How To Start Your Own Small Farm Anywhere In The World & Grow Your Own Herbs, Plant Medicines, Oils, Tinctures, Teas & More With Brad Krass & Doug Wolkon.

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Imagine the lush landscape of Hawaii — the brilliant green foliage, the vibrant flowers, the fragrant herbs and plants — being transferred into your backyard or the parcel of land you've purchased.

In today's episode, I welcome Brad Krass and Doug Wolkon (a repeat guest on the show) who are experts in creating thriving, bountiful farms using only two or three acres of land.

If you aren't familiar with my previous podcasts featuring Doug Wolkon of Kauai Farmacy (use code GREENFIELD15 to save 15%), I first discovered him through my friend Laird Hamilton when he brought me to Doug's fabulous farm in Kauai. He was growing a vast array of superfoods and extracting and making tinctures, oils, powders, and all sorts of different compounds from his small farm, using fascinating tactics. Since then, I've been a huge fan of Kauai Farmacy. I use their teas, salves, lotions, dried cacao beans, and all sorts of crazy superfoods that show up at my house from the islands every few months or so from Doug.

Doug ended up training Brad (also featured in today's show) who lives very close to me. Brad took all of Doug's concepts and did the same thing in Sandpoint, Idaho, about an hour from my house. Brad's farm, New Flower (use code BEN to save 10%), is a permaculture-based herb farm that promotes a wellness lifestyle culture through natural farming practices and a nourishing herbal apothecary with high-quality herbal products.

Learning how to farm in Hawaii and then reapplying it to a different area of the world is such an interesting concept that I knew I had to get this duo on the show together. By the end of today's episode, you'll walk away knowing more about all things farming, gardening, permaculture, and how to grow food anywhere using the cool concepts that Doug and Brad have implemented.

For more information on plant medicine and farming, check out my other two interviews with Doug:

For the full show notes, visit: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/newflower

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.
0:04.1	When you're gardening in permaculture, what we're doing is we're mimicking nature. So if you were to walk through a forest,
0:11.8	you would see plants that are really low on the ground.
0:15.0	Underneath that, there's even roots, and then there's small plants is going to be your next layer up,
0:22.0	and it's going to grow into larger bushes, small trees, tall trees.
0:28.0	And we're looking at all these layers because this is how nature gardens and we're deciding well what are the
0:35.6	plants that are going to be beneficial for us in our gardens that will occupy all of these layers so we can achieve the most photosynthesis all at the same time in the garden.
0:47.5	Fitness, nutrition, biohacking, longevity, life optimization, spirituality, and a whole lot more.
0:56.5	Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Life Show.
0:59.3	Are you ready to hack your life?
1:01.1	Let's do this. I know that it's invisible. I know it's spooky I know it's weird but quantum energy is a thing
1:16.9	every unit of matter has quantum energy every living being constantly interacts with
1:21.5	other quantum energy fields and these energy
1:24.0	fields can get depleted by toxins and EMFs and just general life stress.
1:28.7	There is a way to actually upregulate yourself from a quantum standpoint though.
1:34.0	There's a company called L-E-E-L-A-Q.
1:38.0	When you see me wearing that weird necklace I'm often wearing on Instagram and pictures and videos,
1:42.0	that's a L-A-Q necklace. I That's a Lila Q necklace.
1:43.7	I've got a Lila Q charger for like charging food and jewelry
1:47.2	up in my kitchen.
1:48.0	I've got one out in my garage that I used to charge up drinks
1:51.3	and things that I take out of the mini fridge in the garage.
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