John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to O'hare airport in Chicago, IL to discuss their urban vertical gardening system: The Tower Garden. The tower garden is now being sold for homeowners who desire to grow their own food. In this episode, John shares his candid opinions on the Tower Garden Vertical Garden System which grows food aeroponically.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you why you should be married to your vegetable garden.
In this Growing Your Greens in a minute episode, John will explain his thoughts on why you should be married to your vegetable garden. Your garden is a relationship, between you and nature. This relationship requires time to be nurturedso it can grow and flourish. A stronger commitment to your vegetable garden will more probably make a more productive, healthy garden and create a bigger bounty of food for you and your family.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the beach to harvest fresh seaweed so he can bring in a local, sustainable source of trace minerals and other nutrients into his garden. In this episode, John will share the best seaweed to harvest to use in your garden as well as some ideas on how to use the whole seaweed in your garden.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ invites each one of his viewers to participate in the 350 Home and Garden Challenge happening this weekend, May 14 and 15. In this video you will learn how we can foster massive change if each one of us take a small action. In this episode you will learn how growing food, saving water, saving energy and even making adjustments to what you eat have an impact on our mother earth.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he handles caging and training some plants that were not originally caged, staked or trellised when they were originally planted. In this episode, you will learn some techniques that may be handy to get your garden looking nice and being more productive.
John http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ gives you a tour of his front yard garden and talks about weedy vegetables or plants that will re-seed themselves in your garden so you don't have to replant them. In this episode John will share with you about a dozen crops that have dropped seed and come up on their own in his garden. By growing weedy vegetables it will reduce the amount of work so you can be eating more out of your organic garden and less out of the grocery store.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits the Good Food Festival in Chicago, Illinois to bring you the best products that can help you grow more food at home and be more sustainable on the planet.
In this episode, you will discover an organization that helps kids grow food and eat the food they grew, a special variety of seaweed that tastes like bacon, a herb farm near Chicago that grows over 300 varieties of herbs, a truly compostable plastic bag made from plants, US Made high-power LED grow lights that let you grow vegetables in mason jars inside your home, the power of worms to eat your garbage and a special rock dust mineral powder that also contains high paramagnetic levels that can help your plants grow better.
John will visit the following exhibitors at the Good Food Festival:
04:20 Gardeneers - a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting kids with nature and growing and eating vegetables from the garden.
http://www.gardeneers.org/
08:26 Amazing Seaweed - A special cultivar of Dulse seaweed from OSU (Oregon State University) that tastes like Bacon when fried, but is healthy for you.
http://www.amazingseaweed.com/
10:44 Wind Ridge Herb Garm - Grows over 300 varieties of herbs you can buy and grow in your garden. A great resource for people in Chicago.
http://www.windridgeherbfarm.com/
12:41 Truly Compostable Plant Plastic Bags - Learn about the SCAM of many "biodegradable" plastic bags and learn how to spot real compostable plant-based bags.
http://www.renewbag.com/
16:36 Grow Vegetables in a Mason Jar with a High-Quality USA Made LED Grow Light - The happy leaf grow light was designed and made in the USA with mostly USA components. It will outlast and outperform imported LED Lights. John will also show how you can grow vegetables in wide mouth quart size mason jars.
http://www.happyleafled.com/
use coupon code GYG for 10% off (if not working call them at 815-414-2209) to order and get the discount.
22:10 Natures Little Recyclers - Shows the power of the earthworms that eat your garbage, how businesses can dispose of food waste in their basement for LEED certification, also a cute desktop worm farm and how food waste can be diverted from the landfill to make the best garden fertilizer.
http://www.nlrworms.com
25:57 Andesite Mineral Complex - This special Rock dust provides up to 70 minerals with a High Paramagnetic value that can enhance plant growth and provide trace minerals that may not be present in your soil to your plants so they can grow to their genetic potential with less pest pressure and higher levels of nutrition.
http://www.greengenerations.com/
After watching this episode, you will learn valuable information that can help you grow more food, more effectively and how you can live more sustainably on the planet.
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Referenced Links:
Good Food Festival - Annual Chicago Festival dedicated to educating people about local and responsibly raised food. Get on their e-mail list to be notified of next years event:
http://www.goodfoodfestivals.com/
Family Farmed Non-Profit that works to expand production of locally grown and responsibly raised food: http://www.familyfarmed.org/
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the College of Marin to learn more about their 5.8 acre Certified Organic Farm where they teach local residents about organic farming and organic gardening. In this episode you will learn just a few of the principles they use on the farm to grow their crops organically. Finally you will learn the #1 to exclude pests such as cucumber beetles from eating your crops
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the presentation he gave at the 2014 Heirloom Expo on the top 2 ways to use your home grown foods to build your health.
In this episode, you will learn John's story and why he is passionate about growing his own food, and using it in the healthiest way possible.
You will discover two kitchen appliances that can help you transform your garden-fresh superfoods into super-duper foods.
You will also learn some simple recipes that John uses on a daily basis to enable him to include more home-grown garden fresh foods into his diet.
You will discover why so many Americans "got it wrong" and John's answer to better health.
At the end of this episode, John will answer some questions from the audience.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you what has been pilfered from his community garden plots in the past and now. In this episode John will share his techniques for minimizing stealing from his community garden plots by thinking smarter and not working harder.