The Power of Red and Black Berries

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Deep red and purple produce like berries, can be a powerful part of our nutrition that can help protect our cells from cancer. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rL7gWY Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/44ShpPY EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3Od57LA Connect With Dr. Ross Cameron: Dr. Ross Cameron is the Research Director within the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He has published over 70 academic papers/book chapters on landscape plants and urban green spaces. He is co-author of Environmental Horticulture - The Science and Management of Green Landscapes and he wrote the health and wellbeing chapter in Science and the Garden. He is a professional horticulturist and advisor to the Royal Horticultural Society. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are like me, you get very sad when you get a fruit salad cup somewhere and it's
0:18.2	mostly the cheap fruit, like a big old cantaloupe or something like that, and then there's
0:23.3	like two little berries in there because they know you like the berries, but it's obviously
0:27.1	expensive to keep you the berries.
0:28.1	Well, you could obviously grow the berries at home and there's quite a bit of benefit
0:32.1	to eating them in all sorts of different ways.
0:34.3	So we have Dr. Ross Cameron back on the show.
0:37.3	He has published over 70 academic papers or book chapters on landscape plants and urban
0:43.1	green spaces and is the co-author of environmental horticulture, the science and management of green
0:49.1	landscapes.
0:50.1	So we've talked about a pretty wide range of topics this week, Ross, and as we get into
0:55.6	these berries, yet another curveball and I'm excited to hear what should we be knowing
1:00.5	about growing eating these things?
1:02.7	Well, this is your domain, this is food horticulture, isn't it?
1:06.8	So yeah, so the idea of food being up to the fundamental of health is probably the one
1:14.1	that most people know about.
1:15.6	So in the papers and the books we've written recently, we know that a healthy diet relates
1:21.2	to health.
1:22.7	I guess we're a bit more surprised about how different foods affect our health and obviously
1:28.6	the fresher of the food, the better.
1:30.7	So again, you're in a great climate where you will get fresh food and veg regularly.
1:35.2	That isn't the case everywhere, so a lot of stuff is frozen and packaged.
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