Looking at Sprouts and Microgreens (small Scale)

Well my 2020 garden is in full swing. The tomatoes, squash, potatoes and peppers are prolific. I am waiting on my Okra and have had a meal only once, but more is coming. I also have a large amount of late seed potatoes to put in this week. It’s getting hot and humid here and it finally looks like there will be no more north wind in June (which we had). It looks like that is over. While the heat is great, I some how suspect that we will have a short summer and quickly go into a cool fall. I also have a feeling I will be harvesting late potatoes and Yams.

So what is up on my plate for the hot summer in my house? As the above states, I am growing sprouts and microgreens for all that salad I will be eating as I pick huge amounts of all types of tomatoes. Below are some pictures from a manual I am developing.

On another note, my wife just about has had it on me using her Nana room as she calls it for an office, so I am in the process of moving into one of our old and small (but air conditioned. RVs. To get my attention, she now has to call me on on of my radio’s. I must admit it is a bit quieter out here in the RV.

Here is a bit from my manual I am developing. Note: Probably in about three months, I will have an online store. I will also be looking for some Team Members to help me with it, so stay tuned.

Wondering?
Why grow food in your home?
I can imagine what you are thinking about food after going through the Corona Virus and feeding your family. That is exactly what is going through my mind and is why I am writing this little book. We live in a JET (Just in Time) world when it comes to food. Your local food store has at best 3 days of food on the shelf. It has a few hours of food if everyone who shops there for some reason like an ice or snow storm, hurricane or perhaps some dangerous social problems decides to stock up. The shelves would become empty. The JIT truck has just loaded up its haul to the store. The grocery store is low on some items, and that is where the trucks come in. If for some reason the trucks can’t get to the grocery store, the products that had a low inventory will soon be out and will not be replenished. At that point Too Bad – No Food. Hard to realize but the difference between having food and not having any is a truck and a warehouse that runs the trucks. What has been written above has always been that way, especially as people went from growing their own food (perhaps like your grandparents) to depending on purchasing food from the local grocery store. I would agree that it has been nice to get food from all over the US and food from many different countries. I bet you have enjoyed doing that as well.

What it all comes down to is three things:
• Growing Food and processing it
• Warehousing the food
• Distributing the food (JIT Truck)
If any of these three things fails, there will be little food to purchase, that is unless you grow your own food which this book is all about.

Wonder No More
The iGrow Green Machine located at our store (Mart) has thought out a solution to food and food security. It really didn’t take much thinking; we only had to look back at our relatives that grew their own food. We just sort of copied what they did, but inserted some more modern things to make it easier to get started,
Lets face it, it would not be easy to one day just decide to get a tractor and start farming. What the iGrow Green Machine has come up with is a way to grow you own food at home or in your back yard or In a small apartment. No tractors required and no digging in the dirt unless you want to. So follow along as we explore growing food at HOME!

The WHY of it

Why growing food in your home?
As you have just gone through the Corona Virus experience, you have seen the many things that have created problem with the food chain. At the moment while this has been written, things have gotten even worse, and at least where I live there has been a large increase in food prices. Even this should be enough to make you start thinking about growing your own food, but there is one thing on the horizon and that is that we will be looking at climate change and what warmer or cooler conditions in the coming years which will have a huge impact on the global food supply.
Huge food price increases
Possible Social Unrest
Global Cooling / Warming
Financial Problems
Any of the above things could take food off your table and leave you or your family hungry.

The End Game

If you are new to growing food, then this is the place to be. The path to food security is a path of many directions, but here at iGrow Green Machine, we have mapped out a really simple path. This path starts out simple and as you become more confident, grows in complexity as you progress down this path.
Before we start this path, let’s look at what the ending will look like. It’s always a good idea to see where you eventually end up as you progress.

That path should end with you actually Growing and Eating and Storing food that you actually grew. Not food from the store but YOUR OWN food.

Solutions

So to get started, here are our suggestions. Obviously they are products we really feel will make your transition into growing food easy and successful. All of these are available on our online store.
Step 1 – Growing sprouts and microgreens Inside you home
Step 2 – Growing in a grow tower in your home
Step 3 – Setting up a grow bag system outside

Solutions Step 1
Sprouts and Microgreens
Growing sprouts and microgreens is pretty easy and will provide you and your family some really tasty things that you can eat directly or add to your salads, soups, that special sandwich you like to make or just about any food.
The wonderful thing about sprouts and microgreens are that they are nutrient dense. They provide many of the vitamins and other things that contribute to a healthy body and immune system. If you eat these two super foods you probably won’t need to take a multi-vitamin. Beside all the above reasons to grow and eat sprouts and microgreens, there is one other good reason. That reason is that they are kid friendly.

Solutions Step 1 (sprouts)

Sprouts
Growing sprouts is simple and it’s relatively inexpensive. Sprouts can provide you with the super food and the power-packed nutrition your body needs at a price that is right. So by growing sprouts, you can save money while eating right. Sprouts are just that sprouted seeds. You eat the seed sprout. With Microgreens you don’t eat the seeds or roots and only the stalk and leaf. More on Microgreens later.

Solutions Step 1 (sprouts)

Well that enough of that. Here a few closing pictures of sprouts and micogreens I am growing inside this summer:

Day 8 – microgreens not harvested yet and still under a grow light:

Well that’s all from Central Texas. I hope all of you ( you all as they say in Texas)are doing well and have returned to work.

Remember to keep your immune system in good shape and this virus will just fly past you. Recommend (not medical advice) Vitamin C, Spirulina, Chlorophyllin, St. Johns Wort, Zinc and Vitamin D3.

Go out side and get plenty of sun so all of these can work properly as they are all photo (sun) activated.

Wishing you all the best.

Dennis

Have you noticed that the enemy has poked their heads out for all of us to see lately? Like Senator Elizabeth Warren want a “Corona virus Containment Corps“. Yep they want to track us down, take our blood and temperature. Bill Microsoft Gates want us all to have a vaccine and to have a certification. The WHO wants to take care of all this from a global stand point. And the ?pope? wants to give me a universal income so I can sit on my rear and do nothing.

So what is going on here while we all listen to our rulers as we watch crappy video and TV at home? What people don’t understand is that we have four enemies. All of them want to kill most of us. One of them wants to kill ALL of us. These four are the following:

1. The Red Guy with horns known to most of us as Satan. Or Lucifer called the Light bringer, shining one, light-bearer but it’s a dark light.
2. The Globalist. (every thing except the CCP and Russia)
3. The CCP (The Chinese Communist Party)
4. Russia

Two (2) through four (4) all work for the Red Guy. Number two directly, and the CCP and Russia indirectly. The CCP and the Russians probably don’ts believe in a God, but two (2) for sure knows and they are in bed with the Red Guy (1).

Almost all our worlds leaders (except for the CCP (3) and Russia (4)) are in bed with the Globalist (2). The CCP and Russia have a sort of agreement on who gets the world when this is all over.

The Globalist want to reduce the earth’s population by 80% but the CCP and Russia just want to kill all those who occupy what they think of as their land at the moment. The CCP is slathering out of their mouths for the USA. One problem is that they don’t want any people in the US, so they must be destroyed. Looks like Russia will get Canada and Alaska in the deal and perhaps parts of Europe. India belongs to the CCP for sure. The Globalist just want it all and probably realize that the CCP and Russia doe not see it that way.

Wonderful right? We now have four enemies, one of which wants to kill all humans. One that works for the Red Guy, but don’t understand that he wants them dead after he uses them to kill all of us off. Finally we are looking at the CCP and Russia and they want us to get off their property (as in dead).

Two (2) through four (4) don’t want to use nuclear weapons as this messes up the real estate and the Red Guy (1) doesn’t really care.

So are we up the creek without a paddle? I would say yes, except there is a paddle, and that would be Jesus. I think He said that men’s hearts would fail them with the things that are coming.

But it gets worse. The globalist (2) see the CCP (3) and Russia (4) as the enemy. So the real estate may really get messed up if things go nuclear.

So how does the CCP get rid of all those stinking Americans on their land without messing up the properly? My idea is an EMP, and wait for 90% of Americans to kill each other or die. Use a Neutron Bomb which kills people but does not destroy property. The Neutron Bomb is a low yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The problem is that it kills everything living like bees, birds, animals etc. Not all that clean. And last, how about a virus. Perhaps the one that escaped from china?

All the above is pretty nasty for sure. I absolutely believe everything I have written above. So what is a poor human to do? With all this coming at us at supersonic speed things don’t look so good at the moment.

Here are my thoughts. In the end it will be the globalist who will win. I am thinking that China has way too many people to feed, and the Grand Solar minimum may cause the CCP to be tossed out by hungry people. You can be sure that is worrying them at the moment.

The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian at this URL Here.

There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio-weapons have been invented one after another. Of course, we have not been idle, in the past years we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a sudden.
So here is why the CCP wants the US. ” If the Chinese people are strapped to the present land, a total societal collapse is bound to take place”.

Think about it. All this is becoming very obvious. Every day there seems to be something else comng our way. Not just the above four, but the Grand Solar Minimum, collapse of food, and the weakening of the earth’s magnetic field. Boy do we need a break! Global Warming anyone?

Best of everything from Central Texas

Dennis

I eat a all plant diet and have for about a year. I am now 77 and have as much energy as I did when I was much younger. This book (PDF) is free. To get this Book HERE.

So how are you feeling sitting there in your home just waiting for things to happen? What will our rulers and masters tell us to do next? Sorrowfully, probably 93% of the worlds population will go along with what they are told to do. The war on meat and food is just one part of what our rulers and masters want. Have you noticed that these lock downs are actually destroying the middle class even more. When I say middle class, I am talking about people who actually employ people and run small businesses. When we come out of this if we ever do, there will be a solution. The solution is that all of us rich and poor will need to be vaccinated. You will need proof that this has happened or you will not be allowed to go in public. No trips to the store or even drive your car.

First, lets be clear, this virus we are experiences kills. The following is my take on all of this. I would suspect that this virus kills people who have really bad immune systems. So who might that be? If you have had chemotherapy, then that completely killed your immune system. If you have some really bad infection or medical problem and you are taking drugs then you may have a compromised immune system. If you diet really sucks and you are a fast food addict then you may be compromised. If you stay inside and are rarely exposed to the sun, you may have weakened your body’s defense systems. Americans may have the worst diet in the world. Diet can contribute to a compromised immune system. GMO, junk, fast and processed foods are horrible for your health. Drinking, smoking and doing drugs take another link out of your body’s defense system. And finally it kills older people especially those in care centers. Why is this. It’s a no brainier. Most of the people there suffer from some medical condition that requires care and attention. If you are older, say my age which will be 77 this coming May, you probably have some medical condition you are being treated for. You may have eaten a horrible diet all your life. You may be weak and stay in a lot, get little or no exercise and rarely go out in the sun. Obesity is another killer. Just being overweight can have health effects. You may be taking drugs that compromise your immune system.

So lets look at another thing. Being shut up in your home can cause mental problems. Humans were never made to be isolated. Being isolated can cause health problems. You need the sun and to get that you need to go outside. This is a sneaky virus which seems to have the ability to infect people easily. So when it gets into your body, and you have a great immune system, you may have the sniffles or nothing at all.

Viruses are nothing new. There are perhaps millions of them in our environment. If it were not for the body’s immune system, humanity would not exist. It’s a healthy immune system that protects us from the viruses. So just being healthy goes a long way in protecting us.

The crux of the problem and an observation: If your system has a top notch immune system, this virus will probably just fly by you. BUT, any thing you do to destroy or interfere with your immune system makes you a target. With this virus, it looks like a short trip from a compromised immune system to being infected, to the hospital and in some cases a bad outcome. The solution? Stay healthy.

Below is a blog I wrote last year. You may have been reading about meat shortages, no eggs, or chicken and pork in short supply at the grocery store. All this works into what this shutdown from the virus is doing to our food system. Personally, I no longer eat meat, fat, oils, milk or eggs or any thing made from these items. But I don’t have a war on meat. I like all these things, but at my age with a history of heart problems (bypass surgery and diabetes) my decision to go plant based is my choice, not something being decided for me.

Here are three great YouTube video’s on plant based health. Please don’t eat one of those bloody burgers!

Link one HERE
LINK two HERE
Link three HERE

Yes there is a war going on and it’s trying to kill our consumption of that horrible disgusting meat.

As you probably believe (wink wink) that eating meat is warming the planet, and if we don’t stop will burn up the planet and we will all die!

From the Urban Dictionary:

If you have never heard the term “useful idiot” it was the attitude held by Vladimir Lenin towards communist sympathizers in the West (America). While Lenin and the Soviets held them in utter contempt they also viewed them as tools for dispensing communist propaganda to other countries, thus infecting foreign cultures with their totalitarian tripe. After their mission was complete, they were no longer “useful.”

Perhaps most were sent to reeducation camps and other places.

It’s a term the refers to brainwashed American Marxists who blindly support any ideology that gets themselves out of real work and causes others to pay their way. Jeepers, I hope I don’t offend anyone with the above. But surely anyone who believes that destroying the consumption of meat and eliminating animal agriculture to save the planet must be a “Useful Idiot”. But that’s my opinion and I am a flawed human. I have constructed a few graphics below for you to enjoy.

Coming to a school and restaurant near you. Yes veggy burgers are the real thing. I tried one as a test. Disgusting at best. Created gastric anomalies and was not sure what I was eating.

Yes meat products thanks to chemistry. My taste buds are on overdrive right now!

OK so whats this war all about? So what is the agenda. There is always an agenda and it’s not always obvious but this one sure is obvious. Its called global CONTROL of food.

The end result of all this is for corporations to supply all your food. Modern agriculture is frowned upon, and will ultimately reduce their bottom line if you eat good healthy nutrient dense foods you grew or others provided. It is the agenda of globalists that want to put humanity in a box where the will be forced fed (pun intended) anything they like. It’s the complete subjugation of humanity on a massive global arena.

Just think. At this moment if you are lucky, you are a FREE RANGE SLAVE. Yes you can move from place to place, but the company owns you and the store ( and your house if you actually purchased one) and this will get much much worse.

While I watch all this play out, I am amazed what people are not doing to save themselves from all this madness.

What they are not doing in my favorite bullet points:

• Drinking the cool-aide
• Be happy don’t worry as they drive down the road with their cell phone in front of them.
• Not preparing for the above agenda
• Not preparing for the Super Grand Solar Minimum
• Sitting on their posteriors doing useless things like looking at their big screen TV
• Eating the incredible bad for you GMO and processed foods
• Not preparing for most anything
• Not growing their own food
• Not starting local communities
• Having at best two weeks of food in their homes
• When things get bad thinking they can call or write their representatives (too funny)

So soon if you ignore the above bullet points, you will be enjoying living in a corporate built and financed box where as I said above feed their processed food boxes.

It is my belief that we are quickly approaching a fracture of the global growing systems. Crop failures continue to add up, and you only have to look at the grocery store prices to realize this. In two years your life that you may have enjoyed the past years back will cease to exist and complete disappear.    

Food will = $$ and if you want to create value and food money in the coming years just start a garden. While food is not the ultimate solution, there are no other solutions unless there is food available.

Darn, again I could not sleep, and this is the result of that. Its 5:00 AM here in Central Texas, and I can hear that darn rooster crowing outside. It’s time to think about what is coming our way. Its not just you and that grumpy guy in Texas, but its the whole world.

It’s time to prepare.
It’s time to grow a garden
It’s time to join or start a community
Winter is coming and also those global corporations who are coming for you

See you next blog and here is wishing you the best of every thing for you and yours

Dennis

I eat a all plant diet and have for about a year. I am now 77 and have as much energy as I did when I was much younger. This book (PDF) is free. To get this Book HERE.

Hello from Central Texas. Below are MY IDEAS and not truth scratched out in granite!

Yes things are happening as in regards to the Coronavirus here in Texas. Cases in North, Central and South Texas. Is this a world ending event? The question to this is yes if your are selling fear and 20 year supplies of food. The answer is yes if you have gone absolutely crazy with fear. As in the book and movie DUNE, Fear is the mind killer.

I have friends in China, and yes there were some pretty rough times there, but things are returning to normal and people are returning to work. Were there huge economic and medical consequences of the virus? The answer is yes. People there got sick and died and some did not. Yes it is in the general population but less and less as times goes on. Trains and transportation are once again moving as all the car and truck traffic suggests and speaks volumes as to what is happening. Life is slowly returning to normal in China.

Because we live in the Nanny States of America “NSOA” I am not sure how all this will work out. The most at risk here in the US are the old, especially those who have severe medical problems which nursing homes are full of. The young not so much. Smokers especially are at risk. If your immune system is weak or impaired you are at risk for sure. Eating fast food all your life puts you at risk as well as most have no idea of their health quality. This virus normally does not kill the healthy. Again if you are suffering from some severe medical condition you need to keep away from people.

As a 76 year old grumpy grandfather, I am worried as well, and at the moment I am keeping out of crowds and away from people as best as I can. I fully suspect that I and my family will eventually become exposed to this virus. Probably every one on this earth will. But that is not the end of the world.

When it’s all over.

When it’s all over I may not make it through all this. Death is a certainty and a eventuality for all of us. If you first think this way and suppress the fear and prepare, then you can live your life with joy until your final breath. That’s how I try to live. If we go crazy and only think of our self’s then there will only be anarchy and darkness.

IF you have older fathers and mothers and grand parents, now is the time to look out for them. If possible, have them stay home and you take food and supply their needs as we get through this. (Yes decontaminate it first).

It will end and I think by the end of the summer it will all be over with and we will have to count the dead much like the wonderful Chinese people are doing at this very moment. But it will not be TEOTWAWKI “The end of the world as we know it” unless we make it that way. Don’t run into a wall of fear and don’t listen to all those fear merchants. Fear is the mind killer.

We have something headed our way that is even worse than this virus, and that is global cooling which will eventually destroy our ways of growing food. Look at this virus and the coming food growing problems as an opportunity to start living in a different way. Soon we will be looking at a new world as we cast off the shackles of oppression. Become a part of that.

Wishing you health and the best of everything from my little farm here in Central Texas

Dennis

I eat an all plant diet and have for about a year. I am now 77 and have as much energy as I did when I was much younger. This book (PDF) is free. To get this Book HERE.

I am not sure how to write this blog without sounding negative, but some times reality is just negative. This blog is actually a type of warning. It’s of course like every word in this blog as they are MY WORDS. So as a reader it is your choice to consider what I have to say is a bunch of bull or has some value in it. As a thinking human you have the ability to make choices. This is no different.

Things we may be facing in the coming weeks and months.

• A global pandemic
• Global shutdown of shipping (getting closer to that now)
• Global shutdown of air travel
• Financial Collapse (watch the stock market)
• Shutdown of global food distribution
• Global shutdown of manufacturing
• Global inability to travel or move or relocate
• Global shutdown of all borders (already happening)
• Global collapse of medical systems
• Global shutdown and collapse of _______ Fill in the blank.

if you are reading this blog, just plug in your countries name in the above bullet points where it says “Global”. And then there is this:

This global pandemic is just the icing on the cake for the Grand Solar Minimum. Personally I was hoping for a few more years before the inevitable collapse of food supplies made it’s final thrust into the global population. The pandemic looks like it will speed up and compound what will happen to food supplies.

The question is how do you even plant food during a pandemic? In the US this may be even harder by the fact that our bread basket states will suffer like last year or even worse by conditions that do not allow planting. If things here in the US eventually become “China Like”, then who will deliver the fuel, seeds and fertilizer to our farmers. From what I am hearing, crops are not being planted yet in places in China.

So what is the point of this blog? Well If you think I am crazy perhaps nothing to you. But for those who will listen it is time to prepare WHILE YOU STILL CAN”. Even if I am ABSOLUTELY a crazy old man, preparing would be advantageous just in the fact that you could still use what you prepared with.

The facts are:
We are looking at a global pandemic which could cycle around the globe a couple of times. Russia and some countries around Italy are closing their borders. The Grand Solar Minimum is happening (Length probably 35 years).
The earths magnetic fields are weakening and may flip. The sun is shutting down. Cold times are coming.

Personally I think this is the end of ages or something like the book “The Forth Turning”. We have polluted this planet badly. Our moral compass has been lost and we are getting to the point where everything is a commodity is almost over. It is time to clean the slate. All of the above may just do that. Personally I would like to see a new world emerge where people actually love each other. Obviously it’s not that way now.

I am personally shutting my life down and will only engage in things that will profit my family, friends and neighbors. I just oped out of e-commerce and shut everything down, as soon there will be little to actually sell in a store. I will keep this blog up until I can’t afford it (Yes it cost money) or my maker pulls me home!

One last comment on what I think is coming. Because we live in such a marshmallow wimpy country now where even our children can’t make decisions, tell time on a clock, tie their shoes, and we shield everyone from bad news, it will be really bad here. It will be really bad on our children, and shame on you for letting that happen if it applies to you. The US is no longer a country of pioneers but a collection of social media BS. Endlessly checking our cell phones and running into walls. How do you think we as a collective country will face anything that is bad and serious? God have mercy on us I pray.

Cheers

From Central Texas

Dennis

I eat an all plant diet and have for about a year. I am now 77 and have as much energy as I did when I was much younger. This book (PDF) is free. To get this Book go HERE.