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Back in 2017, I was in bad shape personally and financially. I had come a long way in terms of detoxing myself, transitioning to eating more healthily, and I had stopped taking Adderall for my prior symptoms of brain fog, cognitive impairment and exhaustion. I was feeling the power of cleaning the body out, regenerating my nervous system and the body’s own self-healing process.
However, I was still recovering from being disrupted in my career and personal life which were a mess after years being plagued with health problems. After college I was working as a writer for an investigation company in California that later closed down after being entangled in a vicious lawsuit, and at that time I was in a deep state of bad health and dysfunction. In 2015 I moved back to Texas, my home state, and was bouncing back and forth between different jobs. During this time I racked up a load of debt, moved into a house with two other sketchy individuals, and got a job that I absolutely hated.
The job paid lousy and now with my health being on the up-and-up, I was desperate to get in a better situation financially. I walked into a local sandwich shop to apply for a second job as a delivery driver. A man was sitting in there having lunch and summoned me over. He said, “Son, are you looking for work? I could use some help. I have a little farm southwest of town.”
So I went to work for Mark the Farmer on the weekends. He had five giant greenhouses and grew herbs that he sold to grocery stores which they resold as part of their potted plant selections. We grew everything from mint, oregano, basil, epazote, rosemary, thyme, sage, tarragon, marjoram — among many other herbs. It was there that I really learned my chops in terms of gardening and how to give plants the ingredients they need to proliferate.
The biggest thing I learned was — it’s easy! Do not be intimidated in this subject area. I learned that certain herbs in particular are among the heartiest plants to grow and will do well even in adverse conditions. So an important takeaway for you is — grow plants which are hearty and tough and can survive even if you forget to nurture them as much as you should. Many people get overwhelmed by and fail with gardening because they try and grow plants which are too delicate and high-maintenance. I also became somewhat of an expert on container gardening, which was the type we were doing mostly in greenhouses. This approach is applicable to other homes or more urban settings where access to abundant land is not always possible.
I also came across an amazing discovery at this time. I learned the powerful effect that happens whenever you eat a plant which is literally picked minutes before you put it into your mouth. I had always enjoyed herbs like basil or mint — but the difference you get from something store-bought, which has been sitting in a container for days, versus snipping some leaves right off the stem is extraordinary. I could feel the electrical power and genetic intelligence transferring and interacting with my body at a very high-vibrational level. There is truly nothing like it!
I am sure that the same concept would be true if you were to tree ripen or vine ripen fruits or vegetables and eat them freshly picked as well. My experience has been more in growing herbs although I would like to get into growing more food plants. If you believe in the power of raw foods and herbs to heal the body, just try for yourself and experience the amazing energy from plants in their most raw and potent form.
Years later, during the 2020 pandemic, I decided I should start a little home garden at that time. I got several five-gallon buckets and drilled holes in the side about three inches from the bottom and placed some big rocks at the bottom (to allow a reservoir of water to collect). To start off the seeds, I filled the buckets with soil and I used the tops of a one-gallon water jug to create a ‘mini-greenhouse’ over the seedlings for the first few weeks, popping off the top to mist in water daily, until the green shoots really started to come up. At that point, I removed the jug tops and just watched these plants proliferate.
That year I planted oregano, about seven different varieties of basil, and about seven different varieties of mint. They all did amazing, producing a prolific amount of fresh produce that I harvested weekly. It was so fun adding the refreshing mint into smoothies or creating dressings using the fresh basil.
The next year, I decided to do a garden of therapeutic herbs, since I have found those to be so powerful in their supplement form (cold-pressed, tinctures or capsules) over the years. Here in Central Texas, I was able to successfully grow the following herbs quite easily using the same method as I did previously with the food herbs:
— Mullein
— Lobelia
— Motherwort
— Betony
— Skullcap
— Comfrey
— Echinacea
— Bugleweed
— Cleavers
— Wood Betony
— Valerian
— St. Johns Wort
— Burdock
— Marsh Mallow
I found the same powerful effects of eating these incredibly potent plants immediately after picking them — it was absolutely extraordinary, and I felt my body thanking me for giving it this extra boost from the plant world.
The maintenance for both the food herbs and the therapeutic herbs was really not difficult. All I really did was generously water the buckets once every other day. Because of the buckets, no weeding was really needed, and these plants are generally naturally pest-resistant.
Aside from being an amazing way to produce cheap and powerful food and beneficial healing compounds for your body, gardening is also such a therapeutic activity. Just getting out into the sunshine and watering your plants, trimming off and collecting food, and watching your creations grow from seeds into the most amazing full-sized beauties — yielding more produce than you can possibly eat — is such a rewarding, deep and meaningful experience. If you have children, surely this would be a great bonding experience and a great life lesson for you to share with them side-by-side.
Please, do not be intimidated — try it out for yourself! If you want recommendations of specific seeds or other garden products, you can find that here:
RapidRegeneration.com/GardenProducts
Good luck out there!