John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares his talk, “Maximize Your Health By Growing Your Food” that he presented at the Baker Creek Spring Tulip Festival in Mansfield, Missouri.
In this episode, you will learn John’s story on why he started growing his food and changing his diet to a plant-based minimally processed diet.
You will learn more about the specific techniques he uses to grow the highest quality food that contains more nutrients than store-bought food.
You will also discover how to NOT lose nutrients once you harvest and prepare your food when John shares his best methods of processing your homegrown food to minimize nutrient loss and maximize the disease prevention potential of your fresh-picked fruits and vegetables.
After watching this episode, you will learn the best ways to grow fruits and vegetables in your garden and how to best process them so you can best prevent disease and live the healthiest you can be.
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
01:20 Talk Starts
01:56 Why I started gardening
06:56 Three Ways to Increase Your Health by Gardening
09:43 What is the ONE food to eat for the best health?
10:52 Components of Vegetables
13:17 Grow these Vegetables For Specific Nutrients
16:28 What Seeds do you buy for the most nutrition?
18:59 Most Important Factors for Choosing Vegetables to Grow and Eat
20:36 My Favorite Vegetables to Grow
21:29 Use the Best Growing Practices to Grow Nutritious Produce
23:50 Declining Nutrition in Industrial Food
24:50 Organic vs Conventional Food Mineral Content
25:13 Why Health Can Decline Due to Less Minerals & Other Factors
25:47 Standard Organic Practices are Not Enough
26:20 Add Trace Minerals and Biology to Your Soil
29:50 Add Fungal Compost for Better Growing Results
30:10 Add Carbon Back to Your Soil
30:38 Best Food Preparation Techniques for Maximum Nutrition
31:27 Gardeners Have a Huge Health Advantage
32:00 Use This tool to digest your foods the best
32:30 Use a Vacuum Blender to Maximize Nutrition
34:25 You can Vacuum Blend in your Vitamix or Blendtec
35:50 Slow Juicing to Make Vegetables Easier to Digest
39:15 Fermentation of Your Vegetables for Your Microbiome
40:25 Best Cooking Techniques to Heat Process Your Food
41:45 Summary of Talk
43:20 Any Rock Quarry Dust?
44:18 Is Pickling the Same as Fermentation?
44:57 How to Store Juices
45:45 Do you have an opinion of JADAM
46:14 How much vacuum do you need to pull when Fermenting food?
48:04 Vacuum Chamber or Foodsaver for Vacuum Sealing? Is that the same thing?
49:59 Do you eat moringa in your diet regularly?
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