what's up guys so today we're gonna talk about the most nutritious terrestrial
plant in the world hold tight
alright guys so welcome to my health food store this tree sitting here behind
me was literally the catalyst that got me excited about edible landscaping back
in 2010-2011 when I was a standard landscaper and I found out about this
tree which is Moringa I kind of I started going nuts I started going to
local meetings I learned about the tree. Before you know it I was selling these
trees on Craigslist selling these trees to local people in the paper. I
probably sold about 2,000 of these trees before I did anything else in the edible
industry. Let's check this thing out! So behind us is Moringa oleifera. This tree
is native to India and grows like a weed here in Florida this tree took 26
degrees or 24 degrees for six hours two years ago it came back from the roots it
thrives in our crappy sandy soils. They kind of thrive on neglect so typically
speaking I just when we cut back our entire Market Garden when we did our
chop and drop here a couple of weeks ago this got completely whacked down to a
couple of feet commercially they grow these trees you know a foot or two apart
and just let them get a couple of feet tall and they're constantly harvesting
this new growth and you could see here this is where I cut the tree back this
is all that new fresh growth and I prefer that the leaves actually dried
and powdered I like it really as a supplement but this can be eaten fresh
and this trees also been called the horseradish tree has a little bit of a
spice to it so you can eat the fresh leaves like this you can eat the dried
leaves you can cook and eat the pods you can eat the flowers you can use the
of my favorite places here in Florida is ECHO. And ECHO is doing a lot of work with
this tree they're bringing this into third world countries. They're
literally fixing malnutrition so I look at this as having
like a health food store my back yard this tree has
25 times more iron than spinach. 10 times more vitamin A than carrots.
7 times more vitamin C than oranges 2 times more protein and yogurt. 4
times more fiber than oats. 17 times more calcium than milk. 15 times
more potassium than bananas.Talk about a superfood here and
shout out to my buddy Kendrick with Numa Nursery he's in the
St. Pete area he actually gave me the nutritional sheet for this one because
if you searched Moringa you're gonna get like 10 - 20 different sheets. That one
definitely seems to be the most accurate he actually sells oil from the seeds
powdered leaves teas all kinds of cool stuff he has a Moringa tree growers
co-op throughout the Tampa Bay area where he'll grow these trees in your
yard you prune them he'll harvest the leaves I think you even get a portion of
it so it's like a win-win checkout Kendrick I'll put a link in the
description down below but like I just started mentioning, this
tree is a superfood it grows like a weed you can't kill it. Like I
said I'll cut this back. This is also biomass so in an
agroforestry system if you can't get to harvesting and drying the leaves you can
just chop and drop this I mean all this nutrition in these leaves is just going
to go back to the plants in the soil. Talk about an easy tree to grow
I can easily just cut back this whole head here it's also a very soft
wood so it snaps I would say when the tree gets a little bit on the bigger
side it actually tends to get a little bit ratty looking so keeping the trees
pruned and smaller there's definitely the better way to have a more ornamental
tree especially if are going to be planting this thing out in the front
yard but I look at this as kind of like the new superfood. you guys
probably heard of acai. Moringa is kind of the hot one today the powder for this
from this tree when this first started becoming popular was like 40 to
60 bucks a pound. I don't even know where it's at today but we're talking about
an expensive superfood too so not only is this nutrient-dense I mean
you know this is gonna heal our bodies this is an amazing. Typically I like to
grow this from seed. You can grow through some cuttings I noticed you don't get as
strong as a tree long-term it seems like the trees grown from cuttings tend to
blow over a little bit more. ECHO even has their own variety called the PK1
One that they've named and selected on their own. so Moringa absolutely
amazing I highly suggest if you're in an area even where you can't grow this maybe
growing this is an annual because it grows so quick like I said this is just
a couple of weeks of growth so you know potentially if you're in a more Northern
climate, getting this started in the greenhouse you know towards the end
of your winter getting it out you could harvest off of it a couple of times
just in that summer if it dies back it dies back no big deal right so
Moringa oleifera literally having a health food store in your backyard
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