Growing More Staple Crops

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Happy New Year’s friends! Kevin and Jacques talk about their staple crops and how they plan to expand their calorie dense foods in their 2024 gardens. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3tIrn9O Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/47sJRsK Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/41RTSyc EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3vyyL81 Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! 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, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy 2024 my friends and also to you, Shock. The New Year is here. I'm ready to
0:18.0	garden. Let's do it. Yeah, I mean how's the garden looking right now?
0:21.6	It's actually looking really good. Is it? Yeah, I mean how's it going to look right now? It's actually looking really good.
0:23.0	Is it?
0:23.3	Yeah, I got the Nebraska corner everywhere.
0:26.3	Yeah, it's all baskets right now.
0:28.3	It's pretty much piles of broccoli and cauliflower for dinner every night.
0:31.6	Yeah.
0:32.2	Yeah, I've got, and I have them in every different stage, I have them like coming up, I have them over
0:36.9	with the yellow flowers coming out and I have like nice broccoli heads.
0:39.8	Actually, yeah, I have a couple of those.
0:41.2	I'll leave it for the bees.
0:42.2	We leave it for the bees, We leave it for the bees.
0:43.5	It's for the volunteers, you know?
0:45.2	So what I've been doing is there's this restaurant up north in San Diego.
0:49.4	We really like called Campfire and they do a charred broccoli.
0:52.9	Oh, and so what we've been doing is just doing that.
0:55.7	In the air friar you just take,
0:57.4	but you got to take the florets off really close.
1:00.7	You don't want too much stock in this particular case, you want them all even and you just do like a little aioli sort of mustardy type thing and you know a little dipper.
1:08.0	I haven't tried dipping my broccoli yet. Maybe that's going to change the game a little bit. Oh, it's nice. You should try it. So today we're talking about the staple crops that you've been getting into.
1:18.0	So following in some footsteps.
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