Join the "Eat-All Greens" Garden Revolution
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- "I spent five minutes spreading the compost on the driveway, two minutes sprinkling the seed, and maybe five minutes to harvest the whole patch. And I had maybe twenty pounds of nutritious leafy greens." From this spur-of-the-moment idea, plant breeder Carol Deppe spent decades finding the most productive "eat-all greens" varieties with edible stalks. With three or four crops a year in a bed no larger than 4x12 feet, you can produce a couple hundred pounds of greens. The author of The Tao of Vegetable Gardening believes that this could revolutionize nutritious food production in urban food deserts, small plots and even commercial greens production. Episode 282. [caroldeppe.com]
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I really admire Carol Deppe´s books- she goes FAR deeper than any other garden book I have ever read. Totally unique.
I've read _Breed your own Vegetable Varieties_ by CD and I loved it. It was one of the most wonderful books I had ever read. I go back and re-read parts of it now and then. But re eating plants without washing them, - I wonder how many local dogs had peed on the mustard greens that CD didn't wash before eating. I know in my garden, I often dug into my soil with my hands - and came upon cat poop that I didn't know was there. This was despite my garden being fenced in. But local domestic cats and feral cats had found away in. Rabbits, dogs too.
Carol laughs so nice
I wish Dr. Deppe had her own channel. All of her books are great.
What an extraordinary guest. I'll give her technique a try. I enjoyed watching every second of this interview. Thank you.
I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for making them.
Thanks, Jay. Feel free, everyone, to suggest topics you're interested in. ~Janaia
Thank you for your videos!
just finished Breed your own vegetable varieties. Wonderful stuff,the understanding of selection for desired trates helps me to understand the seed offerings by companies. invaluable! reading Buffalow bird womans garden now, I am looking forward to my next garden. all books by Carol Deppe are delightful informative and wise. I hope she is working on another one.
vey interesting interview. thank you .Actually Janaia I was waiting for you to mention the squashes in the background. Very different from the one I grow in the UK.
What are they ?
Joel, those are Carol's own variety of Candystick Dessert Delicata Squash. We'll discuss them a bit in the next show with her -- based on her book "The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-reliance in Uncertain Times: Including the Five Crops You Need to Survive and Thrive--Potatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash and Eggs." You'll also see two other squash varieties that grow and store well.
If you want to try that variety in the UK, you can get seeds from her Fertile Valley Seed Company at caroldeppe.com. I can verify it fits its name: light, flavorful and perfect for a dessert when you add some pumpkin-pie spices.
Eggs?? Is that eggplant, or eggs? I never thought of eggs as a crop, and there is a lot of talk about how eggs have lots of fat and cholesterol, and too much protein? I like the idea of eating nothing but greens ... at least for me now. I want to do hydroponics though. Nice video.
Do a search for 'eggs perfect food' and you will find lots of information that shows why eggs are just that, perfect food. There is increasing evidence that cholesterol is not connected with heart disease. Again, do a search on 'cholesterol does not cause heart disease'. As for fat, we need fat in our diets. Search 'fat is good for you'. Eggs are wonderful. Eat as many as you like.
I think you might be referring to my (host, Janaia) comment that leafy greens and eggs would be a perfect diet for me. Carol's prior book The Resilient Gardener discusses the good storage crops (beans, potatoes, winter squash, corn) and eggs (esp. duck eggs) for a well-rounded food supply. My mention of eggs goes back to that book...as well as my own dietary experience!
Eggs are a near-perfect food -- a good balance of macronutrients. Greens alone don't provide the quality fats the body needs for joint health, hormones, and much more. Nor sufficient levels of protein. But greens are the best for cleansing!
Interesting video and point of view.
peakmoment But, how many eggs do cows and horses eat? They seem to get enough protein, no?
Avocados, flax seeds, chia, etc have fats that people can use.
The fat argument makes more sense than the protein argument though.
It's hard to be completely self-sufficient, and an egg or two now and then is probably not bad, and even good, but all eggs all the time I'm not too sure about.
justgivemethetruth Respectfully, comparing an omnivore like a human to a herbivore ruminant like a cow is hardly fair. Their fermentative digestion is made to break down grass for protein. We can't do that. If you choose not to eat eggs, that's certainly your prerogative, but our pointy molars, acidic stomachs, and other aspects of our digestion really do point towards a diet that includes animal proteins and fats, not just plants. Eating vastly MORE plants than the average American would is probably fantastic for you! But we are not herbivorous, and we are not ruminants. There are differences.
Marialla
Mooooo, if you think I am being unfair to cows. ;-)
I've heard this lecture so many times I'm tired of it. The fact is that human beings eat eggs and they give us nutrition. That is not the question. And it does not take special equipment to digest protein from greens. Going into our the design of our bodies is a foolish line of arguing, because we cannot talk to the designer. The special ability of ruminants to break cellulose down into sugars and energy, not protein; like one burns wood. Currently they are trying to find a bacteria to break/digest cellulose into oil, i.e. energy.
If someone wants to eat eggs, it's OK with me, but if you are an average American and have the weight,diet and health problems most Americans have, eggs are not an ideal food. If you are starving or do not have health issues, eggs would probably be fine, but if you have plaque on your arteries every time you eat eggs you miss an opportunity to remove plaque from your arteries.
If you are an adult it is likely you can get protein from other sources or even some of necessary fats. I exaggerated above, I would not eat ALL greens, but greens are super good for health problems caused by the American diet, which being an American past a certain age I was brainwashed into like most of my friends.
I am not against eating animal protein, but there are problems with it in the average American diet, and the average American store, and farm, etc. Once you are grown though you really do not need that much protein, and animal fat in exceess of after life of excess is not that great either.
That's just my opinion.