Top 3 Superfoods to Grow at Home
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking about some easy yet highly nutritious foods you can grow at home. If you’re a long-time follower of Epic Gardening, you’ll know I’ve been doing the Apocalypse Grow survival challenge, where I’ve lived off of my own food for a month. So growing nutrient-dense food was a MUST.
I invited Stacey Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables on the show to talk with me. I’m presenting at her Superfood Summit, where I’m doing a masterclass on microgreen growing. Feel free to check that out in the links below.
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Stacey Murphy of GrowYourOwnVegetables.org. She’s helped tens of thousands of people on 6 different continents grow vegetables and herbs.
Learn More: Kale: How to Grow Your Own Superfood
In recent years, it’s gotten a reputation as a superfood. Leaf cabbage, also called kale, is a brassica species which really packs a punch. But growing kale isn’t something a lot of people consider doing.
They should! Vitamin-packed kale (Brassica oleracea) is considered to be among the world’s healthiest foods. Rich in Vitamins A, C, and K, it’s also mineral-rich, packing a good calcium and potassium punch. For a leafy green, it’s protein-rich as well. One cup of kale will give you 2.2 grams of protein.
We’re going to go over everything you’ll ever need for growing kale, including information about the various types and a good number of planting tips. By the time we’re done, you’ll be a kale growing expert.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We are back with another |
| 0:05.5 | awesome guest today. This is a fellow San Diego, Stacy Murphy of Grow Your Own Vegetables |
| 0:11.2 | org. Great domain name right there. |
| 0:14.0 | She's helped tens of thousands of people on six different continents grow vegetables and herbs, |
| 0:18.0 | so it's no surprise that I wanted to have her on the show. |
| 0:21.0 | So today, we're going to be talking about the top three |
| 0:24.4 | super foods to grow at home and I think we hear a lot about super foods and maybe we |
| 0:30.4 | don't understand exactly why something would be called that. |
| 0:32.7 | So Stacy, first of all, thanks for coming on. |
| 0:34.8 | And I thought maybe we could start by just what exactly would you call a |
| 0:38.5 | superfood? |
| 0:39.5 | Thanks for having me here, Kevin. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, that I feel like this is a interesting question because a lot of people have heard about super foods and basically the definition that people put forth is, oh, they have tons of nutrients basically. |
| 0:54.0 | And when you think about it, and you think about your vegetable garden, |
| 0:57.0 | that pretty much describes almost everything in your vegetable and herb garden. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | So most of the things that people are growing in their garden. So yeah, so most of the things that people are growing in their gardens are |
| 1:05.4 | super foods and there are some that have even more nutrients than others. So for |
| 1:11.9 | instance, sweet potatoes kind of the mother of all super foods that |
| 1:15.8 | you can grow in your garden for a lot of reasons. It's people say that you can live on |
| 1:21.1 | it indefinitely because it's got so many nutrients available for us. |
| 1:26.6 | So that's one of those vegetables that if you were going to grow just one vegetable at home and |
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