412: From Seed to Harvest: How True Leaf Market Can Help You Grow a Successful Garden with Parker Garlitz
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What is Vitamin L and why is it important? What are cover crops and what do we need to know about them? How can we grow wheatgrass, sprouts, microgreens and more at home?
In episode 412 of Food Heals, Allison Melody interviews Parker Garlitz, co-founder of True Leaf Market, an independent non-GMO seed company that has been curating premium seed brands since 1974 to answer these questions and more.
Parker says, the modern diet often lacks food that is actually alive when you eat it, as even grocery store produce has been off the vine for days to weeks before it gets to you. Living foods such as sprouts, microgreens, wheatgrass juice, and fresh garden produce eaten right after harvest can provide valuable nutrition.
"We believe that everyone should have access to indoor and outdoor growing," said Garlitz. "We want to build and rebuild communities through growing by making it an accessible practice for all. We hope everyone can experience the joy of growing."
Garlitz also discussed the benefits of growing cover crops, which he says is the most affordable and naturally sustainable way to revitalize garden soil for the coming growing season.
True Leaf Market curates premium brands such as Mountain Valley Seeds for conventional, Sustainable Seeds for organics, Kitazawa Seeds for Asian varieties, Mountain Valley Hybrids for F1 varieties, and Handy Pantry for sprouting. The company is dedicated to helping anyone begin growing and provides customer support and online growing information.
"We are intent on building strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and the home garden seed industry alike, to ensure that we are providing the best seed possible," said Garlitz. "We hope you'll make us your seed company of choice."
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| 0:00.0 | holistic voice presents the food heals podcast with your hosts alison melody and susie hardy join the food hills nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself warning side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality thoughts of living longer an increase in sexual activity feelings of joy cravings for kale and kinawa, and a spike in Tinder matches. In rare cases, people have experienced a |
| 0:24.6 | strong desire to put in their lulu lemons and take a yoga class while drinking a green juice. |
| 0:28.5 | If you experience any of these symptoms, text your priest immediately. All right, welcome, Food |
| 0:32.8 | Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Alison Melody. What is vitamin L and why is it important? What are cover |
| 0:38.7 | crops and what do we need to know about them? How can we grow wheatgrass, sprouts, microgreens, |
| 0:44.7 | and more at home? My guest, Parker Garlets, answers these questions and more on today's |
| 0:49.7 | episode of Food Heels. Parker is one of the co-founders of the independent non-GMO seed company, |
| 0:55.5 | True Leaf Market. You've heard me talk about it. I'm having a blast shopping there almost on a |
| 1:00.7 | daily basis. Just keep adding stuff to my cart. If you want to shop there too, head on over to |
| 1:05.5 | Trueleafmarket.com. Use the discount code Food Heels 10 and you'll save $10 off your order of $50 or more. |
| 1:13.0 | All right. |
| 1:13.6 | Next up, my interview with Parker. |
| 1:15.6 | Roll it, Roxy. |
| 1:17.2 | The Food Heels podcast starts now. |
| 1:21.5 | He is one of the co-founders of the independent non-GMO seed company True Leaf Market. |
| 1:30.6 | Please welcome Parker Garlets to the show. Welcome, |
| 1:37.0 | Parker. Thank you so much. It's an honor to be with you. Yes, I'm so glad to have you today. And so I would love to learn more about True Leaf Market. So take me back. What's the founder's story? What's the |
| 1:41.9 | story behind the brand that got True Leaf Market started? Yeah, you bet. So it true leaf market is actually kind of a, |
| 1:49.7 | kind of a long series of, of startup companies that, that ended up together in a variety |
| 1:58.3 | different combinations, dating all the way back, well now dating all the way back well now all the way |
| 2:03.4 | back believe it or not to the to 1917 but and that's based on a on a company that we acquired |
| 2:11.7 | about two years ago called kiddhazawa seed company they they were founded were founded in 1917 in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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