Hi, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
I have another exciting episode for you today.
Today I was just about to spread some compost tea on my baby plants.
I've got some sunchokes here you can't see because they're still about 6 inches tall
and then I've got some peppers there.
Whenever I transplant, and actually during the season, I like to put on the compost tea
which is a really good way to enrich the fertiliser and actually the microbial growth in the soil,
because it's the microbes that help break down the nutrients in the compost to help
the plants absorb them.
We're not talking about boogie brew compost here, nothing about that today, but what we
are going to talk about is something, in my opinion, that is more important.
Many of you guys know that I make these videos on YouTube to share my passion about gardening
and to make the world a better place one person at a time.
I really want to encourage everyone out there to share your passion, whether it's gardening
or anything else.
Share your passion with others because you can't it with you.
Information is free.
I really like the Linux operating system because it is open source software and it's making
trade secrets available to everybody.
I think gardening especially should be able to get out there to more people.
Now up until this point I have been primarily making videos.
My goal is to make a video every other day, which is half of 365, which is like 170 videos
a year, which is a lot of time, effort and work it takes me to do this, but I really
know and am confident that this is actually making a difference in people's lives and
I have seen you guy's feedback and I appreciate you guys for watching and for actually starting
to garden, because that's what my channel is all about -- getting people growing food,
growing real food and getting back to the food as naturally found in nature, not out
of packages, bottles and jars.
Our system has been so screwed up.
In addition, food is literally power.
When you're controlling the food you eat and when you're independently growing your own
food, it's going to be a lot healthier for yourself, for the planet and for the world
at large.
So in the past I have encouraged you guys to make videos about your gardening experiences
to share your gardening experiences with others, but now I'm going to take it to the next step,
and I'm also going to encourage you guys to take the next step as well.
My current thinking is that I do reach a lot of people through my videos, but I don't get
a lot of one on one time with people out there in YouTube land, so I want to select a handful
of people to help me and work with me personally in my gardens.
Basically you would be like and intern, or like the apprentice, but I won't fire you
probably!
I want to work with people hand in hand and show them the tasks I'm doing and also to
get some help around my gardens.
I have two garden projects right now, one located in Las Vegas, Nevada and one located
in Sonoma County, California so if you're in either of those places and you want to
dedicate a couple of hours maybe 2 or 3 times a week to me, to learn about my plants and
to help me out with dividing sunchokes, or saving seeds, or maybe just weeding and doing
some other stuff around here I definitely could use your help.
On the same token, I want to encourage you guys, especially if you have been gardening
for a long time, to help others and to teach them the trade, just like in the old days
when they had the apprentice learning the trade.
Just by watching my videos, you guys know more about gardening than most people out
there.
There's people who know less than you and I always think that people who know more should
always teach people that know less, whatever the skill is, but I'm particularly interested
in teaching the gardening skills to everybody.
In my opinion, gardening should be taught in grade school.
Everybody in the world should be taught how to grow their own food so that they can become
independent.
We're taught all these other things, but we are not taught how to grow our own food and
become independent.
I want to encourage all you guys out there to find one or two people that you can teach,
whether it's your son, your daughter, your wife, your friend, or someone off the street
who is new into gardening, that wants to learn but don't know how.
In my opinion, gardening should not be intimidating.
It might be intimidating for the police to come knocking on your door but gardening should
not be intimidating.
The worst thing that can happen is that if you buy some seeds and plant them and that
they don't make it and if you buy them at right place, you can even get a refund on
the seeds!
So there's no cost to you and it's nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The best thing that can happen if you plant your own garden, plant your own seeds is that
you'll be feeding yourselves and your families, which is one of the most important things
you can do.
So whether you guys need to put an ad on craigslist or in your local health food store or at your
local garden centre or nursery that says 'I'm willing to help teach someone to garden',
I would encourage everyone to do that.
We need to spread this message about growing your own food, becoming your own food, becoming
independent, and rising above all the craziness happening in the world today by growing your
own food.
I teach growing organically and non-GMO.
I don't advocate using any GMO plants or seeds in your garden.
I always push for change, and I think change happens from the ground up and not from the
top down, like we've been led to believe in our society today.
So if you have any cool ideas about how to connect with others in your area and teach
them gardening, post them here because I'd love to see them, and that would help others
figure out how to help someone besides their direct family and friends with gardening as
well.
So that's pretty much my message for today, you know, I'm looking for some people from
either Sonoma County or Las Vegas so please email me through the YouTube service.
If you go to my channel page there is a little place to click send a message to me and I'll
get that.
So I hope you have enjoyed this episode.
I've got to feed my boogie brew to my little transplants and I've actually got a whole
bunch other transplants too.
So once again, I'm John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com and remember, keep on growing!