Profitable Backyard Farm uses Hydroponics to Grow Food Fast
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2018
- John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to Whisper Backyard Farm in Los Angeles to share with you how they are growing food fast using Hydroponics and Wicking Beds aka SIP Beds or Self Irrigated Planter Boxes to save water and run-off.
In this episode, you will learn more about how you can make farming in a backyard profitable on a small scale. You will get a full tour of this backyard farm that operates in Los Angeles as a urban farm.
First, you will see a better way to use your front yard - to grow a permaculture style food forest. You will learn the different kinds of trees that are planted in the front yard. You will learn how to pick a ripe finger lime and see the finger lime caviar that grows inside.
You will learn about SIP Beds aka Self-Irrigated Planters aka Wicking Beds and how they are constructed and how they can benefit you and your garden in times of drought.
Jumpto:
03:43 Support Me
04:00 Cooperative of Backyard Farmers
06:27 Front Yard Permaculture fruit forest tour
08:58 Growing his microgreen cuttings
09:27 Learn about Finger Limes- How to pick a ripe one
14:30 Using a Tree as a trellis growing structure
16:17 Start of Backyard tour grown over concrete
17:14 How to grow more food in less space
18:56 How you can grow lettuce in a concrete mixing tub
20:30 Learn more about Sub Irrigated Planters (SIP Beds / Wicking Beds)
25:00 Main Area of Farm growing in wicking beds
26:15 Growing Fresh Sorrel in Wicking Beds
29:28 Growing Uncommon Crops and Nutritious Crops
30:00 Stinging Nettle Leaves from baker Creek Seed
30:34 Growing Green Shisho
32:05 Growing Green Onions/ Chives
32:50 Growing Tulsi Basi in the Winter
33:25 Growing Purple Tree Collards for Production
35:07 Attracting Birds: Good or Bad?
35:45 What to do with your Catepillars you find in your garden
36:30 Growing Microgreens in a Greenhouse
37:54 How Microgreens are growing in the Greenhouse
39:12 Grow more food in less space
40:02 Growing Sunflower greens in smaller trays to make it easier
41:23 Growing Microgreens differently than all other growers - in Cell trays
43:47 No longer growing in Aquaponics - Growong Hydroponics
45:26 How he grows watercress using Hydroponics
46:45 Growing Duck Weed and selling for $1 an ounce
48:30 Summer Vegetable Aquaponics Recommendation
49:27 Verti-Gro Vertical Growing System
50:46 Garden tour continues
51:25 Constructing an Easy Shade Structure
52:08 Don't pull out non-selling vegetables before you do this
53:10 my favorite herb to grow
53:38 Bioremediation to Clean Swimming Pool and Growing Plants & Fish
56:30 Best Place for a compost pile
58:04 What you should do with your compost pile
59:33 Why its best to grow your own fruit trees
1:01:30 Reusing Water to grow a banana "tree"
1:02:05 Growing Sprouts Automatically
1:07:05 How to Create Additional Revenue for your farm with unsold produce
1:09:50 complete hydroponic nutrients that grow vegetables on his farm
1:12:50 Interview with Mike from Whisper Farms
1:13:07 Why did you start to grow all this food on the property?
1:13:40 How did you get to plant a fruit forest in the front yard
1:15:18 Why did you start growing in Wicking Beds?
1:17:30 What is the biggest challenge with wicking beds?
1:18:30 What kind of wood did you use to build your wicking beds?
1:19:55 What are the benefits of growing wicking beds?
1:20:50 What plants grow best in a wicking bed?
1:21:30 Do you grow red veined sorrel?
1:21:40 Why did you stop using Aquaponics and convert to Hydroponics?
1:27:50 Why Growing Chickens are not the best for maximizing Profit
1:32:02 Did your diet change after you stopped keeping 100 chickens?
1:33:18 Why did you keep some chickens on your farm?
1:35:20 How did you end up with 100 Chickens at one point?
1:38:30 Why are you using cell trays to grow microgreens?
1:40:43 How to get away with selling your produce for $16 a pound?
1:44:06 On an average Sale, how much do people spend?
1:45:53 What do you sell besides the $1/ounce greens at the farmers market?
1:47:20 How did you come up come up with your automatic sprouting table?
1:50:12 What did work on your backyard farm?
1:53:27 How to you sterilize your microgreen trays?
1:55:18 Why do you grow using hydroponic nutrients instead of organic?
2:01:29 My views on Synthetic vs Organic Nutrients
2:09:10 Any Final Words of Wisdom from a Backyard farmer?
2:10:20 How can people find you and your farm?
After watching this episode, you will learn more about how you can grow food at home for you and your family and even make it a profitable business if you so desire.
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Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
03:43 Support Me and Purchase a GYG Hat, Tee Shirt or hoodie
04:00 Cooperative of Backyard Farmers
06:27 Front Yard Permaculture fruit forest tour
08:58 Growing his microgreen cuttings
09:27 Learn about Finger Limes- How to pick a ripe one
14:30 Using a Tree as a trellis growing structure
16:17 Start of Backyard tour grown over concrete
17:14 How to grow more food in less space
18:56 How you can grow lettuce in a concrete mixxing tub
20:30 Learn more about Sub Irrigated Planters (SIP Beds / Wicking Beds)
25:00 Main Area of Farm growing in wicking beds
26:15 Growing Fresh Sorrel in Wicking Beds
29:28 Growing Uncommon Crops and Nutritious Crops
30:00 Stinging Nettle Leaves from baker Creek Seed
30:34 Growing Green Shisho
32:05 Growing Green Onions/ Chives
32:50 Growing Tulsi Basi in the Winter
33:25 Growing Purple Tree Collards for Production
35:07 Attracting Birds: Good or Bad?
35:45 What to do with your Catepillars you find in your garden
36:30 Growing Microgreens in a Greenhouse
37:54 How Microgreens are growing in the Greenhouse
39:12 Grow more food in less space
40:02 Growing Sunflower greens in smaller trays to make it easier
41:23 Growing Microgreens differently than all other growers - in Cell trays
43:47 No longer growing in Aquaponics - Growong Hydroponics
45:26 How he grows watercress using Hydroponics
46:45 Growing Duck Weed and selling for $1 an ounce
48:30 Summer Vegetable Aquaponics Recommendation
49:27 Verti-Gro Vertical Growing System
50:46 Garden tour continues
51:25 Constructing an Easy Shade Structure
52:08 Don't pull out non-selling vegetables before you do this
53:10 my favorite herb to grow
53:38 Bioremediation to Clean Swimming Pool and Growing Plants & Fish
56:30 Best Place for a compost pile
58:04 What you should do with your compost pile
59:33 Why its best to grow your own fruit trees
1:01:30 Reusing Water to grow a banana "tree"
1:02:05 Growing Sprouts Automatically
1:07:05 How to Create Additional Revenue for your farm with unsold produce
1:09:50 complete hydroponic nutrients that grow vegetables on his farm
1:12:50 Interview with Mike from Whisper Farms
1:13:07 Why did you start to grow all this food on the property?
1:13:40 How did you get to plant a fruit forest in the front yard
1:15:18 Why did you start growing in Wicking Beds?
1:17:30 What is the biggest challenge with wicking beds?
1:18:30 What kind of wood did you use to build your wicking beds?
1:19:55 What are the benefits of growing wicking beds?
1:20:50 What plants grow best in a wicking bed?
1:21:30 Do you grow red veined sorrel?
1:21:40 Why did you stop using Aquaponics and convert to Hydroponics?
1:27:50 Why Growing Chickens are not the best for maximizing Profit
1:32:02 Did your diet change after you stopped keeping 100 chickens?
1:33:18 Why did you keep some chickens on your farm?
1:35:20 How did you end up with 100 Chickens at one point?
1:38:30 Why are you using cell trays to grow microgreens?
1:40:43 How to get away with selling your produce for $16 a pound?
1:44:06 On an average Sale, how much do people spend?
1:45:53 What do you sell besides the $1/ounce greens at the farmers market?
1:47:20 How did you come up come up with your automatic sprouting table?
1:50:12 What did work on your backyard farm?
1:53:27 How to you sterilize your microgreen trays?
1:55:18 Why do you grow using hydroponic nutrients instead of organic?
2:01:29 My views on Synthetic vs Organic Nutrients
2:09:10 Any Final Words of Wisdom from a Backyard farmer?
2:10:20 How can people find you and your farm?
Referenced Episodes:
How to Grow Microgreens inside and Make $100,000
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How to Grow Microgreens in Soil + Sun
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How to Best Eat Microgreens for Health Benefit
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Beyond Sustainable Costa Rica Homestead
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I greatly appreciate these timestamps!
I LOVE THIS time stamp breakdown. I finally don’t have to take a million notes. Great video as always! Eating plants 🌱 is a right of passage for gardeners. Keep eating stuff on your videos... especially with long videos like this you probably are hungry 😋
fuck off. publicity, usless chatter, boring uninteresting, bullshit! show facts don't talk about your personal shit.
please add close caption to your videos,, Thanks could not understand some of the plants names that you talked about
@@thegreendabbler6987 you can shut up people that has to use curse words should shut up
Hey bro I don't care about your religious or political views. I appreciate all the time and work you've put into your videos. You've taught me a ton while keeping me entertained. Thank you for all the free lessons!
"I love juice filled sacks" needs to be a t-shirt.
Absolutely love the poassion fruits growing in that tree. Very smart and a super use of space. Thanks for taking us along John.
Yeahhhh! We all need to get with friends and neighbors and start grows. I bet we would have less race riots ha?! All part of the scam. Let's tell everyone about gardening. The Vegetarian Fitness Bachelor.
I have papayas but want to add poassion too 😂
Ya man I follow and love your channel tremendously! Love your work and dedication to this niche of youtube!
Got to love the tranquil water flow while growing things.
Yes, I only recently found this channel! This video was incredibly helpful to me. I am starting my first permaculture garden, and this video covered so many greens I was considering! I live in Indiana, but tasty greens are universal. Thank you soooooooo much for this in-depth video!
Awesome show today, Thanks John!
Dude for real bro, you’re one of the best human beings alive. Totally felt you on the “one specific thing we don’t agree on...” tip you were on. I feel like I totally relate to you bro and it’s awesome to know there are people as open as you out there. People just like me. Thanks mang. Maybe we’ll meet one day cause I know for sure we’d be good friends.
One of my favorite videos you've made dude. Keep up the great content!
I love you, brother! You are doing a great job, sharing your knowledge. Pioneers ate 2 meals a day. I’m good with that. The marketers wanted more money, so Advertisement Adds another meal. I’m happy for you!
Oh so the 3 meal a day was made upppp??? 🤯
The farmers market idea is a great one. Thanks.
This guy is so wholesome, i am pretty different from him, but man I love watching your videos.
Great story
John, you are so funny. I always love your videos! You’re my inspiration.
your videos have been real entertaining and educational thank you for what you do. i live in the LA area I've started a rookie compost and worm bins and a few planters helps a lot with stress. don't get caught up in the mess. take care
I have been watching your channel for a little while now and i can only say thanks for the information you choose to share. But i also want to say how honest and mature your intro was regarding different political or religious opinions. I now have so much more respect for you, even though i had lots before. Thank you, if only more people felt this way we’d all be able to get along, and possibly find peace...
I have noticed more birds that hang in the trees around my garden. Really cool watching nature react to things you make.
Love the idea of the microgreen trays, starting up soon so will be trying this one out :)
70 year liner reminds me of the plastic benches and decking that was supposed to last decades in my hometown but in less than 10 years boards are having to be replaced from drying out and cracking awesome setup great video
The 209triangle harold Wilton galt thanks 4 the video John. Jah bless all
Great visit to Mikes house today...now I know there’s a difference between aquaponics and hydroponics...I just expanded my small 4x6 raised bed into a 8x12 keyhole style raised....and bought a bunch of heirloom seeds for spring...thanks John for taking me, as a viewer, along with you...
Great show. Finally found a great raised bed. I am handicapped and need a high raised bed. Thank you John.
Mike has a nice farm. Dig that sprouting set-up. Thanks John and Mike.
Sitting on that sack of seeds. OHOH that wild wood weed
Love ya Man
I LOVE YOU!!!! ❤.. At this point I'm gonna just let you know you are so good for the Earth..and we need so much more of you!! Thanks buddy!!!
I've watched so many of these videos. This one was long and worth every minute watching.
Natural swimming pools are awesome! Everyone should look into those.
Very cool idea. I think I'm going to try that here in Florida during the winter months when we lack rain.
I've been wanting to try hydroponics! Little pests and diseases is #1 for me..lol we can grow a lot all year long here in Fl, but it's a struggle with heat, rain pests ad diseases. My garden is doing so good now that the weather calmed down here for my cool weather crops. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah we have finger limes here in Australia!!! It’s a pretty cool fruit I agree!
We love you!!! You're great watch you all the time and excited for this next growing year
John you make me laugh
So far you have always been innocent of any politicised ideas. You have also been the most proliferative vocal person for ideasm of healthy leafy green consumerism. You have always been positive and a person of goodwill. Nobody's gonna say anything negative about you. Ok?? From a fellow colleague who produces and consumes healthy greens and vegies. John Wilson from Hemet, CA. Hey John please don't make me laugh with apologies. Honestly I think the people watching your videos should apologize to you for their faults. Keep spreading the good word. Ok??
Your political and religious views shouldn't and dont matter. I think you are a absolute wonderful great person that is passionate about giving others success. Sometimes when I am not having a great day and watch a new video i feel uplifted. I love growing and learning. Long time subscriber here just wanted to say thank you!
Fabulous...from my deck garden in the middle of NYC. Love it.
Great episode!
Very well explained👏
Thanks for sharing a lot of knowledge. It will be of a great help especially for those who are beginners.
Stay safe. Stay healthy.
More blessings to come😇💚
I really like your videos. Instructional and very inspiring. Thank you.
Here in central Fl, I will have to run my aquaponic PVC about two feet underground between the fish tank, & the grow beds, hopefully keeping the water a constant 72°
I'm in central fl too. I love growing this time of year! I want to try hydroponics too really soon. I do have a cloning machine I use and love.
Stacey Here we grow again did you end up starting a hydro garden?
Awesome backyard farm 🤩 Thanks for sharing!!
Mike wood!!! Love you brother!
I always enjoy your knowledge of Agriculture
John, love your Bluth's Frozen Banana stand t-shirt : )
I am learning a whole lot from this video
We love you and your AWESOME show
Some great stuff there. Some say hydroponics are the future of food security.
Cool guy with good taste in plants
Got my first love it.
I heard that Farmer Mike is a small man with a big plan! The tenderest in town baby !
I'm here because i'm passionate about growing. Been watching for years. I have no idea your political views or religion, but that isn't important. Being a centrist agnostic myself makes it easy to enjoy any civil persons company.
Absolutely amazing interesting video!!
Awesome vid John.
You are seriously the Bob Ross of gardening. I appreciate your videos reigniting my love of growing food.
Love love ❤. Both of you amazing. Keep on doing what you do
I'm extremely impressed with this message.
Recently I've been kinda stuck deciding between hydro/aquaponic, & soil/composting gardening, & it's all what necessity dictates, at this time.
My yard soil is far too sandy, & although I have a compost pile in progress it's far from ready, & I can't bring myself to purchase all the potting, or topsoil I would require...
Thanks for the info on Sea-90, salt Peter, & everything else...
I was impressed with the amount of organic material you get from hydroponics which can be composted. I'm in a similar situation so my main focus with hydroponics is to grow food with compost material.
You do know that you can do row Composting! Also put an ad on Craigslist or local FB for grass clipping and other organic matter maybe stop by your local grocer and as if they have any old produce! make your rows and dump it in.cover it and let it go! PS do not toss the sour milk it is great fertilizer!
I love this set up! What a great place to call home. The pool idea is super cool! Love it! Thanks for the tour!
Not sure if you have thought about touring MIGardner lately but he has got some good things going on, I think he lucked out with purchase of a building with artesian well inside it as well. Home garden turned into full on business. Love it. Working on mine as well :)
Thank for being amazing, your awesome 😎
Awsome,very educational video.
Ye, I'd considered using the big plug trays for micros but I reckon what you save on soil you spend in cleaning time
Don't worry about da haters John - I think you're great!
Great to use the caviar balls of the finger limes in vegan sushi!👍
1,000👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Would love to know more about his sprouts and how I can make that set up!
Go back very interesting
I grow my passionfruit up a tree to! Can you please do a video on planting and harvesting Ashwaganda
Thanks for all the info. Looking back on your hydroponic VS. aquaponic conversation, whats your opinion now in 2020? It sounded like Tilapia was the fish that was used. What about a different fish that is more resilient to water temperature / environment changes throughout the year? Thanks for passing on the knowledge!
We grow french sorrel and it is good in salad, and makes a kick ass soup.
All good bro. We don’t agree on meat but love ya! Love plants too
I enjoy so much this man's mannerisms--so respectful.
Excellent
I’ll bet that I am polar opposite from you on both politics and religion…. I appreciate your channel. I go to other channels for those things. In the past we all could disagree on those and still have a beer and a conversation. So cheers to you on that, and thank you for the good info.
Stay on topic my friend.
That guy has a crazy set up. Don't think my wife would let me do that.
Greener-Garden you’d be surprised maybe try one small thing at a time.
I want to try one!!
26:00. The greens he wants us to grow. French Sorroll. You can call it lemon spinach and people might want to buy it more. It's a perennial that is the 1st thing to come back every year In michigan.
I’m sticking with you. Forget the religion and politics. Healthy living is more important.
Basically! Basically! Basically! Man..there is much knowledge in these videos but the dude says basically way to many times! But..I'm gonna get drunk with my friends..this is my idea..I'm gonna play this video and every time he says basically ..we take a shot! How long do you think we will last?! Lmfao
"i eat more plants then most people", I guess that makes two of us xD. I eat several serves of multiple different fruits and vegetables daily, typically my day starts with 3 bananas, 3 or 4 pieces of assorted stone fruit and 3 pieces of assorted citrus fruit and well, when custard apples are in season....don't even get me started (Nah seriously they are so good but) and a 20km pushbike ride (got to spend all those calories somehow yeah?). Good to hear someone else is on the fresh food train brother, power to you and awesome content! :D
happen to be wearing my bluth banana shirt too rn!
Amazing Thanks
Excellent video! I thought it might be a bit long but I watched it all through a few minutes at a time. This guy Mike grows a lot like I do and he seems to have come to the same conclusions by the same failures.
Food one of the three things we all have in common.
Everybody poops.
Hi John, I see the same thing here in Louisiana at the Farmer’s Markets. I want more fresh local grown food and less crafts and large farm produce.
haha love the comedy😂
GRATITUDE 💥🐟🐟💥
John people like the dried greens not only because of laziness but because of shelf life. Not all of us can eat as many fresh greens as you. When working a regular job they aren't as fresh when wilted in a lunch box and the time it takes to dehydrate and storage space for dehydrator in these days of tiny homes is not always accessible let alone space in fridge or freezer.
Love this! I got a dehydrator this year and it’s amazing! I think I have sorrel growing wild in my yard, how can I verify this? Is there some kind of local agency I can take it to, to verify? I am skittish to try eating it if not sure.
Someday, I really hope I can be in a place in my life to be able to do this. For now, I'm just wondering how you can test soil and water for chemicals. Seems like healthy, clean substrate is the first step.
Check out Gardening with Leon, he shows how to make a smaller version of the SIP. and another one to see is AlboPepper on the SIP builds.
😳🤯coool!!
Non-edible trees are important too. They get much larger than fruit trees and provide shade and habitat for wildlife. Not to mention food for wildlife in some cases. You don't need to have a 100% edible landscape, everything works together. Flowers help your fruits and vegetables by attracting pollinators.
Other than that, what a great video. Thank you
Hi, John. I love this, and ALL your videos. They all are very good, and I have enjoyed them and learned a lot. You're the man! One question though, How do you GROW chickens? Do you bury them in the ground up to their head, and then , water them regularly? Do you need to fertilize? Should you grow your chickens in full sun, or partial shade? LOL. Just joking, buddy. Have a great one, and keep the great videos coming, my friend.
LOVE THIS!! we busy with a urban farming project , would love some help, we based in cape town , South Africa
Hi I garden here in Mungupi Mungupi AZ. Tuba city Arizona
I'll be honest, I've become very disappointed in Farmer's Markets. I was watching a video on youtube(can't remember the name of it) where they did an undercover piece and found many of these foods aren't even being grown organically let along on these peoples properties. Though that maybe a little different in California because they have stricter rules. I went to a Famer's market in my area and bought some peppers. The guy told me they were Bull Nose peppers and after some research found out he had sold me some Banana peppers. I know in our area many of these sellers buy their food in bulk from auctions too. So you have no idea where it came from, or if it was even grown organically ( chances are high it wasn't). Farmers markets need to go back to the backyard growers like it was intended.
You are getting the same stuff you can buy in the store! I have seen produce with the UPC sicker on them! That tells me they are buying from the wholesale market to resell! Where IO live in Colorado we do have a legit Farmers market everything is localy grown!
We get watermelon from my CSA with store UPC codes. That is because my CSA sells them to our local grocery stores too! They don't purposely put a sticker on our shares, it's just more efficient for them. 😊
I’ve been at farmers markets in New Zealand where they sell papayas and pineapples with Dole stickers still on them 🤦
You’re better off going to A large food chain store to buy your organic vegetables because it exists extremely expensive and time consuming to get a label for organically grown most farmers who sell at the farmers market are just trying to make a living. I think it’s also depends on the market, the city, and the bylaws are different per market. I would check online farmers market in your area to scope out organic farmers.
Whoever told farmers we like stickers on our food must sell stickers. HATE stickers.
nice
At 1:07 when john talk about using left over greens to make powder and selling an 8 ounce bottle of it for $20 bucks, though it was interesting, though why should I grow food then just go to the farmers markets ask for all their left overs and do this.. would like to him to prove that he sells 8 ounce bottles for $20 and how many
Can someone point me in the direction of Johns latest recommendations for water filtration for showers? I have found multiple videos.
Ps. I am attempting to have clean water throughout my apartment for a garden, drinking water and all of the faucets.
You mentioned Sea 90 and an alternative with less sodium. I couldn't understand the name. Searched for Growful but couldn't find it. Thanks
Mike Murphy unfiltered news is New California youtuber sounding the alarm.
Haha, loving the T-Shirt!
I want to try and grow food send me seeds, its interesting I like the food medicine part also. And seeds from the memory plant.