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Season 4 - Episode 156 - Scarification · 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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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So I have these seeds that I want to plant and it is for
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  butterfly peas and they are vines.
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  They are annuals where I am and they are abundant.
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  They're beautiful. But here's the cool thing, you
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  can make tea with them, which is exactly the thing I want to do.
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  I want to make tea with them. So here I am.
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  I get the seeds and I mean, I plant a lot of kinds of seeds
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  over the years and there's always tricks with each seed.
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  Each seed has its own little specific needs.
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  Sometimes you have to put some in the freezer to make them come
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  up. Literally you put seeds in the
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  freezer and then when you for at least, you know, a month and
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  then you take them out and then guess what?
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  Lo and behold, it kicks them into gear and says, hey, it was
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  cold, now you should sprout because there's all this coating
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  in them that we don't understand because to us it looks like
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  inert material, but it's not inert material.
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  It's alive. And so these triggers, they have
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  these little triggers that tell them it's time to grow.
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  So I want to grow butterfly peas and they're beautiful vines.
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  They climb, they're very bushy. They can go for the whole, they
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  can deal with these hot summers and they love to just have the
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  heat and humidity. So it's ideal.
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  So I'm just getting, I just found out about them recently.
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  I've not seen them before, but I was looking for something that I
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  could put along the edges of the chicken coop run so that I could
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  have flowers out there because it's in my distance and I want
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  to be able to see that. And lo and behold, butterfly
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  peas also make great tea. So you can have butterfly PT.
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  And I was like, oh, this sounds so cool.
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  And they're really electric colors.
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  They're like right up my alley. They're purple and blue and Aqua
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  and they've got just this stunning color.
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  And I get thinking, Oh my gosh, of course I want to make this
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  and of course I want this tea. So I get the seeds sent in to me
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  and here the the coolest part is you can have them, they, they
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  grow profusely. Like once they start growing,
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  they are fast growers. So I'm very excited about that.
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  But getting them to grow is tricky.
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  So I as I before I even order them, I'm reading the reviews
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  and some people are like, Oh, I can't get them to sprout.
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  Other people are like, I got mine to sprout right away.
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  So I start doing research on what is the deal with this seed
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  because there it was just too weird how some people could get
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  it to happen and some people just couldn't get it to happen.
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  So I'm looking and you have to do this process called
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  scarification, which I've never had to do with seeds before.
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  I've frozen them, I've soaked them.
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  I've done little things that set the triggers off in the seed
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  because you know, you got to do these things to make sure that
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  they know it's time to grow. And here you are, you got one
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  that has a new version of it, scarification.
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  So it's it, it's really just think of it like the root word.
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  You have to scar them. Something has to happen to them
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  in order to get them to crack because that outer shell is so
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  hard, it protects all the good stuff inside.
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  So it's something has to happen. So you have to either use a nail
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  file, sandpaper or an actual metal file and scar it till you
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  see that lighter color inside so that the seed knows it's time to
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  grow. So here I am thinking to myself,
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  well this is insane because what what happens in nature?
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  How do they even do this in nature?
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  But it can happen also through if a bird eats a seed and it
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  goes through the digestive system, then the acids in the
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  digestive system will cause the scarification and then the bird
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  poops it out and now it's fertilized and boom, you have it
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  growing somewhere. But either way, I have to go
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  through this process and do it. And it just really got me
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  thinking about how we all need to do those things to make sure
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  we're growing in the proper way as well.
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  So it's so fascinating when you get something new and you're
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  trying it. So today is going to be a day
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  where I sit and metal file a bunch of these to because I'm
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  going to go the metal file route.
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  I pretty much decided that and I'm also going to test it by
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  soaking them. I'm going to do a blind test by
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  soaking looking half of them as well as doing the scarification.
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  So I'm going to scar them and then I am going to put them in
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  water to see if they'll grow it quicker.
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  And this may seem all insane like why go through all this?
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  But it to me this is just a process of a self development
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  growth as well. Because here you are looking at
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  all these seeds and you're like, wow, I have to actually scar
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  them to make them grow. Where else does this show up in
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  our life? So I find it fascinating.
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  I'm going to try different things and I'll keep you posted
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  because I'm going to be wanting to drink some really Aqua,
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  purple, blue-green tea and I'm going to be really excited about
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  it. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.