you know. sprouts are very easy. youjust basically are going to use filtered water to basically rinse these guys out like 3 timesa day and you know, get them a little bit wet, rinse them out and then just leave themsit like this, you know, on the counter at little bit of an angle to drain all the excesswater off. and in just a few days, you know, you're going to have your own sprouts to eat.and that's simply amazing, you know. an easy way everybody in the country could grow somefood by simply sprouting. no matter if it's the winter or the summer, no matter whereyou live, sprouting is an easy way to grow

your food.so, the next thing i want to do is actually show you guys just like advanced topics. sproutingsuper simple micro greens is really where it's at. micro greens are 4 to 40 times morenutritious than the full size greens, you know. so i have broccoli here and the broccolimicro greens are more nutritious than the large broccoli. so that means you could eatless of them to get the same health benefits. plus the micro greens are nice and tenderand they are much easier to digest. so now let's go ahead and put this away and showyou guys how to grow some micro greens. alright, so now we're going to share withyou guys how to grow some micro greens. and it really is that easy. the first thing i'mgoing to go over with you guys are the supplies

that you're going to need literally. you justare going to need some of these nursery flats with no holes in the bottom, you know. thennext you're going to need something like this. this is a sure to grow pad. you could alsouse a fibre pad if you want to do more natural and compostable. or you could use somethinglike the coconut coir. so yeah i'm going to be sprouting seeds and growing them a hydroponicmethod this time, not in the soil. there's certain seeds you can grow in a hydroponicfashion and certain seeds are better grown in the soil fashion. another thing, of course,you're going to need to grow the microgreens are the seeds. so we got some handy pantryseeds- the radish sango. i like that handy pantry company. they can provide you fullon microgreen kits that work really well,

they make it really easy and they have highquality seeds. as a bonus, if you call them to order, it's handypantry.com , call themto order and tell them you want the gyg or growing you greens special, you get specialdiscounts for you guys, that i have negotiated for you guys.of course, for the microgreens you're also going to need some water. i'm using purifiedwater here. we got about 4 cups of water right here. and you're going to need also a spraybottle and then finally you're also going to need some ph test strips. now basicallyif you don't remember anything else about microgreens, you're going to want to rememberyou've got to ph balance your water. super critical, super important for optimal success,you know. your water coming in to your tap,

even if it is filtered, may be at the wrongph and then your sprouts are not going to have the ideal conditions to grow. so well,you know, we're going to test our ph and if required we're going to take some vinegarhere, you know, and balance our ph out. you know, if it is too high.so i guess first we're going to go ahead and just take out one of these test strips. theseare similar test strips that actually you can test your own body's ph. and we want tobe mostly alkaline in our bodies. but this water for growing the microgreens you wantit more acid. so we're going to just take this strip, dunk it in there, get a littlebit of water on there, and then we're just going to go ahead and let this change colorif it's going to change color and see what

we end up at.alright, so for me this looks like we're approximately at like a 6. so this appears to be ideal ph.this is just the water out of my reverse osmosis system. that's pretty good. it didn't evenchange the color of the strip hardly. so that's quite good. if it was too alkaline or youwant to add, you know, some of the vinegar there. so yeah looks like we're good. so thenext thing we want to do is we want to do is we want to go ahead and take out the padand we're going to pour in about 2 cups of water into our tray here. so that's abouthalf the water that i have in here. that's about two cups. and we're just going to makesure all the different channels in here are fully saturated and distributed evenly. thenwe're going to go ahead and put our sure to

grow pad in there, and just tap this downand make sure the pad absorbs all the water, you know, and it's all even. so it's evenlymoist all the way around, so you don't have any dry spots. then we're going to go aheadand take our ph balanced water and pour that into the spray bottle here. we'll go aheadand pour over here so i don't drip or anything. and then the other thing is you want to makesure you use a clean spray bottle guys, super important. you don't want any contamination,you know, in there. and i recommend actually buying a new one. it can be found at likedollar stores for a buck. then we're going to go ahead and put the top on and then we'resimply going to do like about 10 sprays, if we get a good spray. there we go. one, twothree, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

ten.alright, so now that we've got this sprayed down, the next thing is, you know, we gotthe moisture for the seeds, now we need to get the seeds. so next, to grow microgreensyou just need the seeds. and there's many different seeds you can choose from. the handypantry has an amazing selection of seeds. some of my favorite style seeds to grow arethe brassica family of plants, including arugula, broccoli, cabbage, radish, kohirabi, all thesekind of things. because in general, they're going to grow pretty fast. and actually theradish is one of the quickest of them all. so the amount of seeds you use is going tobe dependent on the size of the seeds. so for smaller seeds such as broccoli and youknow, i don't know, cabbage seeds and arugula

seeds that tend to be smaller, you're goingto want to use about 2 tablespoons up to about 3 tablespoons. because these radish seedsare actually quite large, we're going to use about one quarter cup. so i have a measuringcup here, and we're just going to go ahead and pour in about to a quarter cup of theradish seeds. looks like that's about it. maybe a few more.and now this is a very important step here. now what we're going to do is we're goingto go ahead and spread these seeds out on this flat here. and it's a very important,you know, you want to try to get even distribution. so i'm just going to kind of pour out thelittle spout here and pour just try to get only a few to come out at a time. and tryto just, you know, fill every square inch

of the tray so like they're not all clumpedin one corner, right. as evenly as you could possibly get them. and put them down a fewat a time. now if you're anal you could probably take tweezers and like micro arrange them,you know. i don’t have time enough to be doing that. so i'm just going to try to dothe best i can. and you want to make sure that all the seeds are on the pad and notfallen over the edges, you know, very, very important. and if you grow the microgreensand it's not thick and dense, maybe you haven't spread the seeds, you know, well enough. andmaybe you haven't actually put enough seeds on there either. so we're just going to goahead and spread the rest of these seeds. alright, so it looks like i got all the seedsspread out and i'm just going to go ahead

and take my finger and try to, you know, getall the ones that are clubbed out a little bit evenly distributed. and i mean i couldspend like 5 hours being all anal and doing this properly. you know what? seeds are goingto figure out what they need to do as long as they're not too clumped together. it'sgoing to be fine. i think i'm pretty good, maybe right over here is a little bit clumped.alright, so after you got them all spread out, what you're going to is you're goingto go ahead and take your mister once again and you're going to mist about, probably about10 to 12 sprays. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, let's go ahead andspread the mist around, ten, eleven, twelve. alright, so now that we got this evenly moist,we're going to go ahead and take the second

tray. this is going to be our green housedome cover, right. these guys do actually not need light. we're going to take this coverand spread it out five times to keep them moist. you know, it's very important to keepa moist environment. that's one, two three, four, five, about six, alright, six. whatwe're going to do is we're going to take this cover, put it right on the top and put thisin a cool dry place, right. not in the sun, not in the greenhouse. between about 65 degreesand 75 degrees. so after you've got this done then you'regoing to go ahead about every 12 hours, you're going to go ahead and take off the top, peekin on your sprouts, see how they're doing and then mist them another about ten to twelvetimes or maybe spray a little bit in the top

just to keep a nice moist environment. especiallyimportant if you're in an arid climate. and then cover them. and continue to do this everytwelve hours, checking on them, spraying them down, and then in about 4 to 5 days actually,once the second set of leaves appear, then you're going to want to go ahead and takethis cover off. and then you'd want to go ahead and put it under some light. so somestandard florescent shop lights would be sufficient. you don't need any kind of special lightsor spend all this money on led lighting or anything. i mean, i got some shop lights,led shop lights at costco which should just be fine. and then they're just going to grow,green up, and then you could go ahead and take some scissors and cut them and then usethem in salads, use them in wraps, use them

in your, you know, your fresh smoothies. andjust most importantly just pick them and eat them and chew them and get some nice vibrantflavors in the microgreens. i mean, that's how truly easy it is to grow your own microgreens.once again, if you are looking for some microgreen supplies, check out handypantry.com and youcould call them up and tell them that john from growing you greens or gyg sent you, andthey'll give you a special discount, you know. that's pretty much this episode. i mean, icovered a lot of stuff. i covered, you know, why you guys should grow your greens, youknow, some of the top easy greens perennial and non-perennial greens you could grow, howto use your greens, and how to grow sprouts and microgreens even if you don't have a gardento grow outside. no matter what, i want you

guys to start growing your own food and startincluding these fresh healthy foods in your diet. because there's no other food that'shealthier on earth in my opinion, based on my research. and i'm going to continue makingvideos to share with you guys all for free, no charge, how to grow your own foods andto be as healthy as you can. because truly that's what i'm doing, and i'm just sharingthis part of my life with you because i want to be the change that i want to see in theworld. and i want all you guys to do the same. so anyways, tune in to me at growingyourgreens.comand i want to thank you for staying, you know, and watching this whole video, because thisvideo can change your life if you act on the knowledge that i have shared with you. becauseit has taken me literally a lifetime to figure

all this stuff out and i'm still learningnew things every day. alright, bye bye.alright, so what did you guys think of that whole presentation? now that presentationi wouldn't say it's scripted because none of my videos are ever scripted. it's all offthe top of my head, but i did have a fairly rigorous outline of points i wanted to cover.and a lot of times i just do it on the fly, turn the camera on and start talking in. youknow, i have a plan and then it always comes together. but that one was a little bit morescripted and i have like okay i've got to cover this, this, this, this. and i want tolet you, and i want to ask you guys did you guys like the format of me just kind of beingmore like a teacher instead of just me being

more off the fly. i guess i'm still a teacherbecause i'm always teaching stuff. but you know, that's a little more scripted and actuallythat video was a bit more challenging and harder for me to do because you know, i hadtime constraints that wanted me to finish it. and i wanted to able to share certainideas and certain concepts and certain things that are really important to me, you know,in the video to a wider audience than i would normally have access to you know just throughmy subscriber base that knows me and you know all the practices and things and some of mybeliefs, you know. if you watch a lot of my videos you'll getto know me and how i do things and why i do things. and it is really important to me toget the information out on that video out

there. and i'm glad you guys took the timeand watched it all the way through. and in case you like the video please give me a thumbsup and let me know, i'll make more videos of that format, kind of being more teachingstyle, you know, more like laid out instead of like more spontaneous like i like to be.it is a little more challenging for me because i really just like turn the camera on andtalk, and i just share my life with you guys. and that's what i'm really doing in all myvideos. so, yeah, the other thing i want to encourage you guys is i have over eleven hundredvideos or so now on all aspects of growing food more than any other person probably onthe planet. and you know, you guys could learn a lot from my videos. so i want to encourageyou guys, if you have not already, click that

subscriber button down below to be notifiedof my new upcoming episodes and be sure to check my past episodes. i've put a link downbelow this video to check out some of my past episodes. from me starting a raised bed garden,installing irrigation, you know, making a soil mix, i mean, i share all my videos soyou guys could get, you know, have so much information so you guys are prepared and canstart growing your greens today, because that's my main message- grow your own food, you know,and grow your own greens and eat them so that you could be healthier than the next person.and hopefully one person at a time, i'll be making the nation healthier and more greenat the same time. alright, so once again my name is john kohlerwith growingyourgreens.com ! we'll see you

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