In this Livestream from the backyard, I chat with special guest Kate Diprima, my friend and a dietician for over 30 years, about affordable Christmas gift ideas you can give from your garden and other unique gardening gifts you can buy online that your friends and family members will love and enjoy!
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G'day Everyone, thanks for your patience and support! I promise to work hard to improve my equipment and technical skills in live streaming outdoors. I like the live aspect and live chat about this type of content, so stick with us, and next year, we can bring you a better live experience. Please leave your comments below as you watch the replay, and Kate or I will do our best to answer them. Lastly, the best Xmas gifts are the thoughtful ones (not necessarily the most expensive), so give a plant, seeds, or preserved food or a box of fresh produce you selected from your garden, and the receiver will love it! Merry Xmas! Cheers 🙂
Or maybe you'll…grow…on them…lol. Thank you for the ideas, very nice.
Once it gets in a landfill it will get too toxified to come out. At least in the US indutrial waste is in there and once in there is NO coming out.
Thank you. Do not melt now.
Wonderful, would love a recipe book from you one day.❤
Second year growing sweet potatoes here in deep south Mississippi, and our harvest in late October was 50lbs from just a 4×6 raised bed! They were absolutely delicious made into pies and casserole for our Thanksgiving celebrations. I hope everyone is happy and full tonight, thank you for the upload! ❤
Hey Mark can you send the rain to Eastern Victoria Gippsland no rain here Heath
No prong tool?
If anyone is looking for a cheap way to dehydrate, I’ve used a cheap airfryer that is from a well known Aussie change store (starts with K & the AF has a rotisserie) that has a a dehydration setting too. Works well, and by rotating the trays you can fit quite a lot in it. Better than having the main oven on for hours in summer imo.
I've had little to no problem with the volume I heard everything was said
Happy Thanksgiving from Las Vegas!
Is that the crickets chirping or my ears ringing?
If you saw the hail coming down at Mullumbimby Marty’s the other day , forget the umbrella get hard hats.
Decent
Thank you Mark and Kate for excellent suggestions
Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you both and your families
Cheers
Mary
would like to see Seed starting tips sowing at the beginning of the year video maybe. Mark?
So sorry you had to go through that weather! I did learn from it! You both were BRAVE people. You did a good job anyway!
Truly love the effort but the collaboration, probably doesn't suite your chan… to much wish wash with info…lovey dovey is a little over her head… honestly not trying to be mean just stating my thoughts..
😮💨 The quality – video and audio is below par. I don't watch videos like this. Info is good if you can tolerate poor quality vids.
Hearing you just fine 🙂
To give some insight on your question Mark as to why things (like dill) retain their flavor with freeze drying, but not with dehydrating (same with nutrient retention):
Freeze drying uses a process called sublimation to desiccate the food, whereas dehydrators use the process of evaporation.
Sublimation converts a solid (the frozen water in this case) directly into a gas without going through a liquid state (think dry ice), whereas evaporation does go through a liquid state or starts in liquid state. The sublimation process is achieved via freezing temperatures combined with a powerful vacuum, and the racks of freeze driers heat up in this cold vacuumed environment to speed up the sublimation process, basically making the molecules vibrate faster in a sense.
The benefit of the sublimation process is that only the h2o is gassed off, leaving the nutrients and flavors in tact/unaltered without cooking the food.
This differs from the evaporation process, where the liquid water "traps" water-soluble nutrients resulting in some nutrient loss. The dehydration process also "cooks" the food to varying degrees, which will also result in flavor changes and nutrient losses, vit C being the most substantial loss.
In general, nutrient retention in freeze-dried foods tends to be around 95-97% with full flavor retention, where dehydrating tends to be around 60-75% retention with flavor alterations.
I hope this simplified breakdown helps with understanding 😁
Thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk 😜
well done Mate! sounded like chicadas or locusts!!!
It's decent and yes we can I can hear you loud and clear
Love your work I would love to buy some of your honey I’m local
How would pineapple and bananas go in an area like sydney where the winters can get quite cold. Are they suited for that climate or more the tropical?
Send some of that rain my way in like July without a tornado. Or frost. I was like "wait what you can grow a banana tree???". Serious question. I saw this on maybe nature of things or something. Would you eat a tomato that grew wild in a landfill (aka nuisance grounds)?
Mark: Let's do a live show in the garden!
The weather: Like hell you will!
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All joking aside, great ideas! Glad you powered through.