Best Crops For Calories

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do you know what crops you should grow if it REALLY came down to growing for survival? Roxanne and Kevin riff on their favorite calorie crops. Connect With Roxanne Ahern: Roxanne Ahern studied at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Roxanne is now a mother of five on a working homestead that includes sheep, goats, chickens, guinea hens, ducks, sometimes cows, rabbits, and pigs, and of course, dogs and cats. She also grows a large garden. Order Roxanne’s book, Holistic Homesteading Happy Holistic Homesteading blog Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you are a grower and you're trying to grow a significant amount of food, you can think
0:18.1	about it from nutrition and nutrient density, I suppose, or you can think about it from calories,
0:22.6	of course, a blended approach, probably best.
0:25.0	This is something I ran into about three years ago when I tried to live off of my small
0:29.5	front yard garden for a month, and I can get into the rules, but it was called the
0:32.5	Apocalypse Grow Challenge.
0:33.7	We have Roxanne Ahernd back on the show of Happy Holistic Homesteading.
0:37.9	That's her blog.
0:38.9	I encourage you guys to check it out.
0:39.9	Her book Holistic Homesteading coming up pretty soon here.
0:44.0	Roxanne, how do you think about this for your homestead?
0:48.4	Are you focused on cows from the garden or nutrition mostly?
0:54.1	Well, I mean, there's definitely both, but we do want to get a lot of our calories from
1:01.3	the garden, like the bulk of it.
1:02.9	I mean, we're definitely not 100% off the grid, self-sufficient.
1:08.2	Like, we're not that kind of homesteader.
1:10.5	I get it as your standard delivery order every month, you know, we still have to go to
1:17.1	the stores sometimes, but we do grow a big portion of our food and my favorite crops
1:22.5	to grow on our farm in the southeast in 6B is Sweet Potatoes is a really big one for
1:29.7	us because they are super low maintenance and we start sprouting them in the winter inside
1:36.2	when I'm really, I want to be in the garden instead of just kind of getting my little
1:41.4	gardening fix.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.