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318: How to grow your own food & the power of superweeds | Daphne Miller, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Daphne Miller, M.D.: “We should stop embracing the idea of superfoods, things that are going to magically keep us healthy.”  Miller, a family physician and science journalist, joins mbg co-CEO, to discuss the easiest foods to grow yourself that pack in nutrients, plus: - How to create a pocket garden - How to know if your soil is good or bad - The best superweeds to add to your diet - How to get the most nutrient bang for your buck - The most common eco-conscious errors shoppers make Referenced in the episode: - Miller's book, The Jungle Effect. - Rural and agriculture writer Sarah Mock's book, Farm (And Other F Words). - Ron Finley's TEDTalk on guerrilla gardening. - Gaia's Garden, a book on small-scale perennial gardening. - A study showing how edible wild plants could grow in contaminated soil. Enjoy this episode sponsored by Cotton! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:08.0

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Performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Daphne Miller is a practicing family physician,

0:51.9

bestselling author, associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco

0:57.2

and research scientist at the University of California in Berkeley. For the past 15 years,

1:02.5

her work is focused on aligning agriculture and conservation with human health. And today we're

1:08.0

going to cover that as well as my new favorite term here on MyBuddyGreen superweeds.

1:15.5

Dr. Daphne, welcome. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be on this podcast with you.

1:23.6

Well, it's so great to finally have you and let's start at the beginning. How did you get interested

1:32.0

in health and the environment and global upbringing included? How did this all come to be a passion

1:39.6

for you? Yeah, well, I am the daughter of a career Peace Corps parents and grew up overseas

1:51.1

mostly in North Africa and Morocco and Tunisia. And the thing about being in the Peace Corps is

1:59.2

it's kind of the opposite of being a military child in that you're it's similar in the sense that

2:06.1

you are kind of dragged around from country to country but there's this expectation that you're

2:12.3

going to live very much in a local community go to local schools learn the local language and

2:19.4

very much integrate yourself into the culture. And so I think for me from a very young age there

2:26.1

was this set of skills of how do you get clopped down in a new place and become a part of the fabric

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