Growing Your Own Healthy Food
After losing my father to diabetes and heart disease, my mother and brother to cancer, I met a customer (J.B.) who had an amazing recovery in health by raising his own food focusing on replenishing the soil with nutrients.
My own exposure working as a training consultant for the largest fertilizer company in the world (Agrium under Crop Production Services) shocked me when I witnessed how they were farming these mega corporate farms with hy-bred pumped up crops working the ground year round. There is no way the soil is giving us the natural nutrients we are suppose to have.
When plants are grown organically in a true natural environment they build up immunities that are believed to be passed on to our immune system, that combined with a balance of the natural elements we are supposed to be getting can change your entire health system.
I offer a organic COMPOST TEA to add to Gardens a couple times a during the growing season.
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My answer is to help make it easier for folks with smaller residents to be able to grow healthy food full of the nutrients we need, in smaller easier to use gardens; bringing the soil in to them in smaller containers and rotating the containers so they always have the most organic nutrient packed greens ready to be clipped and thrown in the blender to make a healthy drink at least once a day.
I am working on the Garden Cart and we are seeing if we can convert the local fruit boxes into a form of the raised bed system to ease back pain when gardening.
However I am getting inquires from people around the country about the idea and if they can get anything right now.
There are a few options:
However I am getting inquires from people around the country about the idea and if they can get anything right now.
There are a few options:
My Version of a Garden Cart
Easy to roll into the best sun
Easy to work at with a counter around the top
Adjustable racks so I can go from 6" to 14" pots
Complete automatic irrigation system
Automatic fertilizer system in the irrigation
Green House ability or roll into the garage
Grow Light ability for year round food
..................................................................Here it is...
Self Contained watering system with automatic clock and Fertilizer
Simple add on Green House ability
Price completely depends on how complex you want it:
Pictured is the 4Lx2Wx2H: The cart alone with the sides, adjustable trays and drainage catch system inside is around $425 (There are bigger carts for a hundred or more depending on how big you go - the one pictured is very light to move around and well balanced)
Add the Irrigation for around $88
Add the automatic fertilizer (very important to feed potted plants) $133
Add the overhead rack for a Greenhouse cover $44, Covers run around $112
You can find Grow lights at any Garden center
What makes it unique?
If you can excuse my crude sketches...I'll try to show the unique inside.
you can click photo for larger look at it
The interior racks to set the post on are adjustable to accommodate 6" to 14" deep pots.
The handle side of the Cart is open at the bottom to make it easy to put a small heater in front of - allowing the heat to move up through the potted soil, raising the ambient temperature of the soil so it can grow year round.
Automatic Irrigation and Fertilization:
Shown is the added Auto fertilizer which is filled from the top with the recommended organic worm tea or any water soluble fertilizer correct for your plants - then to a filter (fertilizers can jam up your drip systems if you do not have this filter) followed by a pressure reducer for the drip system.
As you can see in the photo
The base cart has the ability (grooves are put in where the irrigation panel slides in etc) to add on the irrigation and fertilizer later if you want. You're welcome to purchase the base cart and put in the irrigation system you want yourself too, so it's easily adaptable.
GARDENS pay for themselves within months...
DO THE MATH:
Price Check buying Greens from the Grocery Store
Carrots $1.29 lbTomatoes $2.49 a lbBaby Spinach $2.39 6ozKale $1.99 6ozSwiss Chard $2.50 half lbAverage Week of Fresh Greens averages $6.35 a day or $200 a
month or $2,400 per person a year
And this is with produce that you have no idea how it was raised, what chemicals or genetics were used and has been raised in soil that is depleted of nutrients you need.Now add sickness, cancer, heart disease, diabetes to the equation and we can't afford NOT to take care of the most important asset we have...our health.
How you can start your own "health recovery" If you don't have the time to garden, we will help you set up a small Healthy Greens Garden like the one shown or we can put it on wheels so you can move it to convenient spots in the yard, set it up with an automatic watering system and an automatic organic fertilizer system then rotate the soil and crops as needed. You DO have the time to walk out and clip the fresh greens, plop them in the blender and make a health shake once a day (it takes less time than going through McDonalds and killing your health)._____________________________________________________________________
I hope to have more information in the future on pots and soils to use...stay tuned.
UPDATE 10/10/13 We have a fantastic source for Worm Castings for your Garden = $3 for 25lbs and it can be delivered, become a follower of the blog and email me for the contact phone number
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Why we do not promote Hydroponics
One of the key reasons I am helping my clients with healthy food is that my experience in the farm side working for large chemical companies has opened my eyes to the depletion in our soils and after watching so many friends deal with disease ranging from Cancer to Heart Disease to Toxic Peanut allergies I strongly believe our food is one of the biggest parts of the problem.
Our bodies have the power through the immune system to protects us - that immune system is promoted through the natural process plants go through when growing in organic soil...
Lack of Bacteria Effects
- Plants grown in soil, rather than in hydroponic systems, have no exposure to several soil-based bacteria that coat the roots of plants. Plants grown in soil often develop immune factors to protect them from varying types of bacteria which are consequently passed on to individuals who eat
the plant. Over time, eating plants, fruits or vegetables that have been grown in soil may help give you a stronger immune system.
Read more: http://www.ehow.com/info_8581948_negative-effects-hydroponics.html#ixzz2Z2yFq1bl
Why Grow and Eat your own fresh food?
Let's look at just one vegetable: Swiss Chard, it's not just the complete vitamins that metabolize better in your body but the minerals that you're lacking for good health.
Vitamins
Amounts Per Selected Serving
%DV
Vitamin A
2202
IU
44%
Vitamin C
10.8
mg
18%
Vitamin D
~
~
Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol)
0.7
mg
3%
Vitamin K
299
mcg
374%
Thiamin
0.0
mg
1%
Riboflavin
0.0
mg
2%
Niacin
0.1
mg
1%
Vitamin B6
0.0
mg
2%
Folate
5.0
mcg
1%
Vitamin B12
0.0
mcg
0%
Pantothenic Acid
0.1
mg
1%
Choline
6.5
mg
Betaine
0.1
mg
Minerals
Amounts Per Selected Serving
%DV
Calcium
18.4
mg
2%
Iron
0.6
mg
4%
Magnesium
29.2
mg
7%
Phosphorus
16.6
mg
2%
Potassium
136
mg
4%
Sodium
76.7
mg
3%
Zinc
0.1
mg
1%
Copper
0.1
mg
3%
Manganese
0.1
mg
7%
Read More http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2399/2#ixzz2Zjdv6Utq
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