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Organic Foods: Backyard Agriculture
July 25th, 2009 | 
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A simple idea led two women into a thriving new farming enterprise. Build backyard mini-farms for homeowners who want to start growing their own fresh herbs and vegetables lasting throughout most of the year. Recipes from this episode: Kale Philo Bake and Crookneck Squash and Tomato Slices. Links to these recipes are below.
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For the Kale Philo Bake recipe:
http://cookingupastory.com/recipes/kale-philo-bake/
For Crookneck Squash and Tomato Slices recipe: http://cookingupastory.com/recipes/crookneck-squash-and-tomato-slices/
Duration : 0:5:33
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That’s amazing! I …
That’s amazing! I just moved to a neighbourhood that is all veggie gardens. It’s a beautiful thing to see. BTW our lettuce is loving all the cool weather after all that hot sun and rain.
I grew sweet …
I grew sweet potatoes last year and they did fairly well… I live in southern ontario.
In the vast …
In the vast majority of fields, only N and P, perhaps K are applied. all of the other essential elements are provided by the natural soil complex, which consists of mineral breakdown and the breakdown of previous crop residue tilled in. Organic fertilizers are either animal feces or mined minerals and provide the same things… plus the food contaminents in feces. No one has ever gotten sick from chemical fertiliers. People regularly die from feces contaminated Organic fields.
the problem with …
the problem with the chemical fertalizer is that it only has minerals the plant needs, not what we need.
Washing, especially …
Washing, especially with a 60-100 ppm dose of Chlorine will take out most diseases… but the drinking water standard is 4ppm. The better bet is to not rely on organic fertilizers… which means… conventional stuff. I love that people jump in a car, where there chance of death each year is about 1 in 10,000, yet if the chance of negetive effects of pesticide residue on food is less than 1 in a million LIFETIME exposure, it is not allowed to market.. Risk is so misunderstood.
Wash your food?
Wash your food?
darn. oh well.
darn. oh well.
sweet potatoes are …
sweet potatoes are a warmer weather crop.
We all have to grow …
We all have to grow our own food now. Summer is short here in Canada. But we do our best to put some away for winter- onions, wonder if I can grow sweet potatoes?
Wow. PCB’s in …
Wow. PCB’s in pesticides? e-coli engineered into food? Did you graduate high school? Few things are more dangerous than ignorance. And your lack of understanding of basic science and obvious disregard for it are primary reasons America is in trouble. Pepole get sick from one thing in food, bacterial contamination, not pesticides. And bacterial contamination comes from Organic Fertilizers and Human Sanitation. Organic Spinach: Known Killer.
Yeah, no way that …
Yeah, no way that this better than your toxic food. No hair nets or gloves will stop e-coli or salmonella when it is engineered into the produce. I’d much rather take my chances doing it the way our people have for thousands of years versus forcing pesticides and herbacides full of PCB’s onto the public. We know how badly the commercial agriculture industry wants to do away with organics, and control the worlds food supply. I won’t buy your poison, and soon neither will the public.
Interesting. But …
Interesting. But where is the food safety program? Do they have the written manuels with all that they do to keep the food safe? Are the organic fertilizers they use certified as free from ecoli? Do they wear gloves, hairnets and aprons like we do commercially when we harvest lettuce? Do they have records of everytime they clean their equipment? Do they have an approved Organic plan with complies with the USDA Organic Standard, paid their $1500 inspection fee? It is not Organc.. Sorry!!!
SHE IS PROJECTING …
SHE IS PROJECTING YOUR DEFECT
Exciting! The …
Exciting! The authentic version of ROSEMARY Boxer and Laura THYME. Two women, love of earth, and a brilliant idea! Congradulation. I have a huge backyard screaming, DIG ME UP!
Fantastic idea …
Fantastic idea girls, good on you for makin the most of it and coming up with such an innovative way to bring great, fresh produce into people’s homes and hopefullly making a living at the same time. Really Cool!
These gals have it …
These gals have it together …thanx for the informative vid!
research the hemp …
research the hemp seed!!!
friend us! over at industrial hemp rocks… and look out for our pro hemp vid due out in a couple months… advocate! regulate!
There are some in …
There are some in Australia - ‘Your Patch’ is one.
research/advocate …
research/advocate industrial hemp alongside medicinal cannabis for health liberty and economy! and ecology! research? the commodities we are not taking advantage of economically
i love to see this …
i love to see this kind of video… i hope that you can upload it as many as you can… we should tell the whole world that we should do our own farming to reduce food crisis.
Wouldn’t it be …
Wouldn’t it be amazing if a whole city could produce all its own vegetables and crops?
WHY IS SHE SO FAT
WHY IS SHE SO FAT
I don’t know much …
I don’t know much about growing vegetables but some of the best corn I ever had came right of a corn stalk from a farm a man in are church owns. That tasted so much better than the corn you get from stores, but mainly I think it was the freshness factor.
i love organic food …
i love organic food. i try to eat as much organic things as possible!!!
I’ve been growing …
I’ve been growing veggies for twelve years. I don’t know what that matters though seeing as how many people have been gardening for forty years and still have much to learn. I repeated nothing you said, I may have emphasized what you were wanting to say. You made many umptions in how these ladies run their business and what they know, and that is foolish. Look up their business website and learn a bit more of their practices.