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Season 4 - Episode 171 - The Cipollini onion · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the Coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Good morning my friends. OK, I have really exciting news
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  and I know that this is like exciting for me and it may not
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  be exciting for anybody else listening, but guess what?
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  I grew my first onion and I had started them inside.
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  I have this. So if you ever have the
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  opportunity and you're and you are into flavors to try a
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  Cipollini onion. They're small.
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  So many people buy bigger onions because, you know, they let they
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  provide more of an abundance. When you're cooking, you're
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  usually adding onions into what you're cooking.
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  But last year, maybe it was the year before I tried a Chipolini
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  onion. They had them for sale.
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  I think I was in Whole Foods that they were selling them and
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  they're small. And I was like, oh, that seems.
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  And it was just so cute. It was kind of like a little
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  squat onion. It was really cute and I got it
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  and I could not believe the flavor of it.
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  It was so different. It was kind of like this, a
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  sweeter onion, but it had this really wonderful flavor.
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  Now, since we all taste things differently, who knows if the
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  rest of you would feel this way, but I have to tell you the
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  sorry. So I see this and I'm like, OK,
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  I'm going to I'm going to try to find seeds for these.
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  Now onions do grow by seeds. Sometimes they sell them to you
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  ahead of time when they're already started because the
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  seeds are so small, they're like you can barely see them.
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  But I find online organic cipollini seeds and I get them
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  and I decide that I'm going to sow them and I try it and
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  nothing happens. Like nothing happens.
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  I put them outside, nothing happens.
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  So this year I ordered more seeds, a different company, and
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  I started them inside and I said OK, I'm going to see what
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  happens if I start them inside. So changing my approach and lo
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  and behold, they took off and then I planted them.
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  I transplanted them outside, which I mean sometimes don't
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  take well to transplanting. They can just depends on the
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  type. But I did it and I knew I was
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  starting at a time. Onions like cooler weather and
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  you know, it's not just hot here, it's hell hot.
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  So I'm like, OK, we'll see what happens.
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  And lo and behold, we had a really like not as hot spring, a
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  little bit of wetter spring and they took off And yesterday now,
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  while it wasn't fully like to the size it should be, it's
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  still edible. But it was like, you know, I now
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  it's really hot. So I have to pull them out of
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  the ground. I think today it's supposed to
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  be 95. So I, I was adamant I was going
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  to take him out before anything happened and I pulled him out of
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  the ground and I could not believe my fortune for what I
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  found because I was just. And that's how I felt like I'd
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  found a fortune because I had this little squat bulb shaped
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  onion and I was just like, this is perfect.
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  I was so excited and I stopped and I said to myself, isn't it
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  crazy how this one little thing, this one onion from one seed
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  could make me feel so excited? And it wasn't just that I I was
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  excited that I did it, it was that I was excited that I got to
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  give it an opportunity to actually come to fruition.
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  Because I always feel like when I plant seeds that don't work, I
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  feel like I wasted its potential.
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  And I swear to you, it sounds crazy, but that's exactly what
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  happens. It's just like cutting the
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  flowers from the cut flower garden.
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  Sometimes they have a really hard time with it because I
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  don't want to take its life. I want it to just come and do
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  what it was supposed to do and go.
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  So I've had to create a special spot where I can cut them.
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  I tell them that ahead of time so I don't feel bad about it.
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  And then I, I, when I cut them, I actually stop and pause and
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  tell them thank you and I bring them inside and I can appreciate
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  them differently. But this, I was like, Oh my
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  gosh, I got it to come up. I got it to live.
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  It's, it's, it's onion life. And as crazy as it sounds, I
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  felt so happy for that piece. I not that I did it, but that it
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  got to do its potential. And I think that that's where a
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  lot of us get stuck in the world is that we feel like we're not
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  living to our potential. And I, I see it with my clients,
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  I see it with myself. It's like I'm not living to the
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  potential that I could be. I hear that all the time.
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  And So what, what do you do about that?
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  What do you do about that? Well, you keep doing what I did
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  when I tried to figure out how to grow a Chipolini onion.
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  You change your approach, you change your approach, you change
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  your approach, but what you don't do is give up on yourself.
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  You don't give up on what you're working on inside yourself.
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  You keep going and you change your approach.
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  And that's the best part of it. When you can change your
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  approach, when you can ask different questions, when you
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  can seek different people, that's when the world changes.
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  So remember that. Remember the lesson of growing a
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  Chipolini onion. And if you ever have the
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  opportunity to eat one, grab it, my friends, because they're
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  awesome. All right, I hope you have a
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.