$900 for dandelions - sell your weeds!
http://www.permies.com Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, famous permaculture instructor and wildcrafter, talks about the street value of dandelions and polyculture. He calls this 0.85 acre plot "edible acres" or "Okanagan Biodiversity Farm". He grows about a hundred different crops on this plot as a market garden including raspberries, elecampane, and ... weeds like dandelions! So he let the dandelions go all season, and then he harvests them in the fall and sells them! During the growing season, the dandelions feed the surrounding plants. Skeeter explains that plants like dandelions are solar collectors and pump half of their collected energy into the soil to feed the web of life which then fertilizes other plants. Weeds also help to keep the soil from getting compacted. Taprooted weeds (dandelions have a wonderful tap root) can also bring nutrients up from deep soils. Skeeter did pull a few weeds to get rid of: wild lettuce, wild verbena, wild grasses and wild potentilla. Skeeter says there are four kinds of weeds in the garden: 1) real weeds that he doesn't like 2) weeds he makes money on 3) crops that have spread 4) native plants Other weeds he likes to encourage includes lambs quarters, red root and malva neglecta. Skeeter explains how he likes taprooted weeds, like dandelion, that don't spread with rhizomes. He points out that he does not like quack grass. this episode is dedicated to reddit users "chances" and "puredemo" who siad some nice things which got me motivated to make a new video all errors are by paul wheaton music by Jimmy Pardo
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This guy is so knowledgeable about every plant growing under his feet. Where can I learn about native perennial plants and their uses???
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fuck weeds
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I was hoping you would show me what those weeds look like but you just pulled the up and threw them down without taking the time to carefully show the camera what they look like--what a waste of a good opportunity to educate someone like me.
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do you ever harvest poke weed and fix poke sallet?
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This guy is awesome
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This is like the best lifehack ever.
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plants herbs what you call weeds are edible and healthly for us.
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You are a great teacher, Michael--such a wealth of knowledge that I had to watch this video twice. thank you!
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Couldn't watch - not much on watching and LISTENING to people eat.
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thank you very informative.
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I make dandelion jam! it is so good, taste like sweet tea!
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The weed I sell is $360.00 per ounce.
So, I make around $115,200.00 a week just from that. -
For those of you that laugh about dandelions and other weeds let me tell you something, doctors have not been able to help me in my rare hormone imbalance in my endocrine system, it was like, live with your tiredness no drive and other nasty problems, we can't find out what it is and they don't make a medicine for people like you. So I educated myself from watching people like Michael and for the last few weeks after eating the so called weeds that some of you laugh about I started getting more strength and a little more drive and i am starting to feel much better. To think that all the doctors and tests I have gone trough did not help me and just simple better nutrition did !! Now who is laughing about dandelions ?
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who buys those lol
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growing weed 8 )
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