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Decide to Grow Food!

Today we're launching the daily 10 minute tip at 10 to show you how to grow your own food! Take a portion of your yard and prepare it for food growing. Research what grows best in your area and which plants grow best together. Grow what you eat!

Create Good Soil, Recycle Organic Matter to Compost

Before you start growing food, you have to make sure the soil is healthy. One way to create healthy soil is by using compost. Compost is a nutrient-rich, dark and crumbly organic substance.

The Health Benefits of Dandelions

In our ignorance, we have been spraying pesticides on dandelions, a plant that not only benefits the soil by breaking up impacted soil so that our food crops can take root, but also is of great health benefits to human beings. 

Discoveing The Burdock Plant and Its Uses

We encourage you to explore what is growing in your yard and find out what is edible. Download the App "Picture This" and see what you find that you can eat!

Making Dandelion Tea and Other Recipes

We sample our home-made dandelion tea and review other recipes that can be made from the dandelion plant. Researdh more online yourself!

Sauteed Dandelion Greens

We're trying out one of the dandelion recipes today - sauteed dandelion greens! Try it at home from the dandelions you pick in your yard! You may even want to pick some dandelions and freeze them for later.

Making Mulberry Leaf Tea

Another amazing plant we discovered is a mulberry bush growing rightin our yard, another plant with haking qualities for the bodyl. we'll take you through the simple process of making mulberry tea out of the mulberry leaves.

The Benefits of White Clover

There is a common plant spreading across your yard and if you don't recognize it, you may dismiss it as just another "weed."  Chances are, it is white clover, a plant that is both edible and medicinal and is good for the soil.  We'll explore a few recipes.

Discovering Daisy Fleabane

Today we're looking at another unknown plant growing freely in the yard called "Daisy Fleabane."  You'll be amazed at the medicinal uses of something you may have been overlooking as just another "weed." Check your yard, see if you find it!

Prepare The Space For Your Food Garden

Look at what you have and where you can plant your food crops.  You may want to first examine what is already growing there, and how it can be used. You may be able to share space  with your food crops.

Recipes For Native Plants

Our foreparents not only recognized native plants as food, they learned how to prepare it with spices so that it tasted good. Today, we'll pick burdock leaves and roots and look at some future recipes we'll show you how to prepare.

Make Healing Tea For Free From Plants InYour Yard

As dandelion grow freely this Spring around your yard, take advantage of this natural healer for so many common ailments! Find out different ways to make tea from your already growing plants.

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A Veggie Burger with Burdock Leaves (Italian Carduni)

Burdock leaves are common in the urban areas of North America, but many city dwellers are not aware of its edibility.  Today we share a tasty Italian dish - carduni - made from burdock leaves.  Try it at home!  …

Making Burdock Root Tea

Burdock root tea is commonly sold in health stores and is widely known among members of the health conscious community for its healing qualities.  Today we dig deep under the ground for burcock roots and make a pot of burdock root tea.

A Recipe For Fried Dandelions Appalachian Style

Want a delicious snack? Even before you begin your Springtime food planting, you can create a tasty meal from the many dandelions growing freely in your yard! Today we're sharing a recipe for Appalachian Style fried dandelions!  …

Sweet Potatoes, Broccoli and Collard Greens

Before you plant, you have to plan! We  want to eat sweet potatoes, broccoli and collard greens, so  today its time to research and find out when and where is the best place to plant them for a timely harvest this fall.

White Clover Leaf Tea, A Blood Purifyer

 Mother Nature has a plant that helps in the blood purifying process.  If we drank white clover leaf tea, could we possibly help our kidneys and liver wor better? We'll show you a simple way to may a tea that may just transform your life!

Veggie Burdock Burgers

You may have a clump of healthy burdock leaves growing in  your yard that you can eat as pot of greens, a bowl of soup, or even a delicious veggie burger! We'll show you how to make it! Just follow these steps.  You can freeze a batch of Burdock leaves and save them for later!

Making Burdock Soup

You can make some delicious soup from those burdock leaves growing freely in your yard.  We have cooked up a big pot of burdock greens and added some more water and seasoning to the ingredients - tomatoes, onions, garlic, and a nice pan of fried tofu.

Planning Where To Place Your Vegetables 

Growing food is a strategic process. Some plants grow best next to others, some don't do well at all next to others. Today we'll plan the placement of our vegetables based on how well they get along with each other.

Transplanting Vegetables To The Ground

If you bought a plant, or even if you grew it from a seed in the little container, it's time to take it out of the little container and transplant it to the ground. We'll show you how, as we follow our plan for strategic placement of plants in the garden.

Making Canada Goldenrod Tea

We have a symbiotic relationship with all life, particularly with the plants growin in our midst. Today we discovered another plant that can be used to enhance our health - Canada Goldenrod.  It produces yellow flowers, but today we're using the leaves to make tea.  Try it at home!

Building Your Compost Pile

Composting is an ongoing process, as you continue to gather organic materials from your kitchen and combine it with soil and grass and leaves from your yard, so it can decompose ajd create new healthy soil. that contains Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium.

Gently Removing Unwanted Plants

Your vegetable garden needs daily attention, to make sure unwanted plants aren't invading the space and competing for nutrients in the soil.  We'll examine the spread of these "uninvited plants" and show you how to gently remove them. Never, ever use pesticides or "weed killer."   

Maintenance After Heavy Rains

After heavy rains, you need to monitor the plant growth in your garden and make sure each one is still standing and healthy, and not being crowded out by the unwanted plants that may compete for space. Make sure to check your garden daily.

Making Sauteed Mustard Greens

Our mustard greens have grown large enough to harvest, so we can pick a few from the outside edges and let the rest keep growing.  You can eat the leaves all season long.  We'll try a new recipe and demonstrate how to make "Sauteed Mustard Greens. 

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