The Hippy Gourmet TV Show takes viewers around the globe to explore local, sustainable and healthy cuisines and teaches how you can prepare these delicious dishes in your own home.
In this segment from Organic Living TV we sit down with Greg McManus from the Napa Valley Wine train to learn about it's history and sustainability model for Napa Valley and beyond! The Napa Valley Wine Train represents pure romance in a most approachable fashion, giving a truly European experience in gourmet food, wine and travel across the vineyards of Napa Valley, California.
"Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said rich nations must abandon their "unsustainable lifestyle" to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels."
We are so blessed to be able to discover some of the true gems around our world, where the cultivation of organic ingredients are harvested by local communities - feeding families and grounding their joy in pure sustainability.
In this visit to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, we meet the Ehrlich family at Alderlea Farm:
Katy Ehrlich takes us on a tour of how their small family farm feeds over 75 families in their local CSA (community supported agriculture) program. Then we meet up with John Ehrlich who uncovers some of the mysteries of bio-dynamic farming practices, as he digs up some buried treasure (cow horns filled with finely aged manure) in their fields.
Being on the farm means getting up early, and for this segment we were up at 4:30am filming John preparing the summer bio-dynamic stir. After an hour or so of hand mixing three gallons of water and mystical cow-horn silica powder together, swirling the water in one directional vortex to another...we were ready to hit the lush fields with this water mister.
The fascinating parts to bio-dynamics is that the air around the plants gets sprayed, versus the soil itself. But all mysticism aside, bio-dynamics does statistically work in producing higher yielding, better tasting fruits and vegetables!
Just goes to show how much there is to learn each and every day about where our food comes from, and how those who love the land and tend to it with care and passion, end up spreading this love to everyone who eats this produce!
