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today we are visiting true garden it's a
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vertical aeroponic food farm I was
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really excited to go here because I
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originally stumbled across true garden
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and their farm on Instagram and it's so
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cool-looking it's just a series of
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columns that are covered in different
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vegetables and fruits that are
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completely fresh and I was mostly
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interested to see what the biology of
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growing food was like because vertical
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farms grow food in a very different and
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sustainable way
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my name's Troy Albright I'm actually a
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licensed pharmacist as I've done consult
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on my patients I realize it starts with
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the food they're putting in their body
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Troy is a licensed pharmacist by trade
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he went through school in the very
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modern medical way of doing things and
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through the process of having children
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of his own with their own el misses and
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conditions and also being overweight
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himself he changed how he approached
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food and what he put in his body and it
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changed everything for him in his family
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my parents and grandparents were farmers
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in Minnesota and we had blacks well
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they're here in Arizona the soil is like
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this red clay stuff so if you don't
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amend it and really work that soil you
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don't get a lot of good quality produce
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out of it so when I saw the tower garden
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I can control the environment I control
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the water I control the nutrients I love
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this I can control every aspect of
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growing my own food so how does this
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whole process work basically the first
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step is to put whatever sees you want
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into the coconut core this grow medium
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here is coco coir it's actually a
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certified organic grow medium and it's a
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byproduct of coconut husk and you throw
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it put your seeds in there and then once
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they're 1 to 2 inches tall like this
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then we can come over here and and just
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plant these right in here they fit right
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in the in the pod you throw it in the
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pump turns on every 3 to 15 minutes to
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being on the program pumps the water and
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the nutrient solution all the way up to
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the top and then just using the long
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view of physics what goes up comes down
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right and it just rains down there's a
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shower cap rains down and hits all these
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spots
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I find interesting is that you only need
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that amount of soil like you and fishing
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just miles and miles of dirt and soil to
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grow plants right you only need that
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okay yep very from every different plant
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that you're drawing
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nope just that small mount it's actually
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not even soil it's coconut husk if we
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use soil we'd have a lot more bugs we'd
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have to use pesticides and herbicides
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and fungicides I choose not to use any
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of those here Organic is what that's
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clean
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yep just food yeah do you think that's
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really happening today well by the way
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you vegetables typically that are
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transported into your state by law even
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if they're organic are sprayed with
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pesticides so that's not ideal the
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problem is our soils are depleted there
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the FDA has lots of studies showing that
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when those leafy greens are cut and
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travel what on average 1200 to 1500
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miles to get to your plate yeah
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pesticides are there 50 percent less
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nutrients they've lost up to 50 percent
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in some cases there's hardly any
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nutritional value
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[Music]
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here look at some of this basil let's
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grab a beautiful basil point you pull
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this out look at those beautiful roots
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on there I mean look at that that's
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insane
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this is 21 days old yeah the vegetables
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that we saw at true garden were just
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growing right there
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there was no soil there was minimal
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water it was really just their roots
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hanging in these hollow tubes being
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saturated in nutrients and substances
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and growing to be the most beautiful
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vegetables if we pull one out here it's
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like a beautiful bouquet let's get one
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out of here so you can see I mean the
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Ritz and you got these beautiful rich I
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know my bouquets gonna be for my wedding
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oh my gosh it's so stop yeah isn't that
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something
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once you try a piece of that vegetables
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have a much more vibrant and bolder and
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fuller flavor then I think most of us
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have experienced feel like it tastes
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different than what I'm used like I feel
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like most romaine lettuce tastes so
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watered down right summer's over this is
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even better Peter I don't feel like I've
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ever tasted romaine that was this sweet
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it's stronger it's more unique from
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vegetable to vegetable because you're
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not getting that dirt flavor a lot of
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that comes from growing the fruit or
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vegetable in this coconut husk and
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feeding it with these nutrient
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substances without any soil it's amazing
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I don't know how I haven't eaten
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was this fresh before and I feel like
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everyone needs to like I buy expensive
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freaking spinach at the store I'm all
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organic everything I hold paycheck at
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Whole Foods it happens but it doesn't
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taste like this when they grow most
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spinach in sand so a lot of times when
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you crunch on spinach
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you got like a grainy yep that's the
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sand that they grow it in so you always
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want to rinse it well and get rid of
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that whatever the craziest things I
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tried was the stevia leaf here try just
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a piece of this okay
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just a really small amount what is that
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it's a natural plant sweetener I just
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want to eat this as like an after-dinner
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dessert and then I will never eat ice
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cream again look I mean that's so sweet
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isn't it yeah I have had the stevia
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powder but never a stevia leaf oh that
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is Stephen this is the actual stevia
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plant here Wow you gonna use it in so
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many things and it is so powerful I also
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tried a mint chocolate herb and it
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tasted just like mint chocolate so once
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we have a sprout we put it in the tower
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26 days later do you have that thing so
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this whole thing was 26 days yes nice so
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what happens is you get accelerated
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growth because the roots can get a lot
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of oxygen since there's no soil there's
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no weeds which is amazing because puling
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weeds
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is literally the worst weekend activity
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ever vertical farming it's just your
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head of lettuce or your kale or your
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spinach or your berries or your tomatoes
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no bucks no weeds what is the actual
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benefit of having a vertical farm versus
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having a normal farm that were using a
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big part of it is with the vertical farm
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we're really saving on space we can use
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ninety percent less land but we can grow
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ninety percent more food when you go
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Brook like this this is one tenth of an
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acre we can grow 10 times more food as a
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result of going vertical plus our
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resources we use 90 to 98 percent less
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water that's huge I mean what 3 percent
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of the water in the in the world is
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fresh water so it's not just a commodity
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here in the United States but all over
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the world having fresh
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so we got to really conserve our
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resources and if we don't we're setting
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ourselves up for major catastrophe how
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many people do you think you could feed
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like just out of this space out of this
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space we could easily speed gosh 100
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families on a weekly basis Wow as we all
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know our world is changing the land
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available to us is changing the quality
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soil that we have on our earth is
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changing and this may be the most
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sustainable way to feed our communities
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moving forward if someone watch this
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video and wanted to start gardening
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tomorrow or today what would be like
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your top three tips grow the things you
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love to eat keep it simple
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use clean water use good quality
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seedlings
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we've got residential models as well as
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commercial farms so the residential
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model is about five or six feet tall
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just like you are and when the two
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towers could easily feed a family of
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four depend on what you're growing
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you're gonna be exposed to less
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chemicals you'll love it you'll really
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love it I was a skeptic I absolutely
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thought the biology of this food must be
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different if we're not making it with
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soil and the same amount of water and
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the same amount of sunlight as the
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vegetables and fruits were used to but
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the matter of the fact is it's better
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it's got more nutrients more minerals
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it's more dense in the rich vitamins
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that your body needs and it's just more
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environmentally friendly you know as a
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compounding pharmacist I do consults
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then I got into this because I really
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saw not just my own kids but my own
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patients that were missed in the food
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part they were missing that nutrition
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part and as I corrected nutrition in
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them I'm like oh my this changed their
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whole life you were taught in pharmacy
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school just give a drug give a drug give
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a drug drugs are just band-aids they
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don't cure us if if you don't have good
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nutrition that foundation that we're
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building our body on isn't there and so
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that leads to all sorts of things you
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know depression leaky gut your gum
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disease people that are constantly
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having headaches and they're not growing
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properly our kids don't grow properly
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because of nutrition so starts with good
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foundation if you have a good good
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foundation with nutrition eat it what
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you
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grow or buy it locally you're gonna be
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way healthier so crazy how your diet can
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affect pretty much everything it's hard
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to put into a sentence how cool and
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interesting I thought this whole
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experience was I've always been a firm
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believer in what you put in your body
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matters and the food you put in your
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body matters and we are allowing food
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industries to spray it with pesticides
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to transport it super far change its
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enzymes and nutritional benefits so that
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when we're receiving the food it's not
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even giving us the fuel that we need to
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survive in a healthy way the body is an
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incredible piece of equipment machinery
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you put good stuff in it gets good stuff
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out you put bad stuff in in time bad
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stuff would come out but you can't
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correct it it just takes some some
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effort on our part to do what's right
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who said that Hippocrates you are what
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you eat but food be medicine what
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medicine be food he said a lot more
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eloquently but you know I firmly believe
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that true Garden was quite possibly one
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of the most beautiful things I've ever
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seen
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it was pristine it was green not fake
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green not sprayed on green it was
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beautiful
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vibrant green and the oxygen in that
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greenhouse I would like to one day live
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in a greenhouse with that pure oxygen
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I'm really grateful for the opportunity
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to learn about my health to learn about
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my food and also to share the
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information with you guys in hopes that
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it may be changes one thing you don't
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have to change everything overnight do
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one thing that will make you better
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tomorrow than you are today
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thank you guys so much for watching it
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was one of my favorite videos to make
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and share with you all if you care about
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health and wellness I want to learn more
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you should definitely watch our tutorial
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on how to make natural cleaning supplies
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because what you spray around in the air
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around you matters too