Seed to Table | TUH #030

Foreign.

Hey guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast where as you know, we go down the road of everything. Anti aging, longevity, biohacking and everything in between. As you can see, I'm in the parking lot of the world's greatest grocery store. And what makes this the greatest grocery store is how they originate grow their organic produce. It's called seed to table. It's been labeled the number one grocery store in America. And I got a behind the scenes tour today with the helicopter out to thousands of acres and it detailed under the. Under the roots look at how they're raising their organic produce. This is going to be a really interesting episode. I snipped together everything behind the scenes that makes true organic food. Organic food I always talk about, it's not really the food, it's the distance from the food to the table. So I hope you enjoy today's episodes on the true roots of organic living. All right, guys, we're at Oaks Farms distribution center in Immokalee, Florida. This is where it all happens. It all comes in here and then it gets distributed out to the restaurants, to the, to the grocery stores, to his grocery store. The food and thought and seat to table. Let's get ready for the tour. Seat to table from your own farm, getting there same day.

The same day. So that's.

You mean same day you harvesting, packaged, shipped and unstoried.

We get to the store in the same day.

That's why we have two times, times a day delivery. Because in the morning we're bringing in the product that's not from the farms and in the afternoons we're bringing in farm fresh product after it's harvested in the morning.

Yep. Wow. So something could be growing and I could be eating it within 48 hours.

The way that nature intended for us. Right. Because there's a studies that done that show that even, even the electric living energy and food and one or two days later is down to half and then three or four days later it's down to half again. So if you get this food that's been sitting in the store for weeks or even months, sometimes you get apples that could be a year old. The living energy in that is depleted. It's really. I've never been sick. I've never missed a day of work in my life. I don't get sick. But I've been around food that's harvested that day all the time. I think it has amazing values of that. I think that electric living energy that we talk about, we're made or electric. Right. You know More about this than I. But, but, but nature intended for us to eat food that was, that was living. And at the time that you. There's nothing better than we go out the farm when you pick the strawberries. We'll be picking the strawberries off the plant and eating them today. And they taste amazing. And it's so much better for you.

Yeah, I agree.

Our first seeded table salads. So this is all made with the highest quality growing practices. True organic product from Lily's out in California.

Okay. This product, this comes all the way in from California.

It does. All these come in right in from California. California. These were loaded three days ago. All this product goes on team trucks and they, they bump the dock here. So here's some cauliflower from Durigo Andy boy out in California. They're a really good grower. This product specifically is from Yuma, Arizona. Right now. A really good snow white. Good, good growing package.

Yeah.

Yeah, that looks beautiful.

It's heavy too. A lot of water in there because that feels good. Feels nutritious.

Of all the things that we can't do in production here in Florida, we go to that extra length to try to source the very best vendors from around the country. Even as you see sometimes the world to bring in the stuff that's best for our stores and our customers is the quality of our food. You get access to, you shop to them. Is that dwindling down or is it growing? It is. It's getting worse every, every year from a health perspective because there's more genetically modified, you know, items out. There's, there's, you know, and there are, there is a demand for quality food. Yeah, but, and the only thing that's going to, going to stifle the people from producing all the garbage is education. So when we educate people that, no, I'm not going to eat that, then there's no longer a market for it. And we can change the industry to get everybody doing, doing the right thing. And that's, that's kind of the goal here.

Is it possible to get non GMO corn nowadays?

It's to going.

Got to get tough.

It, it's, it's, it's tough. We. One of the things that I was, that I was going to try to grow and there's, there's sweet corn that we're getting this non gmi, but it's getting tougher because they're, they're exactly modifying everything, right? Yeah, but, but corn is for the land that we have over here and the soil type that we have over here. It's, it's like a huge money loser. That's the only reason we're not growing the corn here. They can grow it over there, we can grow it here. But you're gonna, they grow it over.

There, non gmo and you can fly it in cheaper.

Yeah.

So where are they growing it?

Over by Bellblade, over, over by Lewiston, by Lake Anchovy.

Okay.

Yeah. None of this is directly modified. That is perfect. Yeah. Look at this. And every one of them is, look at the quality there of the product. I mean, that's from, that's from giving the plant what it needs. That's. The other guys that are growing with the chemical fertilizer can't grow this quality because. Because it doesn't have the nutrients, you know.

Right.

This is our state of the art. So this gentleman, I can't really say on the record what it, what specifically, but they, they really figured out the citrus greening program the right way by putting the right nutrients back into the soil. And they've got amazing products here. This gentleman spent 40 years working on this. He started this in college.

Putting the nutrients into the soil. And I talk about that all the time.

And they literally say he ties it on the box. Nearly four decades in the making. So really first class individuals, four weeks, seasons, and the flavor profiles out of this world.

So the people that don't know the Florida citrus industry has been completely decimated. And it's been decimated by a virus called the citrus greening virus. And when I say it's decimated, I would say that the Florida citrus industry is a shell like 15 or 20% of what it was.

Wow.

10 or 15 years ago, oranges. And I think my personal thoughts are, is that all these farmers were doing the same program that the universities gave them. They're, they're using a lot of glyphate in these groves. They're giving them chemical fertilizer, they're spraying the trees and they're, they're all about production. But little by little, it's like going to McDonald's every day and eating that. You know, you're going to be healthy, you're going to be pretty healthy until you're 15 or 20 years old. You can eat all that garbage. And then it's then, then, then the reality of all the damage you've done comes to fruition. And that's what happened with our soil here is they were depleting the soil across all these orange groves. And then this, this virus came in and it spread like wildfire because all the trees were truly sick because they didn't have the nutrition in the, in the ground. So what we've done, we're going to fly over today. We're going to fly over our orange grove. I have 170 acre orange grove that we put in. It's still young. The trees are about this big. They're all covered right now by white nets so that they won't get the disease. The citrus greening disease is spread by flies, by white flies. So the nets protect them from getting that disease. And meanwhile we're putting, you're also going to fly over the field. You're going to see, you're going to see 600 tons of chicken manure that we just brought out there and we're spreading it around. 600 tons of chicken manure come, comes from North Florida. They dry it out slightly so it doesn't, it's not green, it doesn't stink. But it's got all the microbial activity and it's got, you know, it builds the soil base back and then we put a lot of compost mulch, we moss a pine bark mulch and then let it compost for a year, year and a half and then we put a lot of that out there as well. So these practices are what's going to, going to make a healthy tree and a healthy disease resistant plant because it's got, it's got the building blocks.

If somebody's watching this and they, and they, they're so interested in what you're doing and they, and they want to, as a consumer, they can't source from you. They'd have to find a grocery store. Yeah. Because I think eventually the market has got to go direct to consumer. It's got it. The consumer's got to be able to buy their own grass fed meats, their own pasture raised chickens. Because I, there are very few places where they can go into a grocery store and get everything that they need in one place that's, that's truly healthy, organic grown the way the kind of care that you guys are taking less it's a seed to table or you know, or food.

We did a seminar back 10, 15 years ago about the, the high cost of cheap food like what you really pay in the end by buying a 99 cent hamburger or something like that. And it's, it's a, it's, it's devastating what's happened in our country. The whole idea is to get healthy food out to the masses. Because when I travel around the country I've been doing a lot of traveling around, doing speaking events. And you. I can't find any good food. I have to go in a grocery store and settle for whatever produce that I can find. But as far as finding something that's.

Prepared, you'd have to have like growing within a certain distance of the store, right? Yeah, growing and processing it.

I think that we could, we could, we can circumvent that somewhat like, like we do with the products that you see here by putting it on our team trucks, our own. As you see, we have over 300 trucks over there. So we could, we could get stuff to the, we can get a lot of the product to the stores within a day, within 24 hours, within 30 hours by, by our streamlined process. And as you see, you look through all of our warehouse today, have you seen any one thing that looks old in here? No. Everything is good.

It's smells fresh. It feels fresh. Hey guys, if you've been watching the.

Ultimate Human Podcast for any length of time, you know that one thing I do not do is push products. I do not just let any advertiser into this space because I believe that the products that appear on the Ultimate Human Podcast should be things that I use every day in my life to improve my own physiology. One of them is something called the Echo Go Plus. The Echo Go plus is a hydrogen water generator that you can take on the go. You essentially take the top off of this bottle, you pour bottled water in this and repeatedly it will make high part per million hydrogen water. You press this little button, you'll see these bubbles going up in the water. That's hydrogen being created in the water. There are all kinds of peer reviewed published clinical studies on the benefits of hydrogen water, including reduced inflammation, better absorption of your supplements, better absorption of your foods, better better balance of the stomach acid and it feeds an entire class of bacteria in your gut. Hydrogen water, in my opinion, is the most beneficial water that you can drink. And now you can take it wherever you go. You can go to echo echo h2o.com that's echo E C H O h2o.com Enter the code ultimate10 for a discount echo h2o. Enter the code ultimate10 for a Discount code. Most of us have a very difficult time meeting our protein needs. And certain protein sources like whey protein and others can be as little as 20% absorbable. This is 99% absorbable and it has all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to build lean muscle to recover. To improve our exercise performance and most importantly, to repair after we have intense exercise. So this is called perfect amino by Body Health. It's, it's like I said, 99 absorbable. It only has two calories. Eventually the caloric intake has virtually no caloric intake. It will not break a fast. It tastes amazing. You mix it in water. I take this literally every single morning. If you're working out in a fasted state, you have to take a full spectrum amino acid prior to your workout to preserve your lean muscle and make sure that you're recovering properly. And again, it won't.