I'm a little late, but maybe it counts for the next challenge. I started growing food this winter, and in this year's summer I'll be growing a lot in my mom's garden. I'm also studying Sustainable Energy Technology. I like to keep the heater off when I'm home alone, and instead wear a double layer of clothes when it's cold.. Oh yeah, I also own a little 22 year old Suzuki Swift that has a great mpg-age. That's enough? Great vids Jon!
Cow crap makes great fertilizer. Bull crap however, well, it comes from DC and their propagandist.
When I was in high school, they told us we were headed for another Ice Age. Now, they tell us we're going to burn up. Cyclical is what most scientist agree on.
It is always a pleasure to listen to your passion. I want to put in a hydroponics garden into my basement. last year was not a good year for gardening here on Mount Uniacke. I sprout and now I am going to grow leafy greens indoors ...I hope....lol...thanks john for amazing info and keeping us entertained at the same time.
i now grow 60 + containers organiclly. i work in a resturant that is wastefull so i grab the compostable waste and rib bones (for home made bone meal)
Thank you so much for your hard work and all your infos John! I love you! On my side I sprout about half of my veggies, I grow about 5-10 non edible apartment plants, I don't need animal products to be very active and healthy, I help at least 2 people to improve their diet and one of them does not need animal products either. I'm studying to make an aquaponic system!
Thanks for what you do. That weekend I setup seed and salad trays, watered from my rain barrel, and I work out of a home office so I don't have a commute during the week. Every bit helps.
John thanks for all your hard work and information.
I just finished a large veggie garden with drip system.
Upgraded to an energy saving front load washer and all appliances are energy star.
Starting recycling at home and at work. I work at a computer shop and have put in recycle bins for ink cartridges, batteries, and cell phones at the store.
John thanks for all your hard work and information.
I just finished a large veggie garden with drip system.
Upgraded to an energy saving front load washer and all appliances are energy star.
Starting recycling at home and at work. I work at a computer shop and have put in recycle bins for ink cartridges, batteries, and cell phones at the store.
Wandering who are these six people who clicked dislike button on this video. They must be scared, lost, unhappy people, eating lots of junk food, drinking lots of pop & pizza while watching lots of TV. Working either for gas corporations or pharmaceutical industry. They afraid of public transportation, bicycles, they don't have time to recycle, compost, read a book or cut a green salad. Who are these people?
Hi John, big fans out here in good ole Pennsylvania. My wife and I have started our first garden with a 4x10 raised bed. Started seeds inside but learned the hard way about the process of harding slowly as we killed most all our little plants... No worries.... We just had to start over and try again...we sowed many seeds direct which seemed to work better...harvesting our first lettuce and hopefully soon some heirloom spinach.... With food prices increasing as fast as they are, people like you
I made a compost tea brewer out of a 45 gallon Kalamata olive barrel. My husband put a spigot at the bottom, it's on the edge of a terrace, and I use a 5 gallon bucket to get it to the veggies. I know, there's the whole aerobic/anaerobic controversy- mine does not have aeration only because it seems like more time and expense than I want to deal with. So far my plants love it. And I make my own compost from kitchen scraps, weeds, etc and chicken manure. My tomatoes are 3 feet tall!
I have my garden, and have gardened for a couple of years now. I have learned of many of veggies from your channel, and grow them.
I got my neighbor into gardening last year and finally got the old man across the street back into it. He got his neighbor back into it as well! Since my back yard garden is seen from the street out in the front, I may be responsible for two or three other gardens on the block! It's a revolution I tell you!
Now send me some zone 5 tolerant tree collards! Lolz!
The reason to eat a plant based diet (vegan) is not to save the planet. The reason is for our health and I don't recommend even 10% meat - I'd recommend 0%. Eating a meat based diet indeed takes a lot of resources and is contributing to the high prices for all foods and gas. The price we pay for eating meat is both health and financial - its not worth it. We exhale CO2 and plants exhale oxygen. CO2 is no more a pollutant than oxygen is.
You can tell this is absolutely heartfelt. Dont worry my friend your positive impact upon this planet is exponential, this weekend i will be planting 100 goji berry seeds. Im not in a position to buy from you at this time but i now you believe in your products and i would definitely purchase through you when i produce more of my own fruit
John, I've been inspired by you with growing food for a year now. I compost and have a worm farm, recycle, conserve water. I have a door that needs weather stripping and will look into the evolve shower sensor. Thanks again for all you do!
Well, it's a little late, but I close on my house on the 27th and am moving south where I'm starting a solar powered greenhouse & extensive outdoor garden. Inside the greenhouse I'm going to implement aquaponics. No more grocery store. Ever. That ought to count for a couple of your 350!
At the 32:44 marker in this vid, you mention that your Evolve showerhead has a 1.5gpm flow. I went straight to the Evolve site after watching this video. I do see the cool Lady Bug adapter with the pull-string, as you have, for saving hot water, but I do not see the particular showerhead that you show in your video except in the 2.5gpm choices. The 1.5gpm offered on their site looks much smaller. Would you mind sharing with us the exact name of the particular one you have? Thanks, John!
The one I purchased was about a year or two ago, at costco. I believe it was a special unit made for costco by evolve. Maybe it has since been discontinued? Im not sure. I dont have a specific 'model' name. The specs look very similiar to the roadrunner design they currently offer.
@growingyourgreens - Thanks so much for the quick response, John! That's very helpful. I'll mention this info to the Evolve people and see if they can help me track down that particular showerhead, or the one closest to it. ~K :)
@growingyourgreens Thanks so much for the quick response, John - that's very helpful. The particular Roadrunner model currently on the Evolve site doesn't look like yours, but interestingly, when I Googled "evolve roadrunner," it brought up a bunch of sites selling a model that looks just like yours, and they all have rave reviews, which is great. Thanks again! ~Karen
Working on SIPS (sub irrigated planters) to reduce water footprint for my vegetable garden. Currently using two designs using cloth wicks and one that is based on Wicking Worm boxes. The wick designs are either 5 gallon buckets or 30 gallon Sterilite totes with separate reservoir drilled for fill tube, aeration, and wicks. The Wicking worm boxes will be based on a permi design from Australia with intent to reduce water use.
My fiancee and I are going to hand wash our laundry this weekend. Lots of work but we do it as often as we can. Wash board and a little elbow grease!
Since in a 3ft snowstorm we tend to visit our outdoor compost bin less often. I'm setting up worm bin to make faster compost year round in doors. But I had already planned to do that as well as plant more seeds this week. So I'll do a little extra for this. Since you were so persuasive and motivating! :)
For starters I will plant at least one more plant in every window. I'm sure I will think of more as the week progresses. I will share this video with all of my friends and family
Hey John, great job on all of your videos, didn't hear about your challenge until Sunday but I was planting anyway, planted a bunch of lettuce and herbs and a perennial vine, Passion Flower. By the Way, have you ever grown passion flower? The one that I bought actually makes an edible fruit after the flower similar to passion fruit so I thought you might be interested.
Yes, I have grown passionflower for the fruit. It grew about 2 years before it didnt make the frost in the winter. I loved it. It was planted where my grape vines are currently planted. I would like to find a variety that is frost toleraant (of my climate) without protection in the winter AND has a bountiful and delicious harvest. I think I may have a passion flower vine growing in the greenhouse now. Another variety I will grow in the greenhouse soon(?) is Jamacian Orange. Very Sweet :)
Started a new section of raised beds in the backyard this weekend, will have made 50% utilization of that area with raised beds. This will make it the 5th raised bed to date, also purchased two solar panel kits from Harbor Freight, they are on sale in my area and with the additional discount coupons on the internet i only paid 129.00 each for the 45 watt system. They aren't bad, will loose 10% effency the first year but will stableize, using 2 deep cell batteries and 1500 watt pure sein inverter
I am not sure or not you will read this. This weekend, I put a raised bed and showed him how to plant the starts. Hope he will be successful. I have him started organic
I've cleaned out the greenhouse and have tomatoes and peppers growing in their. I'm also growing rhubarb, strawberries, dwarf beans, mint, basil, carrots, beet-root, onions, scallions, radish, lettuce and potatoes and largely I've been inspired by you John. I've recently fitted a 210 litre water butt to the shed too and have two smaller ones (about 100l each) to fit to either side of the greenhouse. Love your channel mate. I might make a video to show you what I'm doing.
My home came with a pre-installed irrigation system which uses "reclaimed water" (not potable). It's a great savings since water is so expensive in Fllorida, but has made growing my greens challenging. I now have a small area that has been retrofitted with drip irrigation so that berries and veggies that will be eaten raw can be grown there. Also planted 2 fruit trees this weekend - a lychee and a strawberry guava.
I am planting nitrogen fixers so I don't have to buy fertalizer. I'm starting seeds at home instead of buying starts. I grey water my shower. I catch rain water, I am planting more fruit trees. I'm farming an acre with 6 people to feed 2 families with Hugelkultur beds so we can grow large crops like melons and squash and corn leaving my house area for small crops.
Count me in ! I just added corn, herbs, and wax beans to my front yard garden, also mulched deeply to conserve water this summer in our intense central valleyCA heat,
and shredded paper for my compost bin. Later today will build a couple of bamboo trellis and start running drip irrigation to my new (old) redwood growing boxes made from very old (sixty yr old) apricot drying trays. Picked up the drying trays very cheaply, and feel good that those redwood trees will get repurposed.
i've started my compost pile with my new/free recycled compost bin. i planted 12 tomato plants and a whole bunch of other veggies in an existing bed and a bed i made of recycled materials and in recycled containers.
I'll go buy the energy conserving power strip you showed (very cool), and also the toilet water conservation kits. Just finished planting a close to 200 plants, trees in my vegetable / fruit / flower garden. Also look for others... Great video by the way.
What I am doing this weekend,I got a bunch of plastic easter buckets that the church across the street were throwing away.I drilled holes in the bottom put compost in them and a mix of lettuce,herbs and edible flowers.My kids are giving them to the teachers at there school.The teachers buy salads almost every day in plastic containers.So we are hoping to show them a better way to eat well..The total cost to me a little time and some seeds.The buckets were free,and the compost was free.=30 salads
If you live where you can not change the toilet add a 1-2 liter bottle of water to the water tank on the back of the toilet and that will reduce the amount of water it uses to flush :)
I just moved my hydroponic jalapenos plants outside into the garden (hope they take in soil, they are loaded with peppers already), added drip irrigation for my 4x8 sqft bed and a mister for my hanging black eyed susan this weekend!
I've learned so much from your channel. TY! My family of four lives in 850sq ft, we gave up pork and red meat last Oct, all of lights in our house are CFL, all of our electric devices our pluged into powerstrips and are off most of the time, both the bathroom and kitchen have low flow water attachments, our family has gone down to one veh recently, we recycle, and the seedlings I started are ready so I am making some earth boxes for our 6x6 patio this weekend. Small steps=BIG difference:)
My wife and I built a raised bed and planted vegetables this weekend. We also stopped eating meat a year ago. We compost. I have been riding my bike to work for the last 2 week(19 miles). We have low flowing shower nozzle. We don't do this because of global warming theories though.
Christine from Canada here. Love your "spunk " and energized personality. I did set up my rain barrels this weekend and planted 50 strawberry plants. I have set up two buckets at work ( work in a kitchen in our hospital here), everyone now puts food waste in these buckets and we all take turns taking home this waste for our compost piles. Next five year phase entails, adding fruit trees and bushes, aquaphonics system, greenhouse, fresh eggs, and meat. Thanks for your inspiration John.
This week I have bought a hybrid car (Toyota Auris) and this coming week I am recycling a palette that my daughter's fish tank was delivered on, by turning it into a compost bin.
I am loving the car - it is so relaxing to drive because it is so quiet. I can get over 80 miles to the gallon if I drive economically (and at least 70 if I'm not even trying).
I will be working in my garden all weekend . I am going to grow more greens. I need help on what's the best to grow, to convince family members to eat healthy.I will also work on rain water collection .
I mulched my garden, have a rainwater catchment barrel, two compost piles and grow some lettuce, broccoli, cauli flower, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, corn and sellery!
Best stuff in my garden are the berries. Currants need near to no maintance at all! :)
You need to watch the movie" HOME"its here on youtube,biofuelsarenot all good! they are actually not even close to good ! check it out, they are using up our food when we are destined for a food crisis !
This is the second year I've done the 350 garden challenge. Last year I planted the start of a food forest. This year I'm preserving strawberry jam and starting a garden at my office at the edge of the parking lot.
Also this weekend OSH has no sales tax so we went and got our gardening supplies, liquid kelp, chickie doo doo fertilizer and a new valve for the toliet...:)
Finished up my new upgraded garden bed this weekend. Built the same way John builds his with PVC installed to run irrigation. I am going to use a mix of emitters and T-Tape. My garden is a 12' x 12' square with a 2' wide "hallway" in the middle of one side that leads to an open 4' x 4' area in the center of the garden. The garden is 16" deep on one side and 22" on the other side (my yard is sloped). I left the outer posts taller to attach fencing to keep animals out. I have 120 square foot of g
added a 4 x 10 raised bed today! thanks john! need to fill it with dirt and compost, but the frame is all in. Check it out here... changinggreen.blogspot.com Thanks John for all the awesome videos! Saving to buy my Vitamix from you!
1. shower= i have a 5 gallon bucket which i use to capture water while waiting for the hot water to kick in. i use the water to pour into the back of the toilet tank or in the kitchen, when its time to use the garbage disposal.
2. toilet=flush solids only.
3. kitchen=i started a worm bin recently.
finally, to all the uneducated knuckle draggers out there, glen beck, rush limbaugh, and sean hannity are not scientists. you are exposing your ignorance to the world. lets not politicize johns vid
thanks for the update....planting tomatoes and peppers in 5 gallon pots for my son's patio...also herbs. also loaded up my composter with new stuff...it's cooking happily. picked the first pea pod of spring. potato is growing happily in my trash bin. won't be driving tomorrow either.
@9tonyupholster23 I've just been reading about them and it turns out that they aren't as effective as HID lamps although they do consume a fraction of the electricity. They apparently need supplementation with some other form of lighting for optimal growth.
Next weekend I will plant two new raised beds, have planted a cherry tree, and will plant fast-growing vines to keep my deck cooler in the summer. Also re-routing the drainpipe to accommodate a rain barrel which will be delivered in two weeks!
Let's get back to the earth, and be as effective as we can!
1. shower= i have a 5 gallon bucket which i use to capture water while waiting for the hot water to kick in. i use the water to pour into the back of the toilet tank or in the kitchen, when its time to use the garbage disposal.
2. toilet=flush solids only.
3. kitchen=i started a worm bin recently.
finally, to all the uneducated knuckle draggers out there, glen beck, rush limbaugh, and sean hannity are not scientists. you are exposing your ignorance to the world.
Started a garden on my second-story balcony today! I am using two hanging planters that are meant for plants to be grown upside down. Here's what I've got planted in them: #1 Cherry Tomatoes Oregano Peppermint Cilantro Sweet Basil #2 Jalepeño Peppers (Mild Variety) Jalepeño Peppers (Hot Variety) Sorano Peppers Yellow Banana Peppers Grown in Foxfarm Ocean Forest Natural/Organic potting soil (great stuff) Love your videos John, Keep up the great work!
Sunday's dinner will be lentils and cabbage. I already catch the water from hand dishwashing, etc for flushing my old 50s toilet using only 2.5 gallons to flush. Been using CFL's for 12 years. Wed I put in a small herb garden. Still have a few plants to put in but the soil is too wet, Hopefully I can finish Mon. Today (Sat), I shopped at my local farmer's market getting fruit and veggies that are in season for freezing instead of buying prepackaged frozen fruit for smoothies.
In addition to adding onto my own garden this year, over the weekend I have welcomed some friends who live in a small apartment to use a part of my yard to build their own raised bed and start a veggie garden. :)
John 90% of the bio-diesel fuel in us is from algae. The biggest investor and maker of these algae based bio D is Hal Wriggley the inventor of robo-grip pliers.
Personally, I like most of your videos, your philosophy on growing one's own food, but this man-made climate change propaganda has been debunked numerous times. Besides, with all the air travel you do, don't you and Al Gore think you're more than a little hypocritical? Mankind has plenty of serious environmental problems that need to be addressed. The CO2 global warming hoax focuses attention on false goals.
Started a garden this year in totes \0/ you and another got me enthused! Hardly have to water we have been getting so much rain hahaha. Yes and we catch rain water also.
Inspired by post... finally added a 125 strip of radish, some beautiful Rainbow Kale (inspired by one of your video's), and a zillion saved sprouted Organic Garlic Cloves to garden.
Hi John. Planting plans on hold here in the Midwest, rain, rain again, and drenched swimming plants in planters, and seedling flats. Bok Choi seeds up and racing toward the sun behind the clouds. Peas, carrots, beats, swiss chard planted earlier last week. Raspberry starts transplated, too. Watching computer moniter with new high power LED light which is equivalent to a 100 w incandescent bulb, and uses 13 watts.
This weekend I'm working in the garden planting cuttings I obtained from the local Asian market....I'm really into trying to 'root' things. I have some malabar spinach that I have grown from seed, but will fill out the bed with cuttings. There's also some mints and orach and amaranth too, so I'm trying it. Also going to plant some Jerusalem artichokes. Need to turn my compost pile (way overdue). Really interested in the tree collards. All my soil is hand worked, no pesticides. Cheers!
Very nice video and video series. I am so happy to see someone showing people how to grow their own food, and conserve natural resources. Kudos to you and keep up the good work, the planet appreciates you!!
I'm growing my own food, reduce garbage (big time) and recycle the little garbage I do buy, I capture showerwater to water my plants by putting a wateringcan in the shower next to me to fill up while I shower, I don't even have a driverslicence to begin with=> so no car for me, bus, train, tram, subway and bike only(I live in holland where this is pretty common) I lways unplug my chargers! They use energy when not charging plus they make allot of noise that we can't hear, but our poor pets can!
Hey John, the organic capacity of the soil is measured in carbon! I want to have a higher organic capacity in my soil, so I can grow more food! With so much carbon in the atmosphere, we have a great opportunity to increase the productivity of our soil, naturally, by getting plants to pull it into the ground, where it will make more plants! All life is carbon based, carbon is life!
i salvaged 15 tree containers that a local landscaping company had thrown into a jobsite dumpster at a construction site i was working on Friday. they are huge 47 gallons! I hate to think how many had been hauled away to the landfill already, but at least i saved a few. Great vid john, keep up the great work!
Hi John, wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your channel. I have learned a great deal. This weekend i'm ordering my seeds and buying some containers to start my garden. Thank you again.
I am a very conservative person already. I'm waiting for those led lights to come down I have one in my kitchen. Rest of the house has CFL's even though my goal is to eliminate all of them this year. They give me a headache when I have all the lights on. My car project is a 300 TD Mercedes bought it just to use a bio diesel. Also have a 240D Mercedes.
awesome idea John. I expanded my garden this year. Place a 5 gallon bucket in your shower to collect water before its warm. I use the water in my garden. My water bill dropped last year.
Another interesting idea some people can try for their garden is using a product called CalCarb by Xtreme-Gardening. It's supposed to help the plants suck up more co2 from the air around them, which will make the plants grow BIGGER, reduce co2, and generate more oxygen.
@ASFx2600 Instead of CFLs which are more hype than functional (I have regular bulbs routinely outlast my CFLs, sadly I bought into their hype before learning about them), look into LED based bulbs which in theory last about 5x longer than CFL and consume about 1/5th of the electricity.
@therawlifefamily I replaced all the bulbs in my whole house with cheap CFLs from Sams club several years ago, and none have burned out yet. I think they have definitely already paid for themselves. I'm sure it depends on the brand too. LEDs are definitely more efficient, but they are also extremely expensive. I'm not ready to do that yet until they get much cheaper.
Well not just this weekend but an ongoing project that my city is working on and I am involved with is a community garden that we are almost completed with, we are a "cool city" meaning that we are concerned with air, water and earth. It's a program setup through Sierra club. This is one of the reasons I found you I needed help and ideas about gardening and came across your vids! Great job John.... we are concerned with sustainable energy there are a lot of vids on solar energy.
Drinking bottled water is terrible for the environment! it produces a huge amount of waste. The water bottle companies often steal water rights from local communities. And the water quality they must follow is not as stricked as city water quality regulations. Get a water filter and if you are worried about chlorine, just let your glass or pitcher of water sit for about 15 min, The chlorine will evaporate very quickly, once it smells chlorine free you can add ice, or refrigerate it.
I love all your videos and am such a huge groupie! I hang clothes to dry, catch shower water in bucket to flush toilet, hand wash my dishes, have a worm compost bin, grow my food in self-watering container. Still looking for ways to do more.... Great job John!
Well I just planted my Litchi tomatos in my front yard cedar fence garden box, planted some scarlet runner beans and nasturtiums to climb up the trellis behind it. Then I planted lettuce, parisienne, and turnips along the front of the trellis to take up the extra nitrogen from the beans. Finally I spread native mint, basalm, and native plant and grass seeds around the perimeters of the litchi tomatoes. One sunchoke in a corner. A lot of which was inspired by John, thanks bro.
love your vids buddy i have started a pretty large garden this year and have also finally motivated 2 of my buddys to start groing food this year one of which lives in an apartment keep up the good work
Co2 is not a pollutant! It's just another way for our govt' to tax us and exert control over free people. I grow food, recycle and conserve resources because it is the right way to live but I won't be coerced into using rhetoric designed to force control over me and my freedoms. It's a LIE.
@eddie198 Oh I convinced now!? Thank you so much!? Please refrain from ad hominem attacks and tell me why you think I'm an idiot. There is no evidence to support you view of carbon being a pollutant. Just because people say it, it does not make it true.
@PilgrimLad Who said it's a pollutant? The gov't is not taxing carbon you imbecile! I disagree with a cap and trade and a carbon tax. CO2 may not be a pollutant like CFC's or aerosols, but the abundant use of fossil fuels is having an effect on our climate. It's one thing to disagree with the philosophy of how to go about mitigating/adapting to climate change, but to claim that the science is a farce is ignorant. 95% of scientists agree that global climate change is the result of humans.
@PilgrimLad I would also like to point out that 95% of scientists agree smoking increases your risk of cancer, 5% disagree. Yet when 95% of scientists say humans are causing climate change, there is a huge controversy. I don't want to make assumptions about you, but I would strongly suggest that you look at both sides on this debate. It's one thing to believe science you read out of journals it's another to believe what Glenn Beck tells you. Do yourself and America a service, open a book.
@eddie198 Okay according to you I'm an idiot and an imbecile. But so far your appeal to authority has been deductively fallacious. I would also like to point out that 86.35% of statistics are made up and stick to your instinct and don't make assumptions because you are wrong.
Well said. If carbon is soooo bad, then why is the only solution to TAX it? Carbon tax is ridiculous. The people in control of what makes the most pollution and sell you the shit that pollutes...wants to tax you on your way of life because you are bad.
Biodiesel isn't biofuel, they are two different things. Biodiesel is quite wasteful and is like 80% petroleum fuel, biofuel is waste oil, like veggie oil...but not all cars can run on it, and it destroys engines over time. Just plain DIESEL is the best. We can make diesel engines that can get 80-100mpg, but they aren't being made for some reason... PS-biofuel can be ingested (wouldn't do it...but it's not toxic) biodiesel will kill you.
I do agree, as the plants themselves breath CO2 and release O2 otherwise known as breathable air. Doing the right thing with no excuses for no reason other than it is the right thing to do, right on brother.
@PilgrimLad I agree completely. That being said, recently I saw something stating that a 6C increase in average global temperature would essentially kill all life, and I thought to myself, hmm, I know that the jurassic, etc were much warmer than now (no ice caps, etc), but by how much warmer was it? Turns out that the dinosaurs lived on earth when it was 7C (15F) warmer than it is now. Talk about a scam!
Buy local. Water my container and raised bed garden with captured rain water. Install Solatubes. Flipping switches off. Air dry dishes. Hang out clothes to dry. Open windows. Buy cloth diapers!
Hey John great video. I am going to give out more veggies to my neighbours. I am also going to plan out another redwood box for my garden to grow more veggies. I am also going to start a garden club in Las Vegas. I plan to upload more videos to show people you can grow veggies in Las Vegas all year long..
Love your videos John. Each year, I try to do a little more to help save the earth and grow better veggies...installed a raised bed, wine barrel planters, composting system, worm composting system. This weekend I will make a point to finish installing my drip irrigation system. It killed my hands, but I'll complete my project for th planet. Keep on growin'!
I definitely got my compost started this weekend. used some fencing scraps i had around the house for the container. cleaned up all the leaf piles around the house.
Great video, John. I'm planting my first veggie garden. I've also converted several light fixtures to CFL and/or LED bulbs. I bought a low-flow showerhead, but I like your setup better (love that on/off switch!) than what I have, so I'm going to return mine and switch to a setup like yours!
We just converted a small deep freezer to a refrigerator. It is using 1/6 the energy of our old refrigerator. Plus we are converting our garden to an edible landscape. Shari
I'm a little late, but maybe it counts for the next challenge. I started growing food this winter, and in this year's summer I'll be growing a lot in my mom's garden. I'm also studying Sustainable Energy Technology. I like to keep the heater off when I'm home alone, and instead wear a double layer of clothes when it's cold.. Oh yeah, I also own a little 22 year old Suzuki Swift that has a great mpg-age. That's enough? Great vids Jon!
GreenLoveBreda 1 month ago
its 391.80 ppm now
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Cow crap makes great fertilizer. Bull crap however, well, it comes from DC and their propagandist.
When I was in high school, they told us we were headed for another Ice Age. Now, they tell us we're going to burn up. Cyclical is what most scientist agree on.
4micaman 9 months ago
i love watching you vid. i have rasied bed garden in
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YU24924 9 months ago
It is always a pleasure to listen to your passion. I want to put in a hydroponics garden into my basement. last year was not a good year for gardening here on Mount Uniacke. I sprout and now I am going to grow leafy greens indoors ...I hope....lol...thanks john for amazing info and keeping us entertained at the same time.
ramonalisa 9 months ago
i now grow 60 + containers organiclly. i work in a resturant that is wastefull so i grab the compostable waste and rib bones (for home made bone meal)
gabriellegion1 9 months ago
Thank you so much for your hard work and all your infos John! I love you! On my side I sprout about half of my veggies, I grow about 5-10 non edible apartment plants, I don't need animal products to be very active and healthy, I help at least 2 people to improve their diet and one of them does not need animal products either. I'm studying to make an aquaponic system!
Helenelalala 9 months ago
Thanks for what you do. That weekend I setup seed and salad trays, watered from my rain barrel, and I work out of a home office so I don't have a commute during the week. Every bit helps.
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John thanks for all your hard work and information.
I just finished a large veggie garden with drip system.
Upgraded to an energy saving front load washer and all appliances are energy star.
Starting recycling at home and at work. I work at a computer shop and have put in recycle bins for ink cartridges, batteries, and cell phones at the store.
And changed all our light bulbs.
KS1618 9 months ago
John thanks for all your hard work and information.
I just finished a large veggie garden with drip system.
Upgraded to an energy saving front load washer and all appliances are energy star.
Starting recycling at home and at work. I work at a computer shop and have put in recycle bins for ink cartridges, batteries, and cell phones at the store.
And changed all our light bulbs.
KS1618 9 months ago
Wandering who are these six people who clicked dislike button on this video. They must be scared, lost, unhappy people, eating lots of junk food, drinking lots of pop & pizza while watching lots of TV. Working either for gas corporations or pharmaceutical industry. They afraid of public transportation, bicycles, they don't have time to recycle, compost, read a book or cut a green salad. Who are these people?
SnowKitingVegan 9 months ago
Gonna use chicken poop on my tomatoes, plant beans and squash, and put my compost into a tumbler.
bradkrit 9 months ago
Gotta love the guy in the meat dept!
schoolbees 9 months ago
Hi John, big fans out here in good ole Pennsylvania. My wife and I have started our first garden with a 4x10 raised bed. Started seeds inside but learned the hard way about the process of harding slowly as we killed most all our little plants... No worries.... We just had to start over and try again...we sowed many seeds direct which seemed to work better...harvesting our first lettuce and hopefully soon some heirloom spinach.... With food prices increasing as fast as they are, people like you
keystoneprepper 9 months ago
I made a compost tea brewer out of a 45 gallon Kalamata olive barrel. My husband put a spigot at the bottom, it's on the edge of a terrace, and I use a 5 gallon bucket to get it to the veggies. I know, there's the whole aerobic/anaerobic controversy- mine does not have aeration only because it seems like more time and expense than I want to deal with. So far my plants love it. And I make my own compost from kitchen scraps, weeds, etc and chicken manure. My tomatoes are 3 feet tall!
bluebellyliz 9 months ago
I have my garden, and have gardened for a couple of years now. I have learned of many of veggies from your channel, and grow them.
I got my neighbor into gardening last year and finally got the old man across the street back into it. He got his neighbor back into it as well! Since my back yard garden is seen from the street out in the front, I may be responsible for two or three other gardens on the block! It's a revolution I tell you!
Now send me some zone 5 tolerant tree collards! Lolz!
HaslarHouse 9 months ago
The reason to eat a plant based diet (vegan) is not to save the planet. The reason is for our health and I don't recommend even 10% meat - I'd recommend 0%. Eating a meat based diet indeed takes a lot of resources and is contributing to the high prices for all foods and gas. The price we pay for eating meat is both health and financial - its not worth it. We exhale CO2 and plants exhale oxygen. CO2 is no more a pollutant than oxygen is.
houe250 9 months ago 2
You can tell this is absolutely heartfelt. Dont worry my friend your positive impact upon this planet is exponential, this weekend i will be planting 100 goji berry seeds. Im not in a position to buy from you at this time but i now you believe in your products and i would definitely purchase through you when i produce more of my own fruit
jamieclarke321 9 months ago
John, I've been inspired by you with growing food for a year now. I compost and have a worm farm, recycle, conserve water. I have a door that needs weather stripping and will look into the evolve shower sensor. Thanks again for all you do!
Whippetfest 9 months ago
hey john, I grow food in a vacant lot and my front, back and side yard.
EarthyPlum 9 months ago
Well, it's a little late, but I close on my house on the 27th and am moving south where I'm starting a solar powered greenhouse & extensive outdoor garden. Inside the greenhouse I'm going to implement aquaponics. No more grocery store. Ever. That ought to count for a couple of your 350!
EightOfCoins 9 months ago
I planted more food in my front yard. All of my food is in pots and they are growing great!
ddmm12407 9 months ago
At the 32:44 marker in this vid, you mention that your Evolve showerhead has a 1.5gpm flow. I went straight to the Evolve site after watching this video. I do see the cool Lady Bug adapter with the pull-string, as you have, for saving hot water, but I do not see the particular showerhead that you show in your video except in the 2.5gpm choices. The 1.5gpm offered on their site looks much smaller. Would you mind sharing with us the exact name of the particular one you have? Thanks, John!
kschouest 9 months ago
The one I purchased was about a year or two ago, at costco. I believe it was a special unit made for costco by evolve. Maybe it has since been discontinued? Im not sure. I dont have a specific 'model' name. The specs look very similiar to the roadrunner design they currently offer.
growingyourgreens 9 months ago
@growingyourgreens - Thanks so much for the quick response, John! That's very helpful. I'll mention this info to the Evolve people and see if they can help me track down that particular showerhead, or the one closest to it. ~K :)
kschouest 9 months ago
@growingyourgreens Thanks so much for the quick response, John - that's very helpful. The particular Roadrunner model currently on the Evolve site doesn't look like yours, but interestingly, when I Googled "evolve roadrunner," it brought up a bunch of sites selling a model that looks just like yours, and they all have rave reviews, which is great. Thanks again! ~Karen
kschouest 9 months ago
We went electricity-free this weekend (camping).
atwell8 9 months ago
Going to by seeds to grow for later.
chadsshow 9 months ago
Working on SIPS (sub irrigated planters) to reduce water footprint for my vegetable garden. Currently using two designs using cloth wicks and one that is based on Wicking Worm boxes. The wick designs are either 5 gallon buckets or 30 gallon Sterilite totes with separate reservoir drilled for fill tube, aeration, and wicks. The Wicking worm boxes will be based on a permi design from Australia with intent to reduce water use.
jburdine1956 9 months ago
My fiancee and I are going to hand wash our laundry this weekend. Lots of work but we do it as often as we can. Wash board and a little elbow grease!
nicko978 9 months ago
Since in a 3ft snowstorm we tend to visit our outdoor compost bin less often. I'm setting up worm bin to make faster compost year round in doors. But I had already planned to do that as well as plant more seeds this week. So I'll do a little extra for this. Since you were so persuasive and motivating! :)
For starters I will plant at least one more plant in every window. I'm sure I will think of more as the week progresses. I will share this video with all of my friends and family
nicko978 9 months ago
forgot to mention, it is called the "Maypop Passion Flower."
RobBurnsDrums 9 months ago
Hey John, great job on all of your videos, didn't hear about your challenge until Sunday but I was planting anyway, planted a bunch of lettuce and herbs and a perennial vine, Passion Flower. By the Way, have you ever grown passion flower? The one that I bought actually makes an edible fruit after the flower similar to passion fruit so I thought you might be interested.
RobBurnsDrums 9 months ago
Yes, I have grown passionflower for the fruit. It grew about 2 years before it didnt make the frost in the winter. I loved it. It was planted where my grape vines are currently planted. I would like to find a variety that is frost toleraant (of my climate) without protection in the winter AND has a bountiful and delicious harvest. I think I may have a passion flower vine growing in the greenhouse now. Another variety I will grow in the greenhouse soon(?) is Jamacian Orange. Very Sweet :)
growingyourgreens 9 months ago
Started a new section of raised beds in the backyard this weekend, will have made 50% utilization of that area with raised beds. This will make it the 5th raised bed to date, also purchased two solar panel kits from Harbor Freight, they are on sale in my area and with the additional discount coupons on the internet i only paid 129.00 each for the 45 watt system. They aren't bad, will loose 10% effency the first year but will stableize, using 2 deep cell batteries and 1500 watt pure sein inverter
FJvoodoo 9 months ago
was gone for the weekend so just getting this late, lighting a candle for light and not flushing till the morning, just for you John lol :D
venicestu 9 months ago
@ 32:00 this guy looks guilty of something lol. BTW I will be working on a compost project this weekend and raised garden beds.
StarStryder1 9 months ago
Guilty of Contributing to Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Supporting the Meat Industry?? or Maybe his wife thinks he's vegan and now she knows he isn't?
growingyourgreens 9 months ago 3
I built another 4 x 4 raised bed today, put all the compost in and planted, all in one day!
okhomestead 9 months ago
Already have
Low flow toilet, LED/Compact florescent on dimers , Worm bin/ compost, garden, insta-hot water heater, No AC, Solar panels, cloth diapers, recycle....
aerdna16 9 months ago
very nice video
thx a lot
I'm still looking to buy 1 acre land so I can build my cob house and build and run my small garden and farm
there is so much to learn and re-learn
cool70200 9 months ago
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onxy2011 9 months ago
Hi John,
I am not sure or not you will read this. This weekend, I put a raised bed and showed him how to plant the starts. Hope he will be successful. I have him started organic
myveggigarden 9 months ago
I've cleaned out the greenhouse and have tomatoes and peppers growing in their. I'm also growing rhubarb, strawberries, dwarf beans, mint, basil, carrots, beet-root, onions, scallions, radish, lettuce and potatoes and largely I've been inspired by you John. I've recently fitted a 210 litre water butt to the shed too and have two smaller ones (about 100l each) to fit to either side of the greenhouse. Love your channel mate. I might make a video to show you what I'm doing.
bilstonjay 9 months ago
My home came with a pre-installed irrigation system which uses "reclaimed water" (not potable). It's a great savings since water is so expensive in Fllorida, but has made growing my greens challenging. I now have a small area that has been retrofitted with drip irrigation so that berries and veggies that will be eaten raw can be grown there. Also planted 2 fruit trees this weekend - a lychee and a strawberry guava.
SimplyIncredulous 9 months ago
I am planting nitrogen fixers so I don't have to buy fertalizer. I'm starting seeds at home instead of buying starts. I grey water my shower. I catch rain water, I am planting more fruit trees. I'm farming an acre with 6 people to feed 2 families with Hugelkultur beds so we can grow large crops like melons and squash and corn leaving my house area for small crops.
jakithurman 9 months ago
Hi John,
Count me in ! I just added corn, herbs, and wax beans to my front yard garden, also mulched deeply to conserve water this summer in our intense central valleyCA heat,
and shredded paper for my compost bin. Later today will build a couple of bamboo trellis and start running drip irrigation to my new (old) redwood growing boxes made from very old (sixty yr old) apricot drying trays. Picked up the drying trays very cheaply, and feel good that those redwood trees will get repurposed.
dgreen97 9 months ago
i've started my compost pile with my new/free recycled compost bin. i planted 12 tomato plants and a whole bunch of other veggies in an existing bed and a bed i made of recycled materials and in recycled containers.
scarletttruth 9 months ago
I'll go buy the energy conserving power strip you showed (very cool), and also the toilet water conservation kits. Just finished planting a close to 200 plants, trees in my vegetable / fruit / flower garden. Also look for others... Great video by the way.
llcyll 9 months ago
120! Thanks for all the great videos John! I have learned so much.
princessjune11 9 months ago
I'm sheet mulching my front lawn this weekend and planting both vegetables and ornamentals. My back yard is already a vegetable garden.
PJDolan1 9 months ago
I'm sheet mulching my front lawn this weekend and planting both vegetables and ornamentals.
PJDolan1 9 months ago
What I am doing this weekend,I got a bunch of plastic easter buckets that the church across the street were throwing away.I drilled holes in the bottom put compost in them and a mix of lettuce,herbs and edible flowers.My kids are giving them to the teachers at there school.The teachers buy salads almost every day in plastic containers.So we are hoping to show them a better way to eat well..The total cost to me a little time and some seeds.The buckets were free,and the compost was free.=30 salads
yogirlabc 9 months ago
planted plants and car pooled any any where i needed to go
ManabuFarms 9 months ago
If you live where you can not change the toilet add a 1-2 liter bottle of water to the water tank on the back of the toilet and that will reduce the amount of water it uses to flush :)
Whatmytoddlerlikes 9 months ago
I just moved my hydroponic jalapenos plants outside into the garden (hope they take in soil, they are loaded with peppers already), added drip irrigation for my 4x8 sqft bed and a mister for my hanging black eyed susan this weekend!
haiweigh 9 months ago
I've learned so much from your channel. TY! My family of four lives in 850sq ft, we gave up pork and red meat last Oct, all of lights in our house are CFL, all of our electric devices our pluged into powerstrips and are off most of the time, both the bathroom and kitchen have low flow water attachments, our family has gone down to one veh recently, we recycle, and the seedlings I started are ready so I am making some earth boxes for our 6x6 patio this weekend. Small steps=BIG difference:)
Whatmytoddlerlikes 9 months ago
My wife and I built a raised bed and planted vegetables this weekend. We also stopped eating meat a year ago. We compost. I have been riding my bike to work for the last 2 week(19 miles). We have low flowing shower nozzle. We don't do this because of global warming theories though.
Greetings from Sweden.
EternitP8 9 months ago
Christine from Canada here. Love your "spunk " and energized personality. I did set up my rain barrels this weekend and planted 50 strawberry plants. I have set up two buckets at work ( work in a kitchen in our hospital here), everyone now puts food waste in these buckets and we all take turns taking home this waste for our compost piles. Next five year phase entails, adding fruit trees and bushes, aquaphonics system, greenhouse, fresh eggs, and meat. Thanks for your inspiration John.
westley1955 9 months ago
I'm planting squash this weekend. I literally doubled the size of my veggie garden this year.
whitepinek 9 months ago
yyyaaaaaaa
Vladivostok41 9 months ago
This week I have bought a hybrid car (Toyota Auris) and this coming week I am recycling a palette that my daughter's fish tank was delivered on, by turning it into a compost bin.
I am loving the car - it is so relaxing to drive because it is so quiet. I can get over 80 miles to the gallon if I drive economically (and at least 70 if I'm not even trying).
SueMoseley 9 months ago
Hi John
I have been watching your videos for 6 months now. Since then I have
1. Installed 2 raised beds 4X8ft
2.Setup Compost Bin
3. Growing my own food - pumpkin, cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, bok choy etc
4. Setup a worm farm
5. Having lunch from Garden produce - Salads
Love your videos. Keep them coming.
rdeguara99 9 months ago
I will be working in my garden all weekend . I am going to grow more greens. I need help on what's the best to grow, to convince family members to eat healthy.I will also work on rain water collection .
nini51963 9 months ago
I mulched my garden, have a rainwater catchment barrel, two compost piles and grow some lettuce, broccoli, cauli flower, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, corn and sellery!
Best stuff in my garden are the berries. Currants need near to no maintance at all! :)
highskilledsibby 9 months ago
You need to watch the movie" HOME"its here on youtube,biofuelsarenot all good! they are actually not even close to good ! check it out, they are using up our food when we are destined for a food crisis !
GardenNewbie 9 months ago
This is the second year I've done the 350 garden challenge. Last year I planted the start of a food forest. This year I'm preserving strawberry jam and starting a garden at my office at the edge of the parking lot.
4cysmith 9 months ago
Great vidio John Just building my first raised bed for veg thanks john for all your video you take care eddie northern ireland
Hanson4084 9 months ago
Great vidio John Just building my first raised bed for veg thanks john for all your video you take care
Hanson4084 9 months ago
Also this weekend OSH has no sales tax so we went and got our gardening supplies, liquid kelp, chickie doo doo fertilizer and a new valve for the toliet...:)
WidowsHill1970 9 months ago
Filled raised beds with soil and starting to plant organic veggie seedlings and hubby fixed valve in the toliet this weekend...:)
WidowsHill1970 9 months ago
LOL! who's the dude at 32:00? he high-tailed it out of there when he found out you were filming. Maybe he's camera shy?
mieshie 9 months ago
Finished up my new upgraded garden bed this weekend. Built the same way John builds his with PVC installed to run irrigation. I am going to use a mix of emitters and T-Tape. My garden is a 12' x 12' square with a 2' wide "hallway" in the middle of one side that leads to an open 4' x 4' area in the center of the garden. The garden is 16" deep on one side and 22" on the other side (my yard is sloped). I left the outer posts taller to attach fencing to keep animals out. I have 120 square foot of g
jimmieroy 9 months ago
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added a 4 x 10 raised bed today! thanks john! need to fill it with dirt and compost, but the frame is all in. Check it out here... changinggreen.blogspot.com Thanks John for all the awesome videos! Saving to buy my Vitamix from you!
rpage02 9 months ago
Great video John!
This weekend I'm working on more garden beds.
My TDI Jetta gets the same mileage as my friends Prius, and sometimes better, I generally get 48-50MPG and averaged 52mpg once on a 1200 mile trip
I also have an on demand water heater for half of my house that is really nice.
therawlifefamily 9 months ago
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supporting the most versatile plant on earth
SpikenAL 9 months ago
1. shower= i have a 5 gallon bucket which i use to capture water while waiting for the hot water to kick in. i use the water to pour into the back of the toilet tank or in the kitchen, when its time to use the garbage disposal.
2. toilet=flush solids only.
3. kitchen=i started a worm bin recently.
finally, to all the uneducated knuckle draggers out there, glen beck, rush limbaugh, and sean hannity are not scientists. you are exposing your ignorance to the world. lets not politicize johns vid
doctorsocal 9 months ago
thanks for the update....planting tomatoes and peppers in 5 gallon pots for my son's patio...also herbs. also loaded up my composter with new stuff...it's cooking happily. picked the first pea pod of spring. potato is growing happily in my trash bin. won't be driving tomorrow either.
hoofmama 9 months ago
looking forward to affordable led grow lights
9tonyupholster23 9 months ago
@9tonyupholster23 I've just been reading about them and it turns out that they aren't as effective as HID lamps although they do consume a fraction of the electricity. They apparently need supplementation with some other form of lighting for optimal growth.
therawlifefamily 9 months ago
I'm planting my home veggie garden, which was inspired by John's video a year or two ago!
online4videos 9 months ago
Next weekend I will plant two new raised beds, have planted a cherry tree, and will plant fast-growing vines to keep my deck cooler in the summer. Also re-routing the drainpipe to accommodate a rain barrel which will be delivered in two weeks!
Let's get back to the earth, and be as effective as we can!
Italics62 9 months ago
i like the idea of the evolve shower head....its going in sunday
HalfFull 9 months ago
Will use fewer lights inside home
johnatncsu 9 months ago
1. shower= i have a 5 gallon bucket which i use to capture water while waiting for the hot water to kick in. i use the water to pour into the back of the toilet tank or in the kitchen, when its time to use the garbage disposal.
2. toilet=flush solids only.
3. kitchen=i started a worm bin recently.
finally, to all the uneducated knuckle draggers out there, glen beck, rush limbaugh, and sean hannity are not scientists. you are exposing your ignorance to the world.
doctorsocal 9 months ago
crunnrlls 9 months ago
i just got the fig tree planted so that's a plum and fig tree
MulitCreativeFlow 9 months ago
Sunday's dinner will be lentils and cabbage. I already catch the water from hand dishwashing, etc for flushing my old 50s toilet using only 2.5 gallons to flush. Been using CFL's for 12 years. Wed I put in a small herb garden. Still have a few plants to put in but the soil is too wet, Hopefully I can finish Mon. Today (Sat), I shopped at my local farmer's market getting fruit and veggies that are in season for freezing instead of buying prepackaged frozen fruit for smoothies.
msfullroller 9 months ago
In addition to adding onto my own garden this year, over the weekend I have welcomed some friends who live in a small apartment to use a part of my yard to build their own raised bed and start a veggie garden. :)
sbgrower000 9 months ago
Nice video John. today already i planted lavender, and started a compost pile! peace and lots of love, keep posting my brother
L3TLIFEBee 9 months ago
Just planted 5 fruit trees, heritage tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. Also got a rain barrel. Also planted rasberry, blackberry, and blueberries.
Also using vinegar for household cleaning.
garden333 9 months ago
John 90% of the bio-diesel fuel in us is from algae. The biggest investor and maker of these algae based bio D is Hal Wriggley the inventor of robo-grip pliers.
ericash28 9 months ago
Personally, I like most of your videos, your philosophy on growing one's own food, but this man-made climate change propaganda has been debunked numerous times. Besides, with all the air travel you do, don't you and Al Gore think you're more than a little hypocritical? Mankind has plenty of serious environmental problems that need to be addressed. The CO2 global warming hoax focuses attention on false goals.
jwwm2 9 months ago
Putting a brick or 2 into tank on toilet will also cut water bill.
GospelTruth37059 9 months ago
I planted a plum tree today
MulitCreativeFlow 9 months ago
Started a garden this year in totes \0/ you and another got me enthused! Hardly have to water we have been getting so much rain hahaha. Yes and we catch rain water also.
GospelTruth37059 9 months ago
John this vid shows 8 ways to use soda bottles the first is fill with water and place in your toilet bowl
youtube com/ watch?v=G1XBSoovQtY
MulitCreativeFlow 9 months ago
why is it such a taboo to mention the reproductive behaviour ?
its about the effects of consumption one additional human and all of his offspring too will have on the world...
thousands of only diapers when youre born and thousands when you die...
i did some experiments inspired by globalbuckets org
babylonoise 9 months ago
1. Growing edible bamboo shoots
2. Growing water chestnuts
3. Growing our own organic foods in general
4GreenEarth2 9 months ago
Inspired by post... finally added a 125 strip of radish, some beautiful Rainbow Kale (inspired by one of your video's), and a zillion saved sprouted Organic Garlic Cloves to garden.
pinkwoolsocks 9 months ago
when buying new windows make sure they have infrared reflecting coating- another ~20 % saving energy
babylonoise 9 months ago
the warm waste water should stay in a tank for a while so it can warm the house or prewarm the hot water aso...
babylonoise 9 months ago
Hi John. Planting plans on hold here in the Midwest, rain, rain again, and drenched swimming plants in planters, and seedling flats. Bok Choi seeds up and racing toward the sun behind the clouds. Peas, carrots, beats, swiss chard planted earlier last week. Raspberry starts transplated, too. Watching computer moniter with new high power LED light which is equivalent to a 100 w incandescent bulb, and uses 13 watts.
jazz61021 9 months ago
This weekend, Im working on project putting in new raised beds in a backyard in Las Vegas (Yes! There will be an upcoming episode on it!)
growingyourgreens 9 months ago 2
@growingyourgreens Can't wait to see it. Vegas needs more good gardeners around here!
ASFx2600 9 months ago
350 parts per million = 0.00035%
The atmosphere of Mars is thinner than ours, but it is also about 80% CO2.
Mars is very very cold.
It makes we wonder about the NWO CO2 math.
CelticSouthland 9 months ago
Hi John,
This weekend I'm working in the garden planting cuttings I obtained from the local Asian market....I'm really into trying to 'root' things. I have some malabar spinach that I have grown from seed, but will fill out the bed with cuttings. There's also some mints and orach and amaranth too, so I'm trying it. Also going to plant some Jerusalem artichokes. Need to turn my compost pile (way overdue). Really interested in the tree collards. All my soil is hand worked, no pesticides. Cheers!
Saywardstudio 9 months ago
Very nice video and video series. I am so happy to see someone showing people how to grow their own food, and conserve natural resources. Kudos to you and keep up the good work, the planet appreciates you!!
AlivenJuicy 9 months ago
I'm growing my own food, reduce garbage (big time) and recycle the little garbage I do buy, I capture showerwater to water my plants by putting a wateringcan in the shower next to me to fill up while I shower, I don't even have a driverslicence to begin with=> so no car for me, bus, train, tram, subway and bike only(I live in holland where this is pretty common) I lways unplug my chargers! They use energy when not charging plus they make allot of noise that we can't hear, but our poor pets can!
Illchangeitlater 9 months ago
hey John,... girls dont' do their makeup before they take a shower LOL but I know what your saying and that's cool ~Amanda
GettingThereGreen 9 months ago
save water in buckets to water garden.
Allen2045 9 months ago
Compact fluorescent bulbs contain mercury. where does that mercury end up when the bulb burns out????
cosmiceon 9 months ago
i'm planting 4 maters plants today may 14th great videos John
bobinmissouri 9 months ago
i will drive less and avoid meat. i will also take shorter showers and pee outside to save water.
cosmiceon 9 months ago
LMAO at the guy in the background at 31:56 ...
FYI, I'm starting a second compost pile this weekend
RookieGardner 9 months ago
@RookieGardner ha ha!!! I skipped ahead in the video to 31:56 when I saw your comment. and I literally really laughed out loud at the guy!!! ~Amanda
GettingThereGreen 9 months ago
@GettingThereGreen LOL glad I could direct you to a good chuckle, I wonder if John even noticed it yet... ;-)
RookieGardner 9 months ago
Hey John, the organic capacity of the soil is measured in carbon! I want to have a higher organic capacity in my soil, so I can grow more food! With so much carbon in the atmosphere, we have a great opportunity to increase the productivity of our soil, naturally, by getting plants to pull it into the ground, where it will make more plants! All life is carbon based, carbon is life!
Helioforge 9 months ago
i salvaged 15 tree containers that a local landscaping company had thrown into a jobsite dumpster at a construction site i was working on Friday. they are huge 47 gallons! I hate to think how many had been hauled away to the landfill already, but at least i saved a few. Great vid john, keep up the great work!
1978graham 9 months ago
Built a raised bed and started harvesting rainwater
cndoorack9 9 months ago
Hi John, wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your channel. I have learned a great deal. This weekend i'm ordering my seeds and buying some containers to start my garden. Thank you again.
roxana9875 9 months ago
I am a very conservative person already. I'm waiting for those led lights to come down I have one in my kitchen. Rest of the house has CFL's even though my goal is to eliminate all of them this year. They give me a headache when I have all the lights on. My car project is a 300 TD Mercedes bought it just to use a bio diesel. Also have a 240D Mercedes.
Zippypo 9 months ago
awesome idea John. I expanded my garden this year. Place a 5 gallon bucket in your shower to collect water before its warm. I use the water in my garden. My water bill dropped last year.
wizmac17 9 months ago
Who the hell puts a toilet on a shelf?!
norxcontacts 9 months ago
Another interesting idea some people can try for their garden is using a product called CalCarb by Xtreme-Gardening. It's supposed to help the plants suck up more co2 from the air around them, which will make the plants grow BIGGER, reduce co2, and generate more oxygen.
ASFx2600 9 months ago
Great video! Here are some things that i've already done and/or will do this weekend:
-Replace all bulbs with Energy-saving CFLs
-Timers on all bathroom fans, garage lights, & porch light
-Sub surface irrigation in garden to reduce evaporation
-Upgraded insulation on house
-Turn lights off when I leave the room
-Compost EVERYTHING I possibly can with a bin outside & worm bin inside.
-Low flow toilets
-No MEAT this weekend!
-Plant around 32 more peppers & tomatoes in my back yard!
ASFx2600 9 months ago 4
@ASFx2600 Instead of CFLs which are more hype than functional (I have regular bulbs routinely outlast my CFLs, sadly I bought into their hype before learning about them), look into LED based bulbs which in theory last about 5x longer than CFL and consume about 1/5th of the electricity.
therawlifefamily 9 months ago
@therawlifefamily I replaced all the bulbs in my whole house with cheap CFLs from Sams club several years ago, and none have burned out yet. I think they have definitely already paid for themselves. I'm sure it depends on the brand too. LEDs are definitely more efficient, but they are also extremely expensive. I'm not ready to do that yet until they get much cheaper.
ASFx2600 9 months ago
@ASFx2600
wow dude, you are a super achiever!
i like that about you too.
enovalee 9 months ago
@enovalee Thanks! I try my best.
ASFx2600 9 months ago
Well not just this weekend but an ongoing project that my city is working on and I am involved with is a community garden that we are almost completed with, we are a "cool city" meaning that we are concerned with air, water and earth. It's a program setup through Sierra club. This is one of the reasons I found you I needed help and ideas about gardening and came across your vids! Great job John.... we are concerned with sustainable energy there are a lot of vids on solar energy.
asynvegas 9 months ago
Drinking bottled water is terrible for the environment! it produces a huge amount of waste. The water bottle companies often steal water rights from local communities. And the water quality they must follow is not as stricked as city water quality regulations. Get a water filter and if you are worried about chlorine, just let your glass or pitcher of water sit for about 15 min, The chlorine will evaporate very quickly, once it smells chlorine free you can add ice, or refrigerate it.
phantomcreamer 9 months ago
Lots of good product placement John!
lotusblossomed 9 months ago
I love all your videos and am such a huge groupie! I hang clothes to dry, catch shower water in bucket to flush toilet, hand wash my dishes, have a worm compost bin, grow my food in self-watering container. Still looking for ways to do more.... Great job John!
keonakidd 9 months ago
Well I just planted my Litchi tomatos in my front yard cedar fence garden box, planted some scarlet runner beans and nasturtiums to climb up the trellis behind it. Then I planted lettuce, parisienne, and turnips along the front of the trellis to take up the extra nitrogen from the beans. Finally I spread native mint, basalm, and native plant and grass seeds around the perimeters of the litchi tomatoes. One sunchoke in a corner. A lot of which was inspired by John, thanks bro.
phantomcreamer 9 months ago
Great videos! I have doubled my vegetable and herb garden this year with four additional raised beds.
patboardman 9 months ago
2.5 gallons per minute from the shower... wow. I'll take shorter showers this weekend. :)
lorsparky 9 months ago
love your vids buddy i have started a pretty large garden this year and have also finally motivated 2 of my buddys to start groing food this year one of which lives in an apartment keep up the good work
wigglydogs 9 months ago
after harvesting a few sq feet of radishes I just planted some Egyptian Spinach in its place. Yum Nom Nom Yum!
BubbleBeet 9 months ago
John,
Help!!! I live in Sandy Utah and I can not find anyone who has, let along know what rock dust is. Where do I find it locally???
Kim
katraofdragonslair@gmail.com
katra4813 9 months ago
Co2 is not a pollutant! It's just another way for our govt' to tax us and exert control over free people. I grow food, recycle and conserve resources because it is the right way to live but I won't be coerced into using rhetoric designed to force control over me and my freedoms. It's a LIE.
PilgrimLad 9 months ago 10
@PilgrimLad you are an idiot.
eddie198 9 months ago
@eddie198 Oh I convinced now!? Thank you so much!? Please refrain from ad hominem attacks and tell me why you think I'm an idiot. There is no evidence to support you view of carbon being a pollutant. Just because people say it, it does not make it true.
PilgrimLad 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad Who said it's a pollutant? The gov't is not taxing carbon you imbecile! I disagree with a cap and trade and a carbon tax. CO2 may not be a pollutant like CFC's or aerosols, but the abundant use of fossil fuels is having an effect on our climate. It's one thing to disagree with the philosophy of how to go about mitigating/adapting to climate change, but to claim that the science is a farce is ignorant. 95% of scientists agree that global climate change is the result of humans.
eddie198 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad I would also like to point out that 95% of scientists agree smoking increases your risk of cancer, 5% disagree. Yet when 95% of scientists say humans are causing climate change, there is a huge controversy. I don't want to make assumptions about you, but I would strongly suggest that you look at both sides on this debate. It's one thing to believe science you read out of journals it's another to believe what Glenn Beck tells you. Do yourself and America a service, open a book.
eddie198 9 months ago
@eddie198 Okay according to you I'm an idiot and an imbecile. But so far your appeal to authority has been deductively fallacious. I would also like to point out that 86.35% of statistics are made up and stick to your instinct and don't make assumptions because you are wrong.
PilgrimLad 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad Dtto!
phlegma0162 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad
Well said. If carbon is soooo bad, then why is the only solution to TAX it? Carbon tax is ridiculous. The people in control of what makes the most pollution and sell you the shit that pollutes...wants to tax you on your way of life because you are bad.
amusingisthedawn 9 months ago
I planted 5 blueberry bushes and 3 cherry trees about 25 minutes ago...but that was before I saw this video, does it count? :)
amusingisthedawn 9 months ago
Biodiesel isn't biofuel, they are two different things. Biodiesel is quite wasteful and is like 80% petroleum fuel, biofuel is waste oil, like veggie oil...but not all cars can run on it, and it destroys engines over time. Just plain DIESEL is the best. We can make diesel engines that can get 80-100mpg, but they aren't being made for some reason... PS-biofuel can be ingested (wouldn't do it...but it's not toxic) biodiesel will kill you.
amusingisthedawn 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad
I do agree, as the plants themselves breath CO2 and release O2 otherwise known as breathable air. Doing the right thing with no excuses for no reason other than it is the right thing to do, right on brother.
Dancerpro1 9 months ago
@PilgrimLad I agree completely. That being said, recently I saw something stating that a 6C increase in average global temperature would essentially kill all life, and I thought to myself, hmm, I know that the jurassic, etc were much warmer than now (no ice caps, etc), but by how much warmer was it? Turns out that the dinosaurs lived on earth when it was 7C (15F) warmer than it is now. Talk about a scam!
therawlifefamily 9 months ago
Buy local. Water my container and raised bed garden with captured rain water. Install Solatubes. Flipping switches off. Air dry dishes. Hang out clothes to dry. Open windows. Buy cloth diapers!
PSROle 9 months ago
Hey John great video. I am going to give out more veggies to my neighbours. I am also going to plan out another redwood box for my garden to grow more veggies. I am also going to start a garden club in Las Vegas. I plan to upload more videos to show people you can grow veggies in Las Vegas all year long..
SteveHarpster 9 months ago
Cut down on my electric use.
theracemixer 9 months ago
buy a new more efficient freezer to replace the dinosaur in my basement
tbirdzuko 9 months ago
Love your videos John. Each year, I try to do a little more to help save the earth and grow better veggies...installed a raised bed, wine barrel planters, composting system, worm composting system. This weekend I will make a point to finish installing my drip irrigation system. It killed my hands, but I'll complete my project for th planet. Keep on growin'!
schoolbees 9 months ago
@SleepIsMagic top man ... john is at it all the time too , he's spreading the word ...s'all good
VonLeachim 9 months ago
I definitely got my compost started this weekend. used some fencing scraps i had around the house for the container. cleaned up all the leaf piles around the house.
btw1219 9 months ago
John I'll be planting more veggies in the allotment this weekend organic grown - without cattle or chicken faecal matter, make own compost from plants
though will co2 not makes plants grow faster as they 'breath' it ?
also we just recycled our car and gone almost vegan except for eggs - from neighbour
BTW
UK peoples : landshare . net for land if you haven't got any to grow veggies or are on the allotment waiting list
I believe it's by hugh fearnley whittingstall - rivercottage
VonLeachim 9 months ago
I will plant more plants. Reduce power and water usage.
sam229a 9 months ago
Great video, John. I'm planting my first veggie garden. I've also converted several light fixtures to CFL and/or LED bulbs. I bought a low-flow showerhead, but I like your setup better (love that on/off switch!) than what I have, so I'm going to return mine and switch to a setup like yours!
kschouest 9 months ago
I will plant more tree, veagetblae, flower for my bees, ect........ I life a green life. Let me know how I could help.
69masterdragon69 9 months ago
We just converted a small deep freezer to a refrigerator. It is using 1/6 the energy of our old refrigerator. Plus we are converting our garden to an edible landscape. Shari
havfaith56 9 months ago
Propagate Maple Trees, Water plants using 110gallon cistern fed drip irrigation system, Plant tomatoes by the heat pump.
Taketheride23 9 months ago
Hey John, what's your average MPG for using biodiesel?
norxcontacts 9 months ago
Shared my composting worms with the neighbors
dieselgrumpy 9 months ago