Green Thumb - 6
Green Thumb - 6
Transcript
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00:02 Hopefully our Green Thumb Tuesday segment
00:07 may have inspired you to dig into
00:09 your own gardening adventure,
00:10 but you're probably wondering where to start.
00:13 Well, Green Thumbs Gardens got you covered.
00:16 - We design and store and maintain kitchen gardens,
00:20 food production systems in any space.
00:22 So when we say any space,
00:23 we mean that anyone anywhere can grow their own food.
00:28 - For the last five years, 27 year old Jamil Philip
00:31 has been nurturing his business
00:33 that provides infrastructure for citizens to be healthier.
00:37 - You tell us what space you have,
00:39 if you have any space, if you wanna do it in ground,
00:42 if you wanna do a hydroponic system,
00:44 if you wanna do an aquaponic system.
00:46 And then from there we do a site visit.
00:49 We come to your area, look at it,
00:53 see how the sunlight levels are in that particular spot.
00:57 You might wanna do or we check the soil.
01:00 And from there we do all the work around it
01:04 from start to finish.
01:06 And if you want us to maintain it as well,
01:08 we can or we guide you on how to maintain it.
01:11 - The university graduate says
01:13 while many are now leaning towards home gardens
01:16 as a strategy to enhance household food security,
01:19 they often run into simple hurdles,
01:22 unable to cross because of a lack of knowledge.
01:25 - The only time I was interested in agriculture
01:27 was when I was at UE, which was at the university level.
01:31 So there was primary school, secondary school
01:33 where there was a big gap that I wasn't able
01:37 to even experiment in that field
01:40 to see if I would like that.
01:41 A lot of us know that we do,
01:44 you put a red bean on a napkin and you wet it.
01:47 But where do we go from there?
01:48 There's no follow up after that.
01:50 I think that's where we get lost.
01:52 - And you won't believe
01:54 what is the most common blunder made.
01:56 - A lot of persons, they either forget to water their plants
01:59 or they don't water it enough.
02:02 And that is the biggest mistake I see
02:05 with a lot of the gardens we do.
02:06 And that's why I recommend persons
02:08 have some sort of irrigation system.
02:11 - Studies also suggest food items from home gardens
02:14 add substantially to the family energy
02:16 and nutrition requirements on a continuous basis.
02:20 It is why the young farmer is driven
02:22 to provide easy daily access
02:24 to an assortment of fresh and nutritious food.
02:27 Jesse Ramdeo, CNC3 News.
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