This Zero Waste, Organic, Regenerative Farm is Changing Agriculture!

Alright, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com, today we have another exciting episode for you. I'm here in Homestead, Florida, and we're here at Lion Fruit Farms, you can check them out at lionfarms.com. This is not only a wildlife habitat, this is an organic regenerative farm with zero waste because they're not sending things to the landfill, they're using everything they grow on farm to either feed chickens, feed worms, feed rabbits, or feed some other kind of creature, the soil microbes, to grow some amazing food here, and more importantly, do a lot of studies from FIU students and other university students in the area so that actually they can improve the redlands agriculture here in South Florida and learn better alternative organic methods instead of using chemicals. In addition, while they have five acres on this side of mostly long ons with chickens and microgreens growing, which I've checked it all out, including some small amounts of vegetable gardening, the other side of the street has ten acres of like, it was just started I think about maybe four or five years ago, where they actually have an amazing worm farm that we'll be showing you guys, as well as they're growing mushrooms, climate controlled here in South Florida. For some reason when I think mushrooms, I don't think South Florida humid, but they're actually doing it here, and it is quite an impressive facility that I'll show you guys in a little bit. So anyways, let's head into Lion Farm. Alright guys, so when you first come in the farm, the main path will kind of take you to this little geodesic dome that has some open sides, and it basically has like a seating in there, and they do educational events here. Actually today is Wednesday when I showed up, and there are some school kids in here getting shown on a tour of the farm from the inner city, and they're teaching them where food grows, they're talking about worm castings, and the fish here, and actually let's talk about the fish next. This is where they actually do their aquaponics, well they have a few places they do aquaponics, but this is the main area where they do the aquaponics. So honestly guys, this is one of the nicest aquaponics setups I've seen. I mean look at this, these fish have it really good, they got like a kind of waterfall over there in the background, there's some pots over there that are growing some different plants, and they even have over on this side, you probably can't see it, let me move the camera over, over on this side they actually have a raft that's floating, and this is actually a FIU student that's doing a water remediation study that they're testing different plants and how it can basically clean the water, which is quite interesting of course. is how this is used aquaponically, basically they let the fish poop in here, and then they basically have pumps behind, hidden over there, that then will suck the water out of this, and then they use it to water a part of their farm, including some peppers, as well as fruit trees and trees in a certain zone of the farm, including the mountain sour sap, that can be anti-cancer. So yeah, they not only have fish that they harvest, but also they now use that water to then feed the trees. So next up, let's show you guys some more areas of this amazing farm. Alright guys, check it out man, this is just one amazing farm, look at this, look how beautiful this is, it's like the bananas on both sides, they got like an old school avocado that's like way too tall to be harvested, fruit hanging down, I guess on the back of the farm they're actually cutting down some of the avocados, and then they're grafting on new varieties, so the goal is to have avocados all year long, and they have over three to four hundred different kinds of fruits and vegetables growing on this farm. This farm not only is zero waste, but it's also very diverse, right, a more diverse farm creates more resilience, so you will succeed, and yeah, maybe one or two of your trees may get some kind of disease, but then you have so many others that are going to thrive, you know, so like gardening and farming, to me is just a numbers game, and so they are setting themselves up to success, because in the future, they'll have like, their goal is to have a thousand different varieties of fruits and vegetables and stuff growing on this very farm, and aside from just the amazing stuff they're growing, they're also, you know, working with FIU and sponsoring many students to do projects here on the farm. So I want to show you guys another one that I'm really excited about, and I just missed the student doing this project, so I was not able to interview her today, but if you guys want to see the video I made with the professor doing a study on cover crops, make sure you click the subscribe button down below, I also have another video coming out where I interviewed a doctoral student who did several studies on the benefits of worm casting tea and how beneficial it can be, that'll come out real soon, so click the subscribe button so you don't miss that episode either, which is definitely something you will want to watch. Anyways, let's check out what the student here is investigating. Alright, so what they're doing on this area of the farm is that a FIU student is using this, which is basically a high plains biochar, boulder biochar barrel to make biochar with different woods, like scrap woods, like here's a piece of wood that probably made into biochar really soon because it's just sitting right down below, but they're turning it into biochar, which is a great additive to organic soil to improve the carbon holding capacity, and so while they are using traditional woods, they are experimenting using different temperatures to turn something else they produce on the farm that you guys haven't seen yet, they're turning these guys, which basically is the spent mushroom blocks, which is basically this into biochar too, so not only do they feed these to the worms, but because they produce so much of this, once again they're doing zero waste, some mushroom farms really just throw this stuff away, this is great for composting, great for vermicasting, and as they're learning here, it's probably going to be great for making biochar too, so the goal is they make biochar in the biochar kiln here, then the next thing is behind in the way they basically have a test plot where they're testing all the different biochars probably at different percentage levels and finding out which one is going to perform the best, and once the study is done, they're going to publish the results so that all the different farmers and even gardeners in the area can benefit from the test that they're doing here at Lion Farm, so I'm so glad that they're allowing students to come in to help make agriculture great again here in America, in South Florida. Alright guys, so another part of this farm to make it zero waste is because they have a lot of literally chop and drop, whether they let it chop and drop on the ground and then basically compost in place and prevent weeds from growing, and then enriching the fertility of the soil, some of that chop and drop actually goes here to feed the rabbits, these are New Zealander rabbits, and these rabbits will once again turn green material into poop, and then the poop actually they have a special setup where they separate the urine from the poop of the rabbit poop, and then that rabbit poop is then used for the propagation of earthworms. They found when they feed the earthworms the rabbit poop plus the spent mushroom blocks, the earthworms go crazy and they multiply like crazy, so they have so many different earthworms now to create the earthworm castings, which actually is their intended product, so then they can make casting tea and send that out through all areas of the farm that we'll show you guys in a minute, as well as sell earthworm castings to other local farms and gardeners in the area so that they can increase their organic matter and grow more yield and have healthier plants that are even pest resistant, as proven by published studies. Once again, for that episode, make sure you click the subscribe button because it's coming up probably next. Alright guys, so you guys can see behind me, it's basically like a barn structure with open sides. If they didn't have all the worm casting tables in there, basically it'd be a great place to have a party, but basically they got like eight different 4 foot by 32 foot or 4 foot by 24 foot worm bins where they're keeping, I would say personally, millions of worms in there. They have lots of worms, they're so densely packed in there, and their specific goal is to make earthworm castings and casting tea from the earthworms, right. Some places that grow earthworms, basically grow earthworms for bait shops and then the castings are kind of their waste product, which is not necessarily the highest quality soil amendment for organic gardeners, right. They've taken that into consideration here and they're basically doing this for a high quality casting product that can then also be turned into vermicompost tea that will get proven, published scientific results. So yeah, let's check out the worms real quick, share with you guys how they're growing the worms and what they're doing with the castings. Alright guys, so you guys can see this bin, it's super long, it's like 32 feet, 4 feet wide. Basically on top they have misters so it comes on every once in a while, and if you just scrape this aside, there's like tons of earthworms right in there that I'm seeing. I'm going to cover them back up, don't want to disturb them. They basically grind up produce waste and some yard scraps from the farm here, as well as get produce deliveries from some of the local supermarkets and wholesaler produce fruit sellers in the area, and they basically grind that up, I think it's into like one inch pieces, including the cardboard boxes, which is really good carbon for the worms, and then they basically feed the worms once that is broken down, that's very important. They compost that material first for I think several months to get to a high temperature so it deactivates seeds, also makes it a more sterile product instead of putting potential pathogens in their worm bin, that then the castings get used on for food production. So let me go ahead and show you guys the result of harvesting one of these bins, as well as the more important thing than just the castings, they actually make a casting tea, you may be able to hear it running in the background. Alright guys, so this is all the worm castings, they basically harvested one of those big beds, and they have a ton of worm castings that not only will they sell to local gardeners at farmer's markets, but also if you're a farm here, you could buy it by the pound, I think they sell it for like a dollar a pound, this is a really nice rich and black casting. They found out that when you add the spent mushroom blocks, which are of course full of carbon, and feed the worms that, the castings get more dark due to a higher carbon content. Now while castings are definitely good, it can definitely get expensive buying a lot of castings. The other thing is that I think they're very smart at this farm, because while they have a lot of old school fruit trees, they're just starting to plant out some new crops and whatnot, but they realized that the soil, we need to improve the soil, how can we improve the soil? They could make their own compost, which they also do, but they decided they were going to make castings because they know that castings will add a lot more soil fertility faster to their existing soil than probably any other method you could do. That's why they invested in a lot of portions of their farm to have the worms, to break down the compost, to make the castings, to re-enrich the soil here on property over their 15 acres. I think every plant probably gets some earthworm castings at some point. That being said, what they do even more than just the castings is they make casting tea, or I would call compost tea, which is brewing next door, you may be hearing it, so let me share with you guys that real quick. Alright guys, so even more important than the earthworm castings is the casting tea they make. Each cycle runs 24 hours, and after 12 hours they basically take out the bag that's hanging in there and they replace it and they put in new vermicompost, so they basically run it 12 hours, change it out, run it another 12 hours. This way they find they have the best bacterial growth, right, and while you can hire the farm line farms to come out to your property and spray the compost tea, they have it set up here so they don't even have to do that. They have it set up so you can press a couple of valves over there that then will divert this compost tea that will inject it into the irrigation system for the whole entire farm. They can send this compost tea to one of any, I think, six zones at present time on the farm and just basically just irrigate all the different areas of the farm with just a few turns of the hose. This has to be the smartest, most intelligent worm casting tea delivery system I've ever seen. I want to be inspired to have something like this at my farm where I can just brew casting tea, 1,000 gallons, turn a little couple knobs, and then it basically just goes everywhere and re-enriches my soil, so that is totally badass I think, man, because they have a lot of infrastructure to make it happen. Of course, you know I have videos with Seth and Super Seth, and basically he just injects the compost when he's hand-watering, but this one is set up to be done fully automatically. I want to encourage you guys to use worm casting tea. If I learned anything at this farm today, it's that casting tea has a lot more benefits than I was even aware of, and I want you guys to start making your own worm casting tea. Once again, subscribe down below for the video I will have on published studies on the benefits of casting tea, and even interview the PhD doctoral candidate from FIU regarding the studies she made here on the farm with these very castings that have proven scientific results. Alright guys, so what we're looking at here in the worm casting area where they have all the beds for worm casting, they also have another aquaponics set up, which actually I saw kids at earlier. They were showing the kids the fish and the aquaponics where they basically bring up the water to feed the plants in the top beds. Looks like they got some mint, some kale, some basil, and some hemp up there. This farm does have a license to do testing with industrial hemp for research purposes only. So I think that is great that they're also doing research on hemp, the best varieties, the best ways to basically prune it, and all these other things. So yeah, so this farm, like in every nook and cranny man, there's something cool and interesting to look at. I think the next thing cool and interesting is the building behind me where they actually grow mushrooms. So let's check that out next. Alright guys, so next we're going to take in this big building behind us, and this building actually was built to grow microgreens in there, but then they found like, man, so many people grow microgreens. You can grow microgreens out of your house and stuff. People do that all the time. And then they wanted to like, hey, how can we repurpose this building to grow in something better, right? So then they decided to grow mushrooms, which pretty much grows in a similar climate or climate control as the microgreens and commands a lot higher price per pound. Also you yield a lot more, so they weigh a lot more than the microgreens, which like literally you're weighing in ounces, whereas mushrooms grow per pound, and mushrooms could also be used as a value-added product to make tinctures and to make powders and to dehydrate and sell dried mushrooms and all these things. So let's check out and see how they're growing some mushrooms here in South Florida. Alright guys, so we're going to head into where the mushrooms are growing. This is a restricted area. Stop! Do not enter! They basically got to keep this clean, right? They don't want outside environmental like bacteria and stuff growing because bacteria and mushrooms are like enemies. So you got to like walk through this thing with water and bleach to like make sure you're not, you know, contracting, bringing contaminants to the mushroom growth. So let's check it out. Alright guys, so we're inside. As you guys can see, this setup was basically all on rollers, so they could like move them side to side, so it's safe space. They also have like four different like humidity meters hooked up to like one main sensor thing that they could monitor. They basically, if it's like, they measure the amount of CO2 in here, and if it's too much, like fans kick on, you get a negative pressure, and then it basically kicks it out. This is all high-tech in here. Like the barb's not so high-tech, but inside here is high-tech, which is quite impressive. This is set up to like grow micro-greens, right, on these big trays, and to me it seems like a waste. They're not growing micro-greens. You know, I do see that they have lots of basically mushroom blocks that they just harvested, and here's one they haven't harvested yet. You guys can see here's some black trumpet mushrooms here, but the favorite kind of mushroom that actually they grow really well is at the end. So let me show you guys that one, because that's the one I want you guys to eat on a regular basis. It has proven health benefits. Alright guys, so here's a mushroom they really focus on that grows well here. They're probably going to enhance the amount that they're growing, because they're going to start getting into potentially frost sickness and tinctures or something else. But this is a lion's mane mushroom, guys. Like lion's mane, I don't know if you guys know, but you know, you can maybe go to the store and get standard button mushrooms or cremini mushrooms or maybe even the oyster mushrooms or shiitake, which are pretty common. But it's very uncommon to see the lion's mane mushrooms, which are actually good for your brain. I had some today at lunch because we had microgreens and mushrooms. That's what I had for lunch here, courtesy of the farm. It was delicious, absolutely. So I could definitely vouch for the food here. They grow amazing microgreens and mushrooms. I want to show you guys one more mushroom that is thriving right now in this big grove right here. Alright guys, so here we got some, I think it's blue oyster mushrooms. And you know, once again guys, like I know a lot of you guys hopefully are growing a garden and eating your own greens, because they're so important. And greens are so nutritious. But you know, I want to give out a shout out to mushrooms. Mushrooms are a food I believe you guys should be eating every single day. Even if it's just a few ounces, it can make a huge difference. It has chitin that can help feed our microbiome. And there's a lot of different compounds in mushrooms that are actually anti-aging for us. Like I think it's ergothionein, best to cook your mushrooms before eating them. Generally, I like to steam my mushrooms personally. But yeah, mushrooms are a superfood. And if you have a microgreens business already that's not doing well, guess what? You can convert that to mushrooms. I think the biggest part of growing mushrooms, that's the hardest, is to basically getting the sterilized blocks and then inoculating it so that actually you get the mushrooms you want instead of creating a lot of who knows what. Alright guys, so now I'm in a cooler with actually all the harvested mushrooms that you guys can see. And basically trays and trays of really nice mushrooms. These are destined to go out to local restaurants here in South Florida. Look at this, not lying to you guys, it looks absolutely beautiful. Some of the best Lion's Mane that I've ever seen. A lot of Lion's Mane I see is like all kind of getting old and kind of weird, but this is like super fresh. Probably going to go out tomorrow. Now besides the Lion's Mane they have in here, they also have all these mushroom blocks, right? So these blocks are basically waiting until they all turn white. And once they all turn white, then they go into the grow room that you guys just saw me in. And then each one of these blocks here will produce about four pounds of mushrooms. Basically two pounds is the first flush. They cut it back, then they let it grow one more time, it's another two pounds. And then they have actually all this spent mushroom compost or the blocks, which then as you guys saw, they feed to the worms. They also feed to the biochar kiln to make the biochar. So once again, this is a zero waste farm. And as you guys can see, they have just tons and tons of plots in here that are going to be making lots and lots of mushrooms. Alright guys, so I just wanted to show you this area of the garden. They literally just planted this very recently. Here's an avocado that they basically, it was an old school tree, super tall. It would shade out this whole area. So they basically cut it down and then now they're grafting on new varieties of the avocado. But then behind me, they're basically using the bamboo from on site and they're planting the purple ube. The purple ube is basically like a tuberous crop you eat, kind of think of it like, but way different than a purple sweet potato because they're also purple, but basically they're like less sweet than a sweet potato. But they're super nutritious, rich in anthocyanins that kind of take a little bit longer to grow than a sweet potato. You know, once again, this is a specialty crop. So once again, you know, I think that specialty crops are really where it's at. Why compete with somebody growing mangoes when there's millions of people growing mangoes here in South Florida where there's like so many less people growing the ube, you know. And also, of course, the ube has the purple anthocyanins. It's super nutritious and it's a food that's definitely on my radar and I would encourage you guys to grow it if you live somewhere tropical where you can grow the ube, which is well known in the Philippines. Alright guys, what we're looking at next is five acres of food forest. Basically they have them planted in rows and there are some like old school trees that basically once again got cut down, mostly avocados with some other ones mixed in there that they're grafting. So they get to have avocados all year long that stay short, right, because they have these huge trees that when avocados get so tall it's very difficult to harvest them. So in this area they have a local professor doing a study on cover crops. On this side they have cow peas. Over on this side they have kind of sorghum here that is not supposed to go to seed but it did. And then basically they're seeing what could suppress the weeds the most, what's going to give the most biomass, what's going to add the most soil fertility. So if you guys want to learn more about the cover crop study they're doing here, I actually was able to interview the professor who's doing that study here and share with you guys which cover crop performed the best here in South Florida. So once again, click that subscribe button right down below because it's going to be coming up in a future episode. Alright guys, so before it gets too dark I want to show you guys this area of the farm here. It's like at the North 40, really there's a fence right there. And this is part of the same area that they did like the cover crop test but it's the very other end, right. And what they're growing here is a lot of different things. They got like turmeric growing. They grew 10,000 pounds of turmeric last year on this farm. They also got a lot of sweet potatoes growing mixed in. And then they got this elephant yam that I never even knew about before. It's from India. So I want to give you guys a close up on this plant because the plant stays pretty small and compact. And some of the yams that it grows can get up to like 20 pounds for like one plant which is insane. And then to propagate it, you just cut it up into pieces and you can plant all the pieces. And then more come up. So it's like super cool. I definitely want to learn about it more because it's a beautiful plant in my opinion. Let's show you guys what a good one looks like. Alright guys so here's a nice elephant yam. I think it's like naturally variegated here. Looks pretty cool. And they stay pretty small and compact. They like a little bit of shade. They don't like full sun. Nice green leaves. Like to me this looks quite ornamental. It's not like getting all rowdy and crazy. They planted some sweet potatoes down below it. But yeah, this one's definitely one I'm going to look into more and then I'm going to grow in the future on my farm in Puerto Rico. Should really do well. Alright guys so the last shot I'll give you guys today of the farm is basically like this is the other side of the row. And they got once again the elephant yam, the turmeric, and they got the fruit trees. These used to be big and they basically had fruit trees I think 25 feet spacing on them. They cut them back and they grafted new varieties. And otherwise this is pretty empty now because once again these fruit trees were huge. So they're going to make a centropic food forest in this area and grow all different kinds of little baby bananas mixed in with other food crops and fruit trees all along here. So you know this farm is always evolving and changing with the times to become better. And so I love that about Peter who is really making this farm happen. So I think we might get a few words from him if he's not too camera shy at the end of this video where he can tell you guys more about the Lion's Farms and I had the pleasure of touring you guys around today. Alright guys so now I have the pleasure of interviewing Peter, the founder of Lion Farms here in Homestead, Florida. So the first question I have for you Peter is why did you start a farm? Because I know you're in the construction industry doing all kinds of crazy projects probably all over the world with concrete which you have some amazing concrete buildings, some of the best that I've seen like I guess they're like hurricane and tornado proof even. But why did you start a farm? Well good question and John thanks for visiting with us today, really appreciate it. My father was a farmer in Italy and I always wanted to retire as a farmer and I wanted to be an organic farmer because essentially the farm was to feed my friends and my family and so we would eat healthy. And so I had the pleasure of owning a five acre farm across the street and this farm is 10 acres of a 40 acre farm that was always organic, been organic for a hundred years and so when we started this farm we were very committed to keep it organic and we've made our commitment. So we're basically essentially a zero waste, regenerative, organic farm. We're now experimenting with centropic food forestry and we're raising worms for their worm castings which is basically the essential part of feeding the entire farm. Wow great so was the worm castings one of the first things you did when you saw that maybe the fertility of the farm here could be better and improved? Well when we started the farm and committed to be organic I started looking into organic fertilizers. I wasn't that convinced of too many organic fertilizers that would benefit our farm and so I wanted to find something that would actually benefit our biodiversity and we essentially decided on worm casting because that really essentially really feeds the biodiversity and as a regenerative farmer we're just farming microbes so and worms make great microbes. Wonderful so another part of this farm that I haven't really seen at other places Peter was that you have a lot of students or even professors come in and do like studies on your farm to learn how to literally farm better for you and also for the local community. So what in you motivates you to allow students and even sponsor them to come in and provide resources so that they could actually do some of their studies at your farm? Well that's a very good question. In my previous career I was in conductive concrete and we have several patents in concrete. I worked at the University of Nebraska and I was privileged to see their university in studying agriculture. So when we started this farm I decided that I wanted to contribute to the local community here and local education and sponsor students on organic farming and I think it's really important that we support the next generation of farmers. So we decided that it would be really good for the community and good for us to be able to not only understand what we're doing here at the farm but actually be able to understand it scientifically. Yeah I mean I would think I say that's like very important to support upcoming farmers because you know as you know there's statistics out that say farmers are aging out and then farmland unfortunately even here in Homestead are getting sold to big developers that are basically buying the farms and then putting on houses which is terrible. We need to remain strong as a country and have farms and grow our own food and not freaking import it from everywhere right. So I think it's great work that you're doing to allow students to get them excited because the people that I interviewed today you know that you'll see in an upcoming episode you know are really excited and passionate about what they're doing whether it's you know I've met a hemp farmer that was growing some hemp trials here or I met the girl that does the worm castings and I met the professor that is doing the cover crops and I just missed the student that's actually doing the biochar right. So he has students coming in and out doing their own thing. I think that's just totally amazing. So Peter tell me like this farm to me is amazing. I've seen you put a lot of infrastructure into it especially this you know big building me and you know are you profitable as a farm or do you do this farm for other reasons than just making money. Well unfortunately we're still a non-profit organization and I think we'll be like that for a while and it's not all about the money. It's about sustaining our environment, feeding my friends and family healthy food and we're very blessed to be working with a lot of really smart dedicated students who are the next generation of farmers. So hopefully one day the farm will make a few dollars but not at the moment but it's not what it's all about. Awesome I think you know I think in our society today unfortunately so many things are driven by money right and I think it's very important to you know have other goals and ideals and values besides just money right. Money comes and goes but you know what Peter is doing here is creating a better community, more resilience, creating a better biodiversity of all the different crops he's grown here, creating an educational resource center for people in this area that want to learn about growing organically, regeneratively with no waste by incorporating different kinds of animals, different kinds of growing systems and growing a diversity of food. So literally my hats off to you for all the amazing work you're doing here. I respect you highly for you know sinking in a lot of money to make this farm happen especially all your employees that I've seen you know working here today. I know it ain't cheap for you to do this and you know I think it's just amazing everything you're doing and also of course providing amazing food, high quality, some of the highest quality food I've seen here in South Florida grown regeneratively you know with the worm castings. You know I don't see a lot of farms investing in worm castings you know to me I see this as your base. The worm castings is the base and that literally spreads fertility out to this farm to make this farm more nutritious and a better organic farm than other farms that are just basically bringing in bagged organic fertilizer which is not sustainable whereas once again you're being way more sustainable in the practices and also backing it up with the research that the FIU students do here to prove what you're doing. So yeah so if somebody wants to learn more about the farm and maybe even come out for a tour or find out about the educational programs or even maybe buy some produce from you or mushrooms how can they do that? Well you can go on to our website it's lionfarms.com we also have a Instagram and Facebook but basically everything you want to know about Lion Farm you can find on our web. Alright yeah I'll put the links down below and then what farmers markets do you currently sell your products at? I talked about selling your worm castings and mushrooms at local farmers markets. We're selling it at several local farmers markets in Pinecrest, Glazers, Farmers Market, Robertson's here and we're selling to local restaurants as well. Alright wonderful yeah so links to all of Peter's information and website, Instagram, Facebook down below and check them out at lionfarms.com if you want to learn more. So Peter any final words of wisdom you'd like to share with all my viewers out today before we sign off? Well I just you know thank John for visiting us today and I have an incredible staff and we were associated with a great two universities FIU and University of Florida and I'm continuing learning every day how to be an organic farmer so life's good. And it's never too late to learn how to be an organic farmer look at this Peter is still doing it today alright. So if you guys enjoyed this episode at Lion Farms please be sure to give it a big thumbs up more importantly share this with other people to inspire them about what you can do here in South Florida in Homestead Florida growing amazing fruit, vegetables, worms and even mushrooms and I didn't even get to show you guys the microgreens that's grown here on site by Lou another amazing farmer here. Also be sure to click that subscribe button right down below so you don't miss my new and upcoming episodes. I've come here every five to seven days you never know what you're up to, what you'll be learning on my YouTube channel. Make sure you click the little bell to get notified as many videos come out I have several videos coming out still that I filmed here at Lion Farms with some of the students and professor that are doing some of the studies so you guys could benefit from their vast amount of knowledge. Also be sure to check my past episodes, past episodes are wealth of knowledge over 13 episodes at this time on this channel dedicated to you guys all about how to grow your own organic food at home. So with that my name is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com we'll see you next time and until then remember keep on growing.