Urban Farming in Baltimore Grows Food Year Round to Teach Kids Where Real Food Comes From
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Real Food Farm in Balitmore, MD to show you how this 6 acre farm is growing real food. In this episode you will learn how the Real Food Farm is able to grow food year round with the help of high tunnels or hoop houses. After watching this episode, you will be familiar with some of the techniques that the Real Food Farm is using to grow food for the community, teach kids and create awareness about urban farming.
John from http://growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the one cucumber that grows like a weed in his garden and produces massive and abundant harvests of these cucumbers from South America.
In this episode, John will share more with you about this speedy climber, a South American Cucumber also known as the Bolivian Cucumber that has been grown in the Andes for hundreds of years, and little is known about this amazing fruit in North America.
The Bolivian Cucumber aka Achocha is the most productive cucumber that I grow in my garden. You will learn the best times to harvest this fruit for eating, best time to harvest this fruit for stuffing like a pepper, and the best time to harvest this fruit if you want to save the seeds.
You will also discover how this plant grows and where it might grow best. You will also learn about some ways you can use this unique and rare cucumber fruit.
After watching this episode, you will learn more about the South American Cucumber that grows like a weed and will produce massive harvests of cucumbers for you and your family.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to a friends old victorian home to share updates on what has been growing on at this rental property in terms of growing food with little or no money. In this episode, John will share some of techniques implemented and some things that could use improvment . After watching this episode, you may get some ideas that can help you grow food for low cost at your home.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Josiah Hunt's Farm to share with you what is biochar, how its made and why you should never use raw biochar in your garden or farm. In this episode, you will discover how biochar can be made in a pit with wood and then how it is processed into a mature biochar. You will also learn why you should not use fresh-made raw biochar, but how it should be matured before use for best result. Finally John will share the proper mixture of biochar to soil you should use in your garden or on your farm to get the benefits of adding the biochar to your land. After watching this episode you will be on your way to making the dark, rich, fertile terra preta soils that was discovered in South America that allowed the native people to flourish.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland to share with you how they are growing food in Baltimore in the inner city. In this episode John visits the Living Classroom Foundation who teaches young people how to garden and grow food by doing it. During this episode you will get a tour of what is growing and you can grow in the Baltimore and surrounding area as well as some ideas on how to start your own garden. After watching this episode, hopefully you will get your hands dirty and start growing an edible food garden if you are not already.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a tour of his backyard food forest. In this video John will share just some of the amazing fruits and unique vegetables growing in his backyard. In addition, you learn what he is growing in his two greenhouses. You will also discover what ugni berries and babaco fruit tastes like!
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to Phoenix, Arizona to the home of Jake Mace where you will learn the top 12 fruit trees that can thrive in the desert with little care.
In this episode, you will discover the garden of eating that Jake Mace has created at his standard residential tract home in Phoenix, Arizona. You will get a tour of his edible food forest garden and learn about the 12 most important desert adapted fruit trees you can grow.
Besides some of the most desert acclimated fruit trees, you will learn about some of the more tropical fruits that Jake is growing in the form of "extra credit".
You will also discover a few of the most important practices you must do to ensure your success growing fruit trees in the desert or other hot, dry, arid climate zone.
Finally at the end of this episode, John will interview Jake about some of these desert adapted fruit trees as well as talk about some good vegetables to grow in the heat. You will also learn about water and water conservation and how you can save more water growing your own food and eating lower on the food chain.
After watching this episode, you will have a better understanding of the best fruit trees to grow in the desert and how to make changes in your life to leave a lesser foot print on the planet.
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Check out Jake Mace at his garden channel at:
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares his opinion on the best purchase a viewer can make to improve their garden. In this episode, John answers a viewers question about what she should purchase next to improve her garden. Watch this episode to find out the best purchase John believes that can be made that will benefit the family most.
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Home Depot to show you a unique watering can that never runs out of water. This device has a retail of about $40 but for a limited time you can purchase it at a store near you for 90% off! After watching this video you will know if this watering can can help you grow more food.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ takes you on a field trip to Planet Claire Farmacy to show you how you can grow a food forest and market garden for free and cheap.
In this episode, you will learn about many techniques that can be used to build soil fertility. You will discover how this farmer is able to grow crops in the sandy soil of Florida.
You will learn how she is using a free resource to build organic matter in the soil throughout her entire garden.
You will learn a technique for making a pile of fungal dominated soil every year using only woodchips.
John will then give you a tour of this food forest and share the top fruits, roots, shoots and leafy green vegetables that will grow well in South Florida.
You will also learn how to protect your garden from rodents, deer and other creatures with free materials that may be available near you.
You will get a tour of many areas of the farm including the market garden and Microgreens area that is growing in the soil instead of trays. You will learn how you can better benefit from growing your own grains for your chickens.
You will discover how wood chips and logs and how they can be used in the garden to build a garden that conserves and holds moisture.
You will discover how free wood pallets and logs are used to make a hugelkultur bed, Raised beds with no sides using mulch as borders
You will see examples of many different structures that are used to grow food and trellis plants up off the ground to use more vertical growing space.
Finally, John will sit down with the farmer, Annette and ask her the following questions about her farm:
0:56:27 Interview with Annette
0:56:50 What motivates you to get up and work in your garden everyday?
0:57:37 What are some of the foods you grow that grow well? What do you grow instead of zucchini that gets squash bugs?
0:59:45 Tell us about the loofah gourd and how you grow it, eat it and use it?
1:00:16 Share with us a little about the Seminole Pumpkin?
1:01:01 What is the best tomato to grow in South Florida?
1:02:00 How do you use all the food that your grow here?
1:02:50 What do you feed your dogs? and how do you make it?
1:04:05 What have you learned about brix testing?
1:05:33 Tell me more about the low brix hydroponic lettuce?
1:08:09 What is one gardening practice that you think everyone should do?
1:09:00 Any final words of wisdom for my viewers?
1:09:37 How did you learn how to garden?
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Growing High Brix Crops
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