March 28, 2026 • 41 mins
In this episode, we step outside the traditional conversation around education and take a deeper look at something bigger—how we’re raising our kids in today’s world.
Cheryl sits down with Doug Evans, founder of The Sprouting Company, to talk about self-sufficiency, food, environment, and why more families are questioning the systems we’ve always relied on—from school to the food we eat.
They explore:
- Why play-based learning may be more powerful than structured classrooms
- How environment (indoor vs outdoor living) impacts children’s development
- The connection between food, health, and independence
- Simple ways families can become more self-sufficient (even if you’re busy)
- What it looks like to raise kids outside the traditional system
While this conversation isn’t just about homeschooling, it touches on a core idea many parents are starting to realize:
We have more control over our children’s lives—and learning—than we’ve been led to believe.
If you’ve ever questioned the way things are “supposed” to be done, this episode will give you a lot to think about.
Episode Resources:
Instagram- The Sprouting Company
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSproutingCompany
- Cheryl’s eBook- The Homeschool How To: Complete Starter Guide
Instagram: TheHomeschoolHowToPodcast
Facebook: The Homeschool How To Podcast
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SPEAKER_02 (00:02):
I didn't plan to homeschool.
I started asking hard questions,realized how little control
parents actually have, and madethe hard decision to leave a
government job to homeschool mykids.
Now I interview otherhomeschooling parents to learn
how this all works.
I'm Cheryl, and this is theHomeschool How-To podcast.
Let's learn this together.
(00:23):
Welcome.
And with us today, I have DougEvans.
Doug, thank you for being here.
SPEAKER_00 (00:28):
Cheryl, it's such a joy to connect with you.
I love your work.
I love your mission.
And thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_02 (00:35):
Awesome.
So yeah, when you messaged me,it was like, hi, I do sprouts.
We do this for for mythree-year-old and her pot.
And I was like, yeah, come onthe show.
No, no further questions asked.
But you want to know what I havelike this curiosity about
sprouts because two decades ago,I something made me want to um
purchase like the truth aboutcancer series.
(00:57):
I don't know if you've everheard about that from Ty and
Charlene Bollinger.
And they talked a lot abouthealth in it and eating the
right foods.
And sprouts was a huge thingthat they discussed.
So over the years, I've kind ofbeen like, Where are sprouts?
You don't hear about them.
I don't like see them in thestore.
I don't know how to grow them.
So let's first start out withokay, so are you homeschooling?
Do you have kids?
SPEAKER_00 (01:18):
I have a daughter that is three and a half.
She's gonna be four in July, andshe's never been in a structured
classroom.
Most of her time is runningaround naked, you know, in the
yard.
We have a teacher who comes heretwice a week, and then her
friends come, so there's alittle pod, and they just
basically play all day in astructured environment.
(01:40):
And then two days a week, shegoes to the boulders and she has
an outside uh teacher.
So her and her friends runaround outside in the boulders
and they play outside.
So all of her schooling isreally play.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, as it should be, especially at three.
Oh my goodness.
She must be having the time ofher life.
SPEAKER_00 (02:00):
Um we have a we have a we have a trampoline in the
backyard, and we have a lot ofstuff for her to climb on, and
we have hot springs, and she'saquatic.
We're near Joshua Tree at WonderValley Hot Springs in Southern
California.
SPEAKER_02 (02:16):
Wow, beautiful.
So it's a it's a little warmerthere than in New York here
right now, right?
SPEAKER_00 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:22):
Okay, so what even made you decide to not go the
traditional schooling route?
Because she would typically bein like a preschool right now.
SPEAKER_00 (02:29):
I mean, like classrooms, like off-gassing
VOCs, you know, all sorts offorced medical tyranny on her
that we just want her to be akid.
We want her to be like ananimal.
What's a VOC?
Volatile organic compounds.
These are the gases that comeout of tiles and paint and
(02:51):
carpets and plastics.
SPEAKER_02 (02:54):
Wow.
So I've never even heard of thatterm.
And I mean, I know they're notgood to be around, but it's like
there's a there's a reason tostay away, especially as a young
kid.
SPEAKER_00 (03:03):
Probably allergies and of course.
Like you want you want kids tobe outside, you want them to
play, you want them to not likeeven just heating and air
conditioning is a challenge,right?
Free on or free on alternativesand stabilizing their body at 68
degrees, 365 days a year.
(03:24):
No, let them, you know, let themhave some natural stressors.
SPEAKER_02 (03:28):
Very true.
I have heard a little bit aboutthat, and that that would be a
cool rabbit hole to go down.
Like what what it really isdoing to our body to be at such
a comfortable temperature allyear long.
SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
We know what it does.
It just makes us weak.
It makes us incapable of dealingwith circumstances outside of
that, right?
Which is the extreme version ofthat, right?
The extreme is like JessieItzler, cold plunge, you know,
sauna, right?
Zero degrees to 200 degrees.
Like the people are doing it.
(04:01):
And that's great.
So they're forcing the stressingof the environment.
SPEAKER_02 (04:05):
But is that healthy for your body though?
SPEAKER_00 (04:08):
Yeah, it creates a hermetic response where the body
needs to respond.
So if you get like my daughterloves the cold plunge, right?
And she goes into the coldplunge, her body needs to
respond.
And so it it raises the wholeresponse system to generate
heat.
So you don't want to leave herin there to freeze, right?
(04:28):
But she's so cute.
Like maybe at the end she maywalk in and say, Leaf, do you
like the her name is Leaf,L-E-A-F.
Do you like the cold?
And she goes, Cold neverbothered me anyway.
But can like a zoom frozencharacter.
It's very good.
Like in Europe, they put all thekids, like in Denmark, in
(04:49):
strollers outside in the winterto take their naps.
SPEAKER_02 (04:53):
I have heard that.
I've I think I heard it onOprah, and then I stopped
believing in Oprah.
So all their all her credibilitywent out the window for that.
But that's so interesting.
SPEAKER_00 (05:02):
Wait, can I just ask what what what what happened
with Oprah?
SPEAKER_02 (05:06):
Do we have the time?
So, no, but she, I mean, she's Iall right.
Well, do I want to sound like acrazy conspiracy theorist or
just like like this is what'sout in the news is Cheryl.
SPEAKER_00 (05:18):
Let me let me just share with you that I haven't
read a newspaper or TV, we haveno TV or watched the news in
over two decades.
SPEAKER_02 (05:28):
Well, that's amazing.
So that's amazing.
So you don't even know what'shappening outside.
SPEAKER_00 (05:33):
No, I have no no idea.
Because for me, like my missionis feed the world sprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (05:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (05:39):
Like I want to produce content that connects
with people, inspires people,and all the other stuff is a
distraction.
Like I remember watching, youknow, a prior war, and I was
just glued to the TV.
And you know, it wasn't helpfulfor me.
SPEAKER_02 (05:55):
No, and that's exactly what they wanted from it
was people to just be glued andin fear in constant fight or
flight, but not in the healthykind.
And I'm in bliss.
Yeah.
So Oprah, well, she happens tohave a lot of friends who happen
to be maybe pedophiles, and it'sand then she has a lot of money
that's funneling to Haiti, andwhere a lot of children
(06:18):
supposedly go missing forthings.
And in that school that shebuilt in Haiti, a lot of girls
in that school were physicallyassaulted by people that worked
in the school.
So it's just like, you know,there's a lot of coincidences
there.
So I just stopped watching her.
SPEAKER_00 (06:34):
Yeah.
But yeah, you gotta, I mean, wehave to take a stand for the
kids, right?
We have to take a stand for thekids.
And I think we also, as leaders,need to get to the root of like
what's really happening becauseI don't believe anything that
they say on the news.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
Build people up and then theytear them down.
(06:56):
And like, you know, I have athree-year-old, like I take a
bullet for my daughter, right?
There's no question about that.
And so I'm very protective and Ilook at all people, like I want
to protect all people from this.
And so that's let's go on withthe the homeschool.
SPEAKER_02 (07:13):
Yeah, but you know, I do have a question for you
with not having TV and stuff,and you said you're you're in
California though.
So what was COVID like for youif you didn't have a TV and you
really had this sort ofdisconnect from the outside
world?
Do you do you and your spouselike work in the office setting?
We don't really so you're like,we don't we had no idea COVID
happened.
You were like, you and the Amishhad no idea.
SPEAKER_00 (07:35):
Yeah, no, I mean there was no social distancing,
no masks.
You know, we would go to townand like they'd say you need to
wear a mask, and we're like,what?
And so we'd we might get thrownout of the supermarket if we
went, but you know, we had 200pounds of organic sprouting
(07:55):
seeds and jars.
And so while people werefighting over macaroni and
cheese and Coca-Cola and toiletpaper, you know, we were using a
bidet and eating sprouts and andwe were just fine.
Like, like really don't have anyCOVID trauma.
Our daughter doesn't have anyCOVID trauma.
(08:17):
You know, it it wasn't evencoincidentally.
Now that you mentioned COVID, Idid a podcast yesterday with Dr.
Peter McCullough.
Wow, he's a hero.
I was a guest on his podcast.
Congratulations.
Yeah, he's a big sprouter.
Yeah.
So he knows about sprouts andthe like.
And we talked about theanti-inflammatory and preventing
(08:39):
disease.
And so, you know, I did read hispapers, and so I was familiar
with with him, which was very,very powerful.
So I'm not like total head inthe sand, but I have layers of
filter that that prevent me fromgoing down like doom scrolling.
Yeah.
(09:00):
Everything is filtered for me.
Like if you said something likeI'm not gonna go down, you know,
the Oprah, you know, experience,like, you know, for me, and it's
interesting what what you saidon that, I've read many of
Oprah's books, right?
And like one of the things thatthat I remember every and it it
affects me every day, is whensomeone is wild or crazy or
(09:23):
angry or rageous, most peoplesay, Well, what's wrong with
you?
What's wrong with them?
And in my voice, I hear Oprahsaying, What happened to them?
SPEAKER_02 (09:33):
Yeah.
What happened to them?
I I love Oprah too.
I have I was a super soul Sundaywatcher every week, but and it
was, you know, going down thecrazy rabbit holes I went down.
Um, and I know everything.
You can't believe everythingthat you hear, whatever.
You have to make sense of like,does this make sense or does
this not?
And her and like Ellen were veryhard.
(09:56):
Tom Hanks were very hard for meto grapple with, like, no, these
are people I feel like I knowand I trust.
Like they'd be like my aunts oruncles.
But I had to like wrap my headaround, like, there's people in
the live in like a differentculture.
They might be in America, butlike, I don't know if it's the
Hollywood, the politician, orjust anybody with a certain
amount of money and power, likelevel that they are, they live
(10:18):
in almost a different culturethan we do, and they see things
differently.
And I don't know, it's yeah, II'd stay out of that.
Stay out of that.
SPEAKER_00 (10:26):
Yeah, like I mean, look, what what I what I can
say, right, is you know, there'sthere's people that are in the
e-files.
I don't even want to say that.
There's people that are in thee-files.
Say whatever you want here,right?
But there are people that are inthe e-files, and some of them,
like aside from them being inthe e-files, did a lot of good
(10:48):
work, right?
And then there was somethingabout this charismatic charlatan
pedophile, money, cars, planesthat appealed to people's desire
for X, like for X.
And, you know, so it's hard tolook at, you know, like we all
(11:10):
have shadow.
Now you look like Mary Poppins,Cheryl.
So like I can't imagine youdoing anything bad, right?
Anything ever, like just ever.
Like, I'm I'm sure you wouldn'teven jaywalk in New York City in
the middle of the night with nocars coming.
Like you're probably waiting forthe for the light to turn,
(11:31):
right?
But everybody else, other thanCheryl, probably has done
something that that they regret,gives them a pit in the stomach
or or something.
And so I want to believe, likecertain people who've made
mistakes in life and admitted ithave been redeemed.
Like Mike Tyson, like went tojail for rape, right?
(11:55):
Paid the price, came out, andnow he's the hero.
Like everybody, maybe you don't,but most people like I don't
follow him, love and accept MikeTyson, you know, as a champion,
you know, and because he paidthe price.
Mike Tyson paid the price,right?
He did something wrong, he paidthe price.
Mike Milken, like, went to jailfor insider trading, paid the
(12:18):
price, and is now, you know, ahonorable contributing member of
society, right?
Martha Stewart, right, went tojail and didn't get canceled
because she paid the price.
So I think when people pay theprice, so they can go.
The people who hide, who dosomething wrong and hide or in
denial, that's when it's hard tomake a comeback because they
(12:41):
don't own up to the mistakesthat they've made.
Now, Cheryl, have you made anymistakes?
SPEAKER_02 (12:46):
I have.
You know, I jaywalked when wevisited Florida a couple weeks
ago.
And it's funny because I had toask my friend's permission.
I was like, she was f I'm fromNew York, where you aren't
supposed to jaywalk.
And we were in Florida and Ilike called her up because she
was meeting us, and I said, Arewe allowed to jaywalk here?
She's like, Yeah, because thebeach was like right across from
where we were staying.
(13:07):
Right.
But the crosswalks were like,you had to go half a mile that
way or half a mile that way.
But I did, I had to ask herpermission.
Am I gonna be in trouble?
But but yeah, of course, ofcourse.
You know what I think it is too,the politicians and the people
in Hollywood?
I don't even know if there's illintent to start with.
I think it's like, hey, youyou're trying to make it in the
big leagues, like whether it be,you know, in in the political
(13:29):
realm or in Hollywood or musicor whatever.
And it's like, oh yeah, you findyourself at this gathering or a
party or someone's house, andthen there's like like Epstein
did, there's this system oflike, oh, get them under the
influence of something and oncamera doing something that they
don't want others to know about,but they're under the influence
and not making their own, youknow, good judgment calls.
(13:51):
And then I think that's how alot of that Epstein stuff got so
carried away.
You know, yeah, yeah.
I mean, and then it's likeyou're blackmailed, you're
stuck.
SPEAKER_00 (13:59):
Yeah.
Well, let's stay out of it.
Let's stay with the sprouts andyou know, out of it.
SPEAKER_02 (14:03):
So, so lesson of all of that is you can look at this
crazy world and be like, okay,do I want to send my kids into
the system or do I want to findways to live self-sustainably?
Because we can't changeHollywood, we can't change the
politicians other than maybelocally you can change some
politicians.
But what can we do to make ourlives more self-sustainable, to
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not depend on the government forwhether it be, you know, for
food, for even in a naturaldisaster, like a hurricane or
something.
I don't want to have to dependon FEMA to come rescue my
family.
I want to be able to do that.
And I think sprouts, it soundslike from what I've researched,
is a very good way to do that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:44):
Yeah.
I mean, look, look, you askedwhy everyone isn't sprouting.
It's because of Fruit Loops andPop-Tarts, right?
It's because the food system isengineered for long shelf life,
high margins, high processing.
So everything that's not that,you know, there's no market for
it.
So as a result, right, in 2026,where sprouts are the most
(15:08):
nutrient-dense food on theplanet, up to a hundred times
more nutrient-dense than maturevegetables.
Fresher because you're growingthem on your countertop, like
right here.
I'm growing my sprouts likeright here, right?
In a jar.
There's no national orinternational sprouting
companies, period.
Period.
How is that possible?
(15:29):
Short shelf life, low margins,they require refrigerated
transportation, plasticpackaging.
So wherever sprouts are sold, itis a local or regional business
at best.
And okay, so how quick?
Yeah, okay, go ahead.
Yeah, so my insight was I don'twant to sell sprouts that are
perishable.
(15:49):
Like I lived, you know, startingin 2017, when I started to write
the Sprout Book, and I'm very,very proud of my book, The
Sprout Book, became a nationalbestseller, almost a hundred
thousand copies sold.
Amazing.
When major publisher, St.
Martin's McMillan, when I wrotethe book, I had just completed
(16:12):
living in one cubic foot withsix jars.
I was growing thousands ofcalories a day of sprouts.
Wow.
And I was getting, I thoughtinitially, like maybe this was
too good to be true.
So I called up Dr.
Oz, Dr.
Dean Ornish, Dr.
Axe, Dr.
Joel Furman, Dr.
(16:33):
Joel Kahn, Dr.
Alan Goldhammer, and all ofthese doctors had one thing in
common, right?
Even though some were keto, somewere Dr.
Mark Hyman, functional medicine,they all had their own shtick.
What they all had in common isthey all loved sprouts.
They were all like sprouters.
And I said, hey, why?
(16:54):
And the interviews that I didwith them ended up being like
the basis of my book proposal.
So I went to the publisher and Iwent and I said, hey, I want to
write a book on sprouts.
And the the publisher was like,there's no market for sprouts.
This is a non-category.
And I was like, no, no, DIY isbig, people are fermenting,
(17:16):
they're growing mushrooms.
And mark my words, I'm going tocreate a movement about growing
sprouts because it's too goodthat you can take, you know, a
quarter cup of seeds, put themin a jar, and get a full jar of
sprouts in five days withoutsoil, sunshine, or fertilizer.
(17:36):
Like it's just too good.
It's so good.
And that's the essence of it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:40):
Did our ancestors do this?
SPEAKER_00 (17:42):
They've been sprouting in cultures like
Japan, Korea, China, India.
They've been sprouting since thebeginning of time.
Sprouts are the originalancestral food, right?
Seeds germinate, grow intovegetable.
There would be no grass-fed cowsif they weren't eating sprouted
(18:06):
grass, right?
So everything begins with aseed.
All nutrition of all landanimals, all amino acids, come
from sprouted seeds.
So when I see like an apple or Isee a head of broccoli, those
are just mature sprouts in mymind.
And it's so multiplicative,combinatorial, exponential that
(18:30):
one seed, when sprouted, willgrow into like a five-pound head
of broccoli.
And if you let it continue togrow, it will flower and then it
will fruit.
And then that one seed willmultiply into a thousand more
seeds.
So, and when you sprout a seed,like one seed can make weigh,
like, for example, like a gram,it will turn into 10 grams.
(18:53):
So it's it's exponential.
SPEAKER_02 (18:55):
Okay, so is there a difference between a seed
growing into broccoli and thenthis is that the same seed?
Same seed that's gonna be thesprout that you would eat that
has more nutrients than the headof broccoli.
SPEAKER_00 (19:07):
Well, yeah, the reason why is at the seed stage,
it's concentrated.
So you're getting themaristomatic stem cells of the
plants in the seed stage.
So as the plant gets bigger,it's getting more water, it's
getting more fiber, it's gettingmore vitamin C.
But the core concentratedelements, like you, you know,
(19:28):
you when you see a baby, thebaby, you know, grows into its
eyes, right?
The eyes come out big and thenthe body grows into it.
Have you seen that?
I guess I never noticed, butsure.
Yeah, well, just a like you lookat it.
SPEAKER_02 (19:42):
All that's going through my mind though is from
Jerry Maguire, the little kidgoing, the human head weighs
eight pounds.
SPEAKER_00 (19:48):
So, so the thing is at the at the small level, it's
concentrated and potent andvaluable and fresh.
And you're in New York, right?
The average lettuce that you'reeating in New York is coming
from California, right?
3,000 miles across the country,right?
Over a two-week period.
And once it's cut away from theroot system, right, it's
(20:09):
degrading, it's diminishing.
So to me, I'm a fresh guy.
I want fresh.
And turns out with sprouts, likeI just nailed it.
It was like, boom, this is whatwe all can eat.
And the fact that I livedexclusively on sprouts for 30
days at a time, and I had energyand vitality.
And Cheryl, I'm gonna be 60years old in three months.
(20:31):
Wow.
And I'm at like the optimumphysical, mental, spiritual, you
know, position.
Like I just, every aspect of mylife is flowing because I have
my authentic purpose.
Like to sh I'm the voice ofSprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (20:45):
Okay, so what got you into Sprouts in the first
place?
After three years ofinterviewing homeschooling
families, I realized howoverwhelming it can be to piece
everything together.
So I took the best advice, tips,questions, and resources that
I've learned along the way andput them into one practical
ebook.
If you're looking for a clearstarting point, you'll find the
(21:06):
link in this show's description.
SPEAKER_00 (21:12):
So I moved to Wonder Valley Hot Springs in 2018, full
time.
There was not only this anenvironmental desert, right?
Joshua Tree is a desert, it wasalso a food desert.
No farmers markets, no healthfood stores, no restaurants, and
I didn't want to go to thegrocery store to buy overpriced
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things that were in bags andboxes and jars and cans.
So I had the fantasy ofhomesteading, homeschooling.
So, and turns out it's reallyhard to grow food unless it's
sprouts, and sprouts it's likeeasy.
So I got a few jars, I startedto sprout, and then like I
didn't have to leave.
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I was getting all my nutrients,and then so I'm living on the
sprouts, I'm writing the Sproutbook, you know, I'm living, you
know, just this happy life.
And then my book was done.
My book published April 2020,right in the beginning of COVID.
And so, you know, I didn't haveto leave.
I was playing on doing a booktour, going to New York, Barnes
(22:16):
and Noble, Union Square, andeverything got canceled.
So I was like, okay, you know, Iwas whatever.
Six years ago, I was 55, youknow, 53 years old or whatever.
I was like, oh, I gotta go ontosocial media.
So I'm like cold calling,getting onto podcasts, started
my Instagram account, started myTikTok.
(22:38):
Fast forward now, I have likeover 500,000 followers across my
platforms, and you know, I'msharing this gospel sprouting.
Amazing.
SPEAKER_02 (22:49):
Okay, so if I wanted to start growing sprouts, it
sounds like they've you saidthey have a five-day shelf life.
So are you constantly like everyday putting in a couple more
seeds?
SPEAKER_00 (22:59):
Always growing.
SPEAKER_02 (23:00):
Always putting in a couple more seeds.
Yeah.
Give me could you give me my oneweek to-do list if I want to
have sprouts every day for meand my kids?
SPEAKER_00 (23:09):
Go to thesproutingcompany.com.
There are bundles.
You could I always recommend thedouble sprouter so you could
have two jars growing at alltimes, so you're always eating.
And the thing about sprouts isin the beginning, I thought that
they were a garnish or a sidedish.
And now sprouts are the centerof my plate.
Like I eat entire sprout salads.
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I don't use protein powders andsmoothies.
I throw sprouts in there.
I add them to wraps, to soups,to entrees, to salads.
Like sprouts are everywherebecause in my heart and in my
head, I know these are thefreshest, most nutrient-dense
foods, and they're they'recrispy and they're crunchy and
(23:53):
they're alive.
So when you said, did ourancestors sprout?
Yeah, they've been sproutingthrough.
But then when the industrializedrevolution came and you're
buying produce from thesupermarket, I was just watching
uh my friend Cash talking abouthow the founder of Moderna
started another um company to beable to put mRNA vaccines in
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spray that they're spraying onproduce to deliver vaccines to
the produce that you eat.
Jesus.
How is that legal?
SPEAKER_02 (24:25):
How?
I know it's happening.
I know it's happening, but howis that legal?
I mean, I don't know.
You can't jaywalk, but you canspray mRNA on people's feet.
SPEAKER_00 (24:35):
I mean, it's it's all like this, you know,
politics.
That's where I want to beresponsible for my own, you
know, supply and growing.
So it's like what what I eat,what my family eats, you know,
what your audience eats issprouting.
So now, like, you know, we have,you know, it's tens of thousands
of people are buying thesesprouting kits, they're buying
(24:55):
the seeds, it's just going andthey're shifting away, like
they're tuning in to freshconsciousness.
They're tuning in to everythingthat they put in their mouth is
a life or death decision.
SPEAKER_02 (25:08):
Yeah, I mean, thank goodness for RFK Jr.
in there because that probablyhelped promote, you know, your
mission as well.
Because people really didn't paymuch attention to it before.
I hope they are now.
SPEAKER_00 (25:20):
Yeah, I mean, look, I I'm non-political.
Like, I I've met many of thesepeople.
I don't know, like, I reallydon't know.
What I do know is that likesprouts are better than
processed food.
There's no dyes, there's noadditives, and there's also no
saturated fat.
So, you know, the the foodpyramid to me could be 100%
(25:42):
sprouts.
Like it just could be.
SPEAKER_02 (25:44):
So, what kind of sprouts are you eating?
Like, what are they?
For someone that's never evenprobably eaten one.
SPEAKER_00 (25:50):
Like, you know, one of the easiest things, this is
like a lentil sprout.
You know, I've been snacking onthese all day.
Alfalfa sprouts, broccolisprouts, radish is very like
it's daikon rodish, so it hasthe spiciness.
Green peas are sweet, mung beansare protein-oriented, garbanzo
beans are like totally like wewe make hummus where we just
(26:14):
take sprouted garbanzo beans andwe blend them with fresh
homemade sauerkraut and we makeit into a hummus.
And so the the idea of knowingyour ingredients.
So the the basically broccoli,radish, clover, alfalfa, mung
beans, lentils, green peas, andgarbanzo beans are like the
(26:37):
core, like little sweet thatthat is more than enough.
And then you could add pestosauce, marinara sauce, um, you
know, oil and vinegar, like youknow, srirachi, like whatever
you want to add onto it, and thesprout the sprouts will pick up
that flavor on their own.
SPEAKER_02 (26:56):
They're small, right?
Like, are you eating a lot ofsprouts to eat a whole salad?
SPEAKER_00 (27:01):
You know, a quarter cup of seeds, right?
About 40 grams of seeds willfill up a whole jar, 400 grams,
which is approximately fivecups.
So, and a cup is a serving.
So you can get from one jar ofsprouts, you get five or six
serving.
So for me, like I'm like thesprouts guy.
(27:24):
I'll eat a lot of sprouts, so Ihave many jars going, but from a
medicinal level, you know, youcould just have one cup and get
a great dose.
It's a great prebiotic, it'sgreat for the microbiome, it's
soluble, insoluble fiber,contains vitamin A, vitamin B,
vitamin C, vitamin K, folate,iron, like and it's
(27:48):
enzymatically active in alive.
And every sprout contains everyamino acid to form complete
protein.
Like, so so this information hasbeen suppressed.
And also, sprouts areanti-inflammatory, they help
regulate insulin levels ondiabetics, you know, they can
(28:09):
create heat shock proteins thatreduce symptoms of you know all
sorts of brain, you know,malfunctions.
So if there was a panacea, theymight cure cancer.
Yeah, yeah.
Chemoprotective, there'sprobably more than 2,000
peer-reviewed published studieson how sprouts, you know, can do
(28:31):
all the things from cancer toanti-inflammatory to reducing
oxidative stress to regulatingthe insulin levels, you know,
and diabetics.
There's so much.
And how the sprouts work is justharmonious with nature.
They're water-based, high fiber.
We have all this weightmanagement issues, like so many,
(28:52):
like right now, most of America,and I say that sincerely, most
of America is overweight orobese.
Sprouts are naturally weightloss foods, fat loss foods,
because they're high nutrient,low fat, low calorie.
So what do you think happens ifyou're filling up on food that
is high fiber, high nutrient,low fat, low calorie?
(29:13):
You're naturally just gonna loseweight.
SPEAKER_02 (29:15):
Okay, but for the busy mom that's homeschooling
and maybe working too, what do Ihave to do?
Actually, what is what do Iphysically have to do to grow
sprouts and have an and likeserve my kids enough where they
maybe don't know that I'msneaking this into their food,
but it's actually beneficial tothem.
I'm putting it in a jar withwater.
SPEAKER_00 (29:33):
I mean, I originally started using a mason jar and
cheesecloth.
And then I realized the masonjar was designed for canning and
cheesecloth for cheese.
As an artist, I wanted to designa custom sprouting jar that was
bigger, that was easy to hold,that had a stainless steel
filter and easy to clean, andthat was aesthetically beautiful
(29:58):
to fit on the countertop.
That was the perfect angle.
So I designed this sproutingkit, and that's all you need and
buy the seeds.
So that's where at the sproutingcompany, we're just helping
people make a simple investmentof a hundred bucks, and then
they're growing the sprouts.
And if you buy sprouts in the inthe grocery store, it's five or
(30:20):
six dollars a serving.
So it pays for itself if youwant sprouts.
And our number one customer, youknow, is a mother, family
mother.
And it only takes a couple ofminutes to do it.
Like literally, you keep them onthe countertop, you soak them
overnight, you rinse them in themorning, like literally two
minutes, and then you get aconstant harvest.
(30:42):
And then you throw them in therefrigerator and you always have
fresh food.
And my daughter, she's eatingsprouts all the time.
SPEAKER_02 (30:49):
Okay, so so say I have the kit, I get the seeds
and water, and that sits on thecounter overnight.
SPEAKER_00 (30:55):
And then the next it soaks.
So it's soaked.
What you're doing there isyou're initiating the
germination process, right?
Then you strain out the water,and then twice a day, every 12
hours, you add water and yourinse them.
You're basically flooding themwith water, you're giving them a
little flooding, and then theyjust grow exponentially.
SPEAKER_02 (31:17):
So twice a day for how many days until you eat
them?
SPEAKER_00 (31:20):
Certain sprouts you do for three days, certain, you
know, other ones you do for fivedays.
SPEAKER_02 (31:25):
Okay.
So, like, worst case scenario,the most work that you'll do
with sprouts is putting them inwater at night and then say
every morning at eight, you'rerinsing them for two minutes,
and every evening at eight,you're rinsing them for two
minutes.
That's like the most work.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Yeah, it's it's it's so easy.
SPEAKER_02 (31:43):
Like when I think about my garden that I, you
know, started growing duringCOVID, and I'm just all the
weeding I have to do that Idon't do, and then my husband's
like, why did you spend all themoney on these seeds?
You never weed.
You don't have to worry aboutweeds.
SPEAKER_00 (31:58):
Yeah, no, no weed, no weeds.
I mean, this is something, youknow, for your let me just see
if I can pull this off.
Um, I'm gonna share my screen.
Share my screen, share thiswindow.
Okay, here.
Are you seeing this, Cheryl?
SPEAKER_02 (32:12):
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (32:13):
Okay, so look at this.
You take, you take um a quartercup of seeds, you put it in
there, 35 grams, you add water,you let it soak, and then you
move this out of the way here,and then you know, you just
rinse them twice a day.
And I did this for six days, andyou could see they're starting
to germinate, they're startingto grow.
This is just broccoli sprouts,and then they're turning green,
(32:36):
it's filling up the jar and justgrowing like right in front of
you.
It's like, whoa, whoa.
And like literally that quartercup of seeds is filling up the
whole jar, and now I'mharvesting, and you get 350
grams of sprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (32:49):
Okay, awesome.
So, how long are they are theygood for now that they've
spinned?
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
They're good for several days.
You know, what you would do isthen fill them in the salad
spinner, rinse them off, andthen uh start, you know, put
them in the refrigerator andstart eating them.
But I'm always doing it everyevery couple days, starting a
new batch.
So we always have sprouts.
Always be growing, Cheryl.
SPEAKER_02 (33:10):
I mean, listen, I started sourdough two years ago,
so I feel like I'm ready for thenext step.
SPEAKER_00 (33:17):
Yeah, sourdough is much, much harder than
sprouting.
I only do it once a week.
What's that?
SPEAKER_02 (33:24):
I only make it once a week.
The rest of the bread I make inthe bread maker, it's way
easier.
Okay, well, at least you'redoing it.
SPEAKER_00 (33:30):
At least you're doing it.
How old are your kids?
SPEAKER_02 (33:32):
Well, my daughter's the same age as yours, three and
a half.
She'll be four in August, and myson is seven.
SPEAKER_00 (33:38):
So Wow, and the seven-year-old is watching the
three and a half year old?
SPEAKER_02 (33:41):
Yes, I'm paying him five dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (33:43):
For the whole time?
SPEAKER_02 (33:44):
Yeah, I mean, I don't hear any screaming.
Yeah, yeah.
He's he's pretty mature, I'dhave to say.
I mean, he drives a dirt bike,he drives a four-wheeler, he
drives his dad's tractor.
Um, yeah, he's pretty good.
SPEAKER_00 (33:54):
What work are you?
SPEAKER_02 (33:57):
In between Albany and Vermont.
SPEAKER_00 (33:59):
Okay.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:00):
Yeah, no, he I I guess I don't think about it
because I'm like, yeah, ofcourse you're gonna watch your
sister.
What other choice do we have?
Dad's not here.
But um, yes, I should maybe I'llgive him seven dollars this
time.
SPEAKER_00 (34:12):
What does he do with his money?
SPEAKER_02 (34:14):
Oh my goodness.
He well, so he likes to do theremote control vehicles, but
they're always breaking.
So he takes them apart, findsthe piece that is broken, and
orders the new par and theninstalls the new part and puts
it back together.
SPEAKER_00 (34:28):
Well, have you seen the tin can phone?
No, yeah, it's a it's a Wi-Fi,which is you know, it is what it
is, but it's a phone, dumbphone, that you can only have
whatever numbers on it, they canonly call their friends or their
grandparents.
He has that on his watch.
SPEAKER_02 (34:47):
Oh, well, we do have a home phone, so he's got that
with our pictures on it.
And because I wrote a children'sbook a couple years ago about
let's talk emergencies, liketeaching your kids what to do in
emergency situations.
So I was like, we better get alandline phone if I'm like
promoting this in a book.
And then he does have a watchwhere yes, it's just the numbers
I put in that he can call.
So he can call me.
SPEAKER_00 (35:07):
If he's ever lost in public, he should be calling out
your name, not just mommy.
SPEAKER_02 (35:12):
No, I know that's in the book.
That's in my book.
Yep.
Yep, practice it.
I yeah, you should check it out.
I'll send you the link.
SPEAKER_00 (35:19):
Ebook or printed book?
SPEAKER_02 (35:20):
It's printed, yeah.
It's printed.
I think I think you can get iton ebook too, but I it's yeah, I
did get it printed for um likeKDP.
Yeah, yeah, these things youdon't think of until you have
kids, and you're like, we weneed to know what to do.
But you're right, because Iasked my brother-in-law, he was
a cop.
I was like, what is the onething that kids don't know that
they should know?
And he goes, they never knowtheir parents' names, their real
(35:42):
names.
Yeah.
So that was kind of the Yeah,that was kind of the basis where
I was like, Yeah, that's it.
There's probably a lot of otherstuff that we don't know.
But Doug, this has been amazing.
I am definitely going to do thisbecause I'm ready for my next
step from sourdough, and I'm allabout not needing to depend on
other people to live.
You know, we have switched allof our meats and um our poultry
(36:04):
to local farmers, which is Irecommend anyone do too, you
know, stop going to the grocerystore, try to find someone
local.
And this is just amazing.
It's so much easier than agarden.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (36:15):
Yeah, I mean, you're you're gonna you're gonna love
sprouting and like but like theservice and the work that you're
doing, Cheryl.
You should just stop andacknowledge yourself.
Like you, you having this andyou know, just putting your love
out to the universe.
It's just so beautiful.
And I'm gonna see if my daughterand my wife wanna just be here
(36:36):
for the closing ceremony.
SPEAKER_02 (36:39):
Yeah.
Sweet.
Yeah, and what a greathomeschool experiment to do with
the kids.
We're growing food, and thenthey will have more of an
appreciation about actuallyeating it and the nutrition that
goes into it, especially if youexplain to them what good
nutrition does and all of that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:56):
Here we go.
She's she wants to be calledElsa because she likes frozen.
SPEAKER_02 (37:01):
My daughter as well.
SPEAKER_00 (37:02):
Yeah, yeah.
So Savanna talk to uh this is ahomeschool podcast.
Um, since you're the mother andyou're responsible for her
education, tell sh tell the umCheryl's audience how do you how
do you school her?
SPEAKER_01 (37:14):
Oh well, I found an amazing teacher, and so I
brought her into my house.
So twice a week we have abeautiful pod with kids from the
from here, from around, but verydiverse group hidden here, seven
kids, and then two days a week Is I bring her to a Waldorf
school in nature.
SPEAKER_02 (37:32):
Oh, that's amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (37:33):
Gorgeous park, national park energy.
Amazing.
Leaf, do you like when yourfriends come over and play?
Yes.
Well, that's what I realized.
Like she couldn't just be with,you know, an a a nanny or a
babysitter, she needed herfriends.
SPEAKER_00 (37:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:46):
So that's why I needed to find a teacher who
could handle all those.
SPEAKER_00 (37:50):
And and what a great idea! Yeah.
And why not into a regularclassroom?
SPEAKER_01 (37:54):
Well, I think for me it's very important the way
people speak and how they speakto our children.
I think it's uh it programs ourmind.
And uh and there's a lot ofother things.
But for me, that's I'm a coachand I love I love, you know, how
the mind works and doing thatpositively, constructive.
And so the teacher that I foundreally builds you know.
SPEAKER_00 (38:13):
Have you ever had a breastfeeding mom on your
podcast?
SPEAKER_02 (38:15):
You know, in the homeschool community, it's not
wouldn't surprise anybody.
SPEAKER_01 (38:19):
Well, yeah, that's also beautiful, right?
To to be close to your child andstill be able to breastfeed and
and still be able to to get themto nap at least, you know, maybe
a year ago.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Yeah, I love that.
And I I hope that that idea eveninspires people too, because
like I'm working on a courseright now, uh digital course for
parents who want to homeschoolbut work and they're like, No,
I'd love the homeschool, but Ican't because I work.
But that's such a great idea.
Start just small.
Like, hey, could we if I have towork Mondays and Wednesdays,
(38:49):
maybe we could have a teachercome in.
And if there's seven familiesdoing it and everyone's
contributing money, then youknow that that's great.
SPEAKER_01 (38:57):
Yeah, it's great for the teacher, and you know, she's
not an official teacher, butshe's great, you know, she
really learned just by doing,and she's amazing.
Like they learned such goodrelationship skills from her,
and they just really know how tohold space for their friends and
take care of their friends andtalk to their friends and speak
speak their truth.
Oh, that's so beautiful.
You know, it's so well, it's sovaluable.
(39:18):
So, yeah, I I lovehomeschooling.
I'm from Holland, so I neverthought I would do it.
But then when I came here, I waslike, oh well, that that only
makes sense, but I don't want todo it myself so much.
Yes, I also want time for my ownthoughts and for my own work,
and so yeah, it's beautiful tofind someone who is you know
much better with a group ofkids.
Oh, that's I think this couldalso be inspiring.
(39:40):
It's like I believe you cancreate anything.
Oh, if you believe that it'spossible and it's something that
you want, manifest it, likecreate it, right?
I said I want to find a teacher,and I think a week later I found
this amazing person.
SPEAKER_02 (39:50):
That's so amazing.
Thank you guys so much.
Great information.
Doug, I'm gonna put all of theinformation for the Sprout
Company in the show'sdescription so people can check
that out.
All right, I'm gonna let youhandle that part then.
Where can people find you, Doug?
SPEAKER_00 (40:04):
The Sprouting Company, and I'm Doug Evans on
Instagram and Sprout Wiz onTikTok and the Sprouting Company
on YouTube.
So and we're just putting outinformation all the all the
time.
SPEAKER_02 (40:17):
We're gonna put all of that in the show's
description the correct way.
So I will definitely be checkingthis out because I've been
thinking about it for a longtime now, probably 20 years
since I watched The Truth AboutCancer.
And I was like, I gotta get onthose broccoli sprouts.
SPEAKER_00 (40:31):
Okay, well, take care, Cheryl.
Have a great Monday.
SPEAKER_02 (40:35):
Yes, you too, Doug.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for listening to theHomeschool How to Podcast.
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It's the best way to support thepodcast.
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Until next time, keep learning,keep questioning, and thank you
(40:57):
for your love of the nextgeneration.
I didn't plan to homeschool.
I started asking hard questions,realized how little control
parents actually have, and madethe hard decision to leave a
government job to homeschool mykids.
Now I interview otherhomeschooling parents to learn
how this all works.
I'm Cheryl, and this is theHomeschool How-To podcast.
Let's learn this together.
(00:23):
Welcome.
And with us today, I have DougEvans.
Doug, thank you for being here.
SPEAKER_00 (00:28):
Cheryl, it's such a joy to connect with you.
I love your work.
I love your mission.
And thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_02 (00:35):
Awesome.
So yeah, when you messaged me,it was like, hi, I do sprouts.
We do this for for mythree-year-old and her pot.
And I was like, yeah, come onthe show.
No, no further questions asked.
But you want to know what I havelike this curiosity about
sprouts because two decades ago,I something made me want to um
purchase like the truth aboutcancer series.
(00:57):
I don't know if you've everheard about that from Ty and
Charlene Bollinger.
And they talked a lot abouthealth in it and eating the
right foods.
And sprouts was a huge thingthat they discussed.
So over the years, I've kind ofbeen like, Where are sprouts?
You don't hear about them.
I don't like see them in thestore.
I don't know how to grow them.
So let's first start out withokay, so are you homeschooling?
Do you have kids?
SPEAKER_00 (01:18):
I have a daughter that is three and a half.
She's gonna be four in July, andshe's never been in a structured
classroom.
Most of her time is runningaround naked, you know, in the
yard.
We have a teacher who comes heretwice a week, and then her
friends come, so there's alittle pod, and they just
basically play all day in astructured environment.
(01:40):
And then two days a week, shegoes to the boulders and she has
an outside uh teacher.
So her and her friends runaround outside in the boulders
and they play outside.
So all of her schooling isreally play.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, as it should be, especially at three.
Oh my goodness.
She must be having the time ofher life.
SPEAKER_00 (02:00):
Um we have a we have a we have a trampoline in the
backyard, and we have a lot ofstuff for her to climb on, and
we have hot springs, and she'saquatic.
We're near Joshua Tree at WonderValley Hot Springs in Southern
California.
SPEAKER_02 (02:16):
Wow, beautiful.
So it's a it's a little warmerthere than in New York here
right now, right?
SPEAKER_00 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:22):
Okay, so what even made you decide to not go the
traditional schooling route?
Because she would typically bein like a preschool right now.
SPEAKER_00 (02:29):
I mean, like classrooms, like off-gassing
VOCs, you know, all sorts offorced medical tyranny on her
that we just want her to be akid.
We want her to be like ananimal.
What's a VOC?
Volatile organic compounds.
These are the gases that comeout of tiles and paint and
(02:51):
carpets and plastics.
SPEAKER_02 (02:54):
Wow.
So I've never even heard of thatterm.
And I mean, I know they're notgood to be around, but it's like
there's a there's a reason tostay away, especially as a young
kid.
SPEAKER_00 (03:03):
Probably allergies and of course.
Like you want you want kids tobe outside, you want them to
play, you want them to not likeeven just heating and air
conditioning is a challenge,right?
Free on or free on alternativesand stabilizing their body at 68
degrees, 365 days a year.
(03:24):
No, let them, you know, let themhave some natural stressors.
SPEAKER_02 (03:28):
Very true.
I have heard a little bit aboutthat, and that that would be a
cool rabbit hole to go down.
Like what what it really isdoing to our body to be at such
a comfortable temperature allyear long.
SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
We know what it does.
It just makes us weak.
It makes us incapable of dealingwith circumstances outside of
that, right?
Which is the extreme version ofthat, right?
The extreme is like JessieItzler, cold plunge, you know,
sauna, right?
Zero degrees to 200 degrees.
Like the people are doing it.
(04:01):
And that's great.
So they're forcing the stressingof the environment.
SPEAKER_02 (04:05):
But is that healthy for your body though?
SPEAKER_00 (04:08):
Yeah, it creates a hermetic response where the body
needs to respond.
So if you get like my daughterloves the cold plunge, right?
And she goes into the coldplunge, her body needs to
respond.
And so it it raises the wholeresponse system to generate
heat.
So you don't want to leave herin there to freeze, right?
(04:28):
But she's so cute.
Like maybe at the end she maywalk in and say, Leaf, do you
like the her name is Leaf,L-E-A-F.
Do you like the cold?
And she goes, Cold neverbothered me anyway.
But can like a zoom frozencharacter.
It's very good.
Like in Europe, they put all thekids, like in Denmark, in
(04:49):
strollers outside in the winterto take their naps.
SPEAKER_02 (04:53):
I have heard that.
I've I think I heard it onOprah, and then I stopped
believing in Oprah.
So all their all her credibilitywent out the window for that.
But that's so interesting.
SPEAKER_00 (05:02):
Wait, can I just ask what what what what happened
with Oprah?
SPEAKER_02 (05:06):
Do we have the time?
So, no, but she, I mean, she's Iall right.
Well, do I want to sound like acrazy conspiracy theorist or
just like like this is what'sout in the news is Cheryl.
SPEAKER_00 (05:18):
Let me let me just share with you that I haven't
read a newspaper or TV, we haveno TV or watched the news in
over two decades.
SPEAKER_02 (05:28):
Well, that's amazing.
So that's amazing.
So you don't even know what'shappening outside.
SPEAKER_00 (05:33):
No, I have no no idea.
Because for me, like my missionis feed the world sprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (05:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (05:39):
Like I want to produce content that connects
with people, inspires people,and all the other stuff is a
distraction.
Like I remember watching, youknow, a prior war, and I was
just glued to the TV.
And you know, it wasn't helpfulfor me.
SPEAKER_02 (05:55):
No, and that's exactly what they wanted from it
was people to just be glued andin fear in constant fight or
flight, but not in the healthykind.
And I'm in bliss.
Yeah.
So Oprah, well, she happens tohave a lot of friends who happen
to be maybe pedophiles, and it'sand then she has a lot of money
that's funneling to Haiti, andwhere a lot of children
(06:18):
supposedly go missing forthings.
And in that school that shebuilt in Haiti, a lot of girls
in that school were physicallyassaulted by people that worked
in the school.
So it's just like, you know,there's a lot of coincidences
there.
So I just stopped watching her.
SPEAKER_00 (06:34):
Yeah.
But yeah, you gotta, I mean, wehave to take a stand for the
kids, right?
We have to take a stand for thekids.
And I think we also, as leaders,need to get to the root of like
what's really happening becauseI don't believe anything that
they say on the news.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
Build people up and then theytear them down.
(06:56):
And like, you know, I have athree-year-old, like I take a
bullet for my daughter, right?
There's no question about that.
And so I'm very protective and Ilook at all people, like I want
to protect all people from this.
And so that's let's go on withthe the homeschool.
SPEAKER_02 (07:13):
Yeah, but you know, I do have a question for you
with not having TV and stuff,and you said you're you're in
California though.
So what was COVID like for youif you didn't have a TV and you
really had this sort ofdisconnect from the outside
world?
Do you do you and your spouselike work in the office setting?
We don't really so you're like,we don't we had no idea COVID
happened.
You were like, you and the Amishhad no idea.
SPEAKER_00 (07:35):
Yeah, no, I mean there was no social distancing,
no masks.
You know, we would go to townand like they'd say you need to
wear a mask, and we're like,what?
And so we'd we might get thrownout of the supermarket if we
went, but you know, we had 200pounds of organic sprouting
(07:55):
seeds and jars.
And so while people werefighting over macaroni and
cheese and Coca-Cola and toiletpaper, you know, we were using a
bidet and eating sprouts and andwe were just fine.
Like, like really don't have anyCOVID trauma.
Our daughter doesn't have anyCOVID trauma.
(08:17):
You know, it it wasn't evencoincidentally.
Now that you mentioned COVID, Idid a podcast yesterday with Dr.
Peter McCullough.
Wow, he's a hero.
I was a guest on his podcast.
Congratulations.
Yeah, he's a big sprouter.
Yeah.
So he knows about sprouts andthe like.
And we talked about theanti-inflammatory and preventing
(08:39):
disease.
And so, you know, I did read hispapers, and so I was familiar
with with him, which was very,very powerful.
So I'm not like total head inthe sand, but I have layers of
filter that that prevent me fromgoing down like doom scrolling.
Yeah.
(09:00):
Everything is filtered for me.
Like if you said something likeI'm not gonna go down, you know,
the Oprah, you know, experience,like, you know, for me, and it's
interesting what what you saidon that, I've read many of
Oprah's books, right?
And like one of the things thatthat I remember every and it it
affects me every day, is whensomeone is wild or crazy or
(09:23):
angry or rageous, most peoplesay, Well, what's wrong with
you?
What's wrong with them?
And in my voice, I hear Oprahsaying, What happened to them?
SPEAKER_02 (09:33):
Yeah.
What happened to them?
I I love Oprah too.
I have I was a super soul Sundaywatcher every week, but and it
was, you know, going down thecrazy rabbit holes I went down.
Um, and I know everything.
You can't believe everythingthat you hear, whatever.
You have to make sense of like,does this make sense or does
this not?
And her and like Ellen were veryhard.
(09:56):
Tom Hanks were very hard for meto grapple with, like, no, these
are people I feel like I knowand I trust.
Like they'd be like my aunts oruncles.
But I had to like wrap my headaround, like, there's people in
the live in like a differentculture.
They might be in America, butlike, I don't know if it's the
Hollywood, the politician, orjust anybody with a certain
amount of money and power, likelevel that they are, they live
(10:18):
in almost a different culturethan we do, and they see things
differently.
And I don't know, it's yeah, II'd stay out of that.
Stay out of that.
SPEAKER_00 (10:26):
Yeah, like I mean, look, what what I what I can
say, right, is you know, there'sthere's people that are in the
e-files.
I don't even want to say that.
There's people that are in thee-files.
Say whatever you want here,right?
But there are people that are inthe e-files, and some of them,
like aside from them being inthe e-files, did a lot of good
(10:48):
work, right?
And then there was somethingabout this charismatic charlatan
pedophile, money, cars, planesthat appealed to people's desire
for X, like for X.
And, you know, so it's hard tolook at, you know, like we all
(11:10):
have shadow.
Now you look like Mary Poppins,Cheryl.
So like I can't imagine youdoing anything bad, right?
Anything ever, like just ever.
Like, I'm I'm sure you wouldn'teven jaywalk in New York City in
the middle of the night with nocars coming.
Like you're probably waiting forthe for the light to turn,
(11:31):
right?
But everybody else, other thanCheryl, probably has done
something that that they regret,gives them a pit in the stomach
or or something.
And so I want to believe, likecertain people who've made
mistakes in life and admitted ithave been redeemed.
Like Mike Tyson, like went tojail for rape, right?
(11:55):
Paid the price, came out, andnow he's the hero.
Like everybody, maybe you don't,but most people like I don't
follow him, love and accept MikeTyson, you know, as a champion,
you know, and because he paidthe price.
Mike Tyson paid the price,right?
He did something wrong, he paidthe price.
Mike Milken, like, went to jailfor insider trading, paid the
(12:18):
price, and is now, you know, ahonorable contributing member of
society, right?
Martha Stewart, right, went tojail and didn't get canceled
because she paid the price.
So I think when people pay theprice, so they can go.
The people who hide, who dosomething wrong and hide or in
denial, that's when it's hard tomake a comeback because they
(12:41):
don't own up to the mistakesthat they've made.
Now, Cheryl, have you made anymistakes?
SPEAKER_02 (12:46):
I have.
You know, I jaywalked when wevisited Florida a couple weeks
ago.
And it's funny because I had toask my friend's permission.
I was like, she was f I'm fromNew York, where you aren't
supposed to jaywalk.
And we were in Florida and Ilike called her up because she
was meeting us, and I said, Arewe allowed to jaywalk here?
She's like, Yeah, because thebeach was like right across from
where we were staying.
(13:07):
Right.
But the crosswalks were like,you had to go half a mile that
way or half a mile that way.
But I did, I had to ask herpermission.
Am I gonna be in trouble?
But but yeah, of course, ofcourse.
You know what I think it is too,the politicians and the people
in Hollywood?
I don't even know if there's illintent to start with.
I think it's like, hey, youyou're trying to make it in the
big leagues, like whether it be,you know, in in the political
(13:29):
realm or in Hollywood or musicor whatever.
And it's like, oh yeah, you findyourself at this gathering or a
party or someone's house, andthen there's like like Epstein
did, there's this system oflike, oh, get them under the
influence of something and oncamera doing something that they
don't want others to know about,but they're under the influence
and not making their own, youknow, good judgment calls.
(13:51):
And then I think that's how alot of that Epstein stuff got so
carried away.
You know, yeah, yeah.
I mean, and then it's likeyou're blackmailed, you're
stuck.
SPEAKER_00 (13:59):
Yeah.
Well, let's stay out of it.
Let's stay with the sprouts andyou know, out of it.
SPEAKER_02 (14:03):
So, so lesson of all of that is you can look at this
crazy world and be like, okay,do I want to send my kids into
the system or do I want to findways to live self-sustainably?
Because we can't changeHollywood, we can't change the
politicians other than maybelocally you can change some
politicians.
But what can we do to make ourlives more self-sustainable, to
(14:24):
not depend on the government forwhether it be, you know, for
food, for even in a naturaldisaster, like a hurricane or
something.
I don't want to have to dependon FEMA to come rescue my
family.
I want to be able to do that.
And I think sprouts, it soundslike from what I've researched,
is a very good way to do that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:44):
Yeah.
I mean, look, look, you askedwhy everyone isn't sprouting.
It's because of Fruit Loops andPop-Tarts, right?
It's because the food system isengineered for long shelf life,
high margins, high processing.
So everything that's not that,you know, there's no market for
it.
So as a result, right, in 2026,where sprouts are the most
(15:08):
nutrient-dense food on theplanet, up to a hundred times
more nutrient-dense than maturevegetables.
Fresher because you're growingthem on your countertop, like
right here.
I'm growing my sprouts likeright here, right?
In a jar.
There's no national orinternational sprouting
companies, period.
Period.
How is that possible?
(15:29):
Short shelf life, low margins,they require refrigerated
transportation, plasticpackaging.
So wherever sprouts are sold, itis a local or regional business
at best.
And okay, so how quick?
Yeah, okay, go ahead.
Yeah, so my insight was I don'twant to sell sprouts that are
perishable.
(15:49):
Like I lived, you know, startingin 2017, when I started to write
the Sprout Book, and I'm very,very proud of my book, The
Sprout Book, became a nationalbestseller, almost a hundred
thousand copies sold.
Amazing.
When major publisher, St.
Martin's McMillan, when I wrotethe book, I had just completed
(16:12):
living in one cubic foot withsix jars.
I was growing thousands ofcalories a day of sprouts.
Wow.
And I was getting, I thoughtinitially, like maybe this was
too good to be true.
So I called up Dr.
Oz, Dr.
Dean Ornish, Dr.
Axe, Dr.
Joel Furman, Dr.
(16:33):
Joel Kahn, Dr.
Alan Goldhammer, and all ofthese doctors had one thing in
common, right?
Even though some were keto, somewere Dr.
Mark Hyman, functional medicine,they all had their own shtick.
What they all had in common isthey all loved sprouts.
They were all like sprouters.
And I said, hey, why?
(16:54):
And the interviews that I didwith them ended up being like
the basis of my book proposal.
So I went to the publisher and Iwent and I said, hey, I want to
write a book on sprouts.
And the the publisher was like,there's no market for sprouts.
This is a non-category.
And I was like, no, no, DIY isbig, people are fermenting,
(17:16):
they're growing mushrooms.
And mark my words, I'm going tocreate a movement about growing
sprouts because it's too goodthat you can take, you know, a
quarter cup of seeds, put themin a jar, and get a full jar of
sprouts in five days withoutsoil, sunshine, or fertilizer.
(17:36):
Like it's just too good.
It's so good.
And that's the essence of it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:40):
Did our ancestors do this?
SPEAKER_00 (17:42):
They've been sprouting in cultures like
Japan, Korea, China, India.
They've been sprouting since thebeginning of time.
Sprouts are the originalancestral food, right?
Seeds germinate, grow intovegetable.
There would be no grass-fed cowsif they weren't eating sprouted
(18:06):
grass, right?
So everything begins with aseed.
All nutrition of all landanimals, all amino acids, come
from sprouted seeds.
So when I see like an apple or Isee a head of broccoli, those
are just mature sprouts in mymind.
And it's so multiplicative,combinatorial, exponential that
(18:30):
one seed, when sprouted, willgrow into like a five-pound head
of broccoli.
And if you let it continue togrow, it will flower and then it
will fruit.
And then that one seed willmultiply into a thousand more
seeds.
So, and when you sprout a seed,like one seed can make weigh,
like, for example, like a gram,it will turn into 10 grams.
(18:53):
So it's it's exponential.
SPEAKER_02 (18:55):
Okay, so is there a difference between a seed
growing into broccoli and thenthis is that the same seed?
Same seed that's gonna be thesprout that you would eat that
has more nutrients than the headof broccoli.
SPEAKER_00 (19:07):
Well, yeah, the reason why is at the seed stage,
it's concentrated.
So you're getting themaristomatic stem cells of the
plants in the seed stage.
So as the plant gets bigger,it's getting more water, it's
getting more fiber, it's gettingmore vitamin C.
But the core concentratedelements, like you, you know,
(19:28):
you when you see a baby, thebaby, you know, grows into its
eyes, right?
The eyes come out big and thenthe body grows into it.
Have you seen that?
I guess I never noticed, butsure.
Yeah, well, just a like you lookat it.
SPEAKER_02 (19:42):
All that's going through my mind though is from
Jerry Maguire, the little kidgoing, the human head weighs
eight pounds.
SPEAKER_00 (19:48):
So, so the thing is at the at the small level, it's
concentrated and potent andvaluable and fresh.
And you're in New York, right?
The average lettuce that you'reeating in New York is coming
from California, right?
3,000 miles across the country,right?
Over a two-week period.
And once it's cut away from theroot system, right, it's
(20:09):
degrading, it's diminishing.
So to me, I'm a fresh guy.
I want fresh.
And turns out with sprouts, likeI just nailed it.
It was like, boom, this is whatwe all can eat.
And the fact that I livedexclusively on sprouts for 30
days at a time, and I had energyand vitality.
And Cheryl, I'm gonna be 60years old in three months.
(20:31):
Wow.
And I'm at like the optimumphysical, mental, spiritual, you
know, position.
Like I just, every aspect of mylife is flowing because I have
my authentic purpose.
Like to sh I'm the voice ofSprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (20:45):
Okay, so what got you into Sprouts in the first
place?
After three years ofinterviewing homeschooling
families, I realized howoverwhelming it can be to piece
everything together.
So I took the best advice, tips,questions, and resources that
I've learned along the way andput them into one practical
ebook.
If you're looking for a clearstarting point, you'll find the
(21:06):
link in this show's description.
SPEAKER_00 (21:12):
So I moved to Wonder Valley Hot Springs in 2018, full
time.
There was not only this anenvironmental desert, right?
Joshua Tree is a desert, it wasalso a food desert.
No farmers markets, no healthfood stores, no restaurants, and
I didn't want to go to thegrocery store to buy overpriced
(21:34):
things that were in bags andboxes and jars and cans.
So I had the fantasy ofhomesteading, homeschooling.
So, and turns out it's reallyhard to grow food unless it's
sprouts, and sprouts it's likeeasy.
So I got a few jars, I startedto sprout, and then like I
didn't have to leave.
(21:55):
I was getting all my nutrients,and then so I'm living on the
sprouts, I'm writing the Sproutbook, you know, I'm living, you
know, just this happy life.
And then my book was done.
My book published April 2020,right in the beginning of COVID.
And so, you know, I didn't haveto leave.
I was playing on doing a booktour, going to New York, Barnes
(22:16):
and Noble, Union Square, andeverything got canceled.
So I was like, okay, you know, Iwas whatever.
Six years ago, I was 55, youknow, 53 years old or whatever.
I was like, oh, I gotta go ontosocial media.
So I'm like cold calling,getting onto podcasts, started
my Instagram account, started myTikTok.
(22:38):
Fast forward now, I have likeover 500,000 followers across my
platforms, and you know, I'msharing this gospel sprouting.
Amazing.
SPEAKER_02 (22:49):
Okay, so if I wanted to start growing sprouts, it
sounds like they've you saidthey have a five-day shelf life.
So are you constantly like everyday putting in a couple more
seeds?
SPEAKER_00 (22:59):
Always growing.
SPEAKER_02 (23:00):
Always putting in a couple more seeds.
Yeah.
Give me could you give me my oneweek to-do list if I want to
have sprouts every day for meand my kids?
SPEAKER_00 (23:09):
Go to thesproutingcompany.com.
There are bundles.
You could I always recommend thedouble sprouter so you could
have two jars growing at alltimes, so you're always eating.
And the thing about sprouts isin the beginning, I thought that
they were a garnish or a sidedish.
And now sprouts are the centerof my plate.
Like I eat entire sprout salads.
(23:32):
I don't use protein powders andsmoothies.
I throw sprouts in there.
I add them to wraps, to soups,to entrees, to salads.
Like sprouts are everywherebecause in my heart and in my
head, I know these are thefreshest, most nutrient-dense
foods, and they're they'recrispy and they're crunchy and
(23:53):
they're alive.
So when you said, did ourancestors sprout?
Yeah, they've been sproutingthrough.
But then when the industrializedrevolution came and you're
buying produce from thesupermarket, I was just watching
uh my friend Cash talking abouthow the founder of Moderna
started another um company to beable to put mRNA vaccines in
(24:18):
spray that they're spraying onproduce to deliver vaccines to
the produce that you eat.
Jesus.
How is that legal?
SPEAKER_02 (24:25):
How?
I know it's happening.
I know it's happening, but howis that legal?
I mean, I don't know.
You can't jaywalk, but you canspray mRNA on people's feet.
SPEAKER_00 (24:35):
I mean, it's it's all like this, you know,
politics.
That's where I want to beresponsible for my own, you
know, supply and growing.
So it's like what what I eat,what my family eats, you know,
what your audience eats issprouting.
So now, like, you know, we have,you know, it's tens of thousands
of people are buying thesesprouting kits, they're buying
(24:55):
the seeds, it's just going andthey're shifting away, like
they're tuning in to freshconsciousness.
They're tuning in to everythingthat they put in their mouth is
a life or death decision.
SPEAKER_02 (25:08):
Yeah, I mean, thank goodness for RFK Jr.
in there because that probablyhelped promote, you know, your
mission as well.
Because people really didn't paymuch attention to it before.
I hope they are now.
SPEAKER_00 (25:20):
Yeah, I mean, look, I I'm non-political.
Like, I I've met many of thesepeople.
I don't know, like, I reallydon't know.
What I do know is that likesprouts are better than
processed food.
There's no dyes, there's noadditives, and there's also no
saturated fat.
So, you know, the the foodpyramid to me could be 100%
(25:42):
sprouts.
Like it just could be.
SPEAKER_02 (25:44):
So, what kind of sprouts are you eating?
Like, what are they?
For someone that's never evenprobably eaten one.
SPEAKER_00 (25:50):
Like, you know, one of the easiest things, this is
like a lentil sprout.
You know, I've been snacking onthese all day.
Alfalfa sprouts, broccolisprouts, radish is very like
it's daikon rodish, so it hasthe spiciness.
Green peas are sweet, mung beansare protein-oriented, garbanzo
beans are like totally like wewe make hummus where we just
(26:14):
take sprouted garbanzo beans andwe blend them with fresh
homemade sauerkraut and we makeit into a hummus.
And so the the idea of knowingyour ingredients.
So the the basically broccoli,radish, clover, alfalfa, mung
beans, lentils, green peas, andgarbanzo beans are like the
(26:37):
core, like little sweet thatthat is more than enough.
And then you could add pestosauce, marinara sauce, um, you
know, oil and vinegar, like youknow, srirachi, like whatever
you want to add onto it, and thesprout the sprouts will pick up
that flavor on their own.
SPEAKER_02 (26:56):
They're small, right?
Like, are you eating a lot ofsprouts to eat a whole salad?
SPEAKER_00 (27:01):
You know, a quarter cup of seeds, right?
About 40 grams of seeds willfill up a whole jar, 400 grams,
which is approximately fivecups.
So, and a cup is a serving.
So you can get from one jar ofsprouts, you get five or six
serving.
So for me, like I'm like thesprouts guy.
(27:24):
I'll eat a lot of sprouts, so Ihave many jars going, but from a
medicinal level, you know, youcould just have one cup and get
a great dose.
It's a great prebiotic, it'sgreat for the microbiome, it's
soluble, insoluble fiber,contains vitamin A, vitamin B,
vitamin C, vitamin K, folate,iron, like and it's
(27:48):
enzymatically active in alive.
And every sprout contains everyamino acid to form complete
protein.
Like, so so this information hasbeen suppressed.
And also, sprouts areanti-inflammatory, they help
regulate insulin levels ondiabetics, you know, they can
(28:09):
create heat shock proteins thatreduce symptoms of you know all
sorts of brain, you know,malfunctions.
So if there was a panacea, theymight cure cancer.
Yeah, yeah.
Chemoprotective, there'sprobably more than 2,000
peer-reviewed published studieson how sprouts, you know, can do
(28:31):
all the things from cancer toanti-inflammatory to reducing
oxidative stress to regulatingthe insulin levels, you know,
and diabetics.
There's so much.
And how the sprouts work is justharmonious with nature.
They're water-based, high fiber.
We have all this weightmanagement issues, like so many,
(28:52):
like right now, most of America,and I say that sincerely, most
of America is overweight orobese.
Sprouts are naturally weightloss foods, fat loss foods,
because they're high nutrient,low fat, low calorie.
So what do you think happens ifyou're filling up on food that
is high fiber, high nutrient,low fat, low calorie?
(29:13):
You're naturally just gonna loseweight.
SPEAKER_02 (29:15):
Okay, but for the busy mom that's homeschooling
and maybe working too, what do Ihave to do?
Actually, what is what do Iphysically have to do to grow
sprouts and have an and likeserve my kids enough where they
maybe don't know that I'msneaking this into their food,
but it's actually beneficial tothem.
I'm putting it in a jar withwater.
SPEAKER_00 (29:33):
I mean, I originally started using a mason jar and
cheesecloth.
And then I realized the masonjar was designed for canning and
cheesecloth for cheese.
As an artist, I wanted to designa custom sprouting jar that was
bigger, that was easy to hold,that had a stainless steel
filter and easy to clean, andthat was aesthetically beautiful
(29:58):
to fit on the countertop.
That was the perfect angle.
So I designed this sproutingkit, and that's all you need and
buy the seeds.
So that's where at the sproutingcompany, we're just helping
people make a simple investmentof a hundred bucks, and then
they're growing the sprouts.
And if you buy sprouts in the inthe grocery store, it's five or
(30:20):
six dollars a serving.
So it pays for itself if youwant sprouts.
And our number one customer, youknow, is a mother, family
mother.
And it only takes a couple ofminutes to do it.
Like literally, you keep them onthe countertop, you soak them
overnight, you rinse them in themorning, like literally two
minutes, and then you get aconstant harvest.
(30:42):
And then you throw them in therefrigerator and you always have
fresh food.
And my daughter, she's eatingsprouts all the time.
SPEAKER_02 (30:49):
Okay, so so say I have the kit, I get the seeds
and water, and that sits on thecounter overnight.
SPEAKER_00 (30:55):
And then the next it soaks.
So it's soaked.
What you're doing there isyou're initiating the
germination process, right?
Then you strain out the water,and then twice a day, every 12
hours, you add water and yourinse them.
You're basically flooding themwith water, you're giving them a
little flooding, and then theyjust grow exponentially.
SPEAKER_02 (31:17):
So twice a day for how many days until you eat
them?
SPEAKER_00 (31:20):
Certain sprouts you do for three days, certain, you
know, other ones you do for fivedays.
SPEAKER_02 (31:25):
Okay.
So, like, worst case scenario,the most work that you'll do
with sprouts is putting them inwater at night and then say
every morning at eight, you'rerinsing them for two minutes,
and every evening at eight,you're rinsing them for two
minutes.
That's like the most work.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Yeah, it's it's it's so easy.
SPEAKER_02 (31:43):
Like when I think about my garden that I, you
know, started growing duringCOVID, and I'm just all the
weeding I have to do that Idon't do, and then my husband's
like, why did you spend all themoney on these seeds?
You never weed.
You don't have to worry aboutweeds.
SPEAKER_00 (31:58):
Yeah, no, no weed, no weeds.
I mean, this is something, youknow, for your let me just see
if I can pull this off.
Um, I'm gonna share my screen.
Share my screen, share thiswindow.
Okay, here.
Are you seeing this, Cheryl?
SPEAKER_02 (32:12):
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00 (32:13):
Okay, so look at this.
You take, you take um a quartercup of seeds, you put it in
there, 35 grams, you add water,you let it soak, and then you
move this out of the way here,and then you know, you just
rinse them twice a day.
And I did this for six days, andyou could see they're starting
to germinate, they're startingto grow.
This is just broccoli sprouts,and then they're turning green,
(32:36):
it's filling up the jar and justgrowing like right in front of
you.
It's like, whoa, whoa.
And like literally that quartercup of seeds is filling up the
whole jar, and now I'mharvesting, and you get 350
grams of sprouts.
SPEAKER_02 (32:49):
Okay, awesome.
So, how long are they are theygood for now that they've
spinned?
SPEAKER_00 (32:53):
They're good for several days.
You know, what you would do isthen fill them in the salad
spinner, rinse them off, andthen uh start, you know, put
them in the refrigerator andstart eating them.
But I'm always doing it everyevery couple days, starting a
new batch.
So we always have sprouts.
Always be growing, Cheryl.
SPEAKER_02 (33:10):
I mean, listen, I started sourdough two years ago,
so I feel like I'm ready for thenext step.
SPEAKER_00 (33:17):
Yeah, sourdough is much, much harder than
sprouting.
I only do it once a week.
What's that?
SPEAKER_02 (33:24):
I only make it once a week.
The rest of the bread I make inthe bread maker, it's way
easier.
Okay, well, at least you'redoing it.
SPEAKER_00 (33:30):
At least you're doing it.
How old are your kids?
SPEAKER_02 (33:32):
Well, my daughter's the same age as yours, three and
a half.
She'll be four in August, and myson is seven.
SPEAKER_00 (33:38):
So Wow, and the seven-year-old is watching the
three and a half year old?
SPEAKER_02 (33:41):
Yes, I'm paying him five dollars.
SPEAKER_00 (33:43):
For the whole time?
SPEAKER_02 (33:44):
Yeah, I mean, I don't hear any screaming.
Yeah, yeah.
He's he's pretty mature, I'dhave to say.
I mean, he drives a dirt bike,he drives a four-wheeler, he
drives his dad's tractor.
Um, yeah, he's pretty good.
SPEAKER_00 (33:54):
What work are you?
SPEAKER_02 (33:57):
In between Albany and Vermont.
SPEAKER_00 (33:59):
Okay.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:00):
Yeah, no, he I I guess I don't think about it
because I'm like, yeah, ofcourse you're gonna watch your
sister.
What other choice do we have?
Dad's not here.
But um, yes, I should maybe I'llgive him seven dollars this
time.
SPEAKER_00 (34:12):
What does he do with his money?
SPEAKER_02 (34:14):
Oh my goodness.
He well, so he likes to do theremote control vehicles, but
they're always breaking.
So he takes them apart, findsthe piece that is broken, and
orders the new par and theninstalls the new part and puts
it back together.
SPEAKER_00 (34:28):
Well, have you seen the tin can phone?
No, yeah, it's a it's a Wi-Fi,which is you know, it is what it
is, but it's a phone, dumbphone, that you can only have
whatever numbers on it, they canonly call their friends or their
grandparents.
He has that on his watch.
SPEAKER_02 (34:47):
Oh, well, we do have a home phone, so he's got that
with our pictures on it.
And because I wrote a children'sbook a couple years ago about
let's talk emergencies, liketeaching your kids what to do in
emergency situations.
So I was like, we better get alandline phone if I'm like
promoting this in a book.
And then he does have a watchwhere yes, it's just the numbers
I put in that he can call.
So he can call me.
SPEAKER_00 (35:07):
If he's ever lost in public, he should be calling out
your name, not just mommy.
SPEAKER_02 (35:12):
No, I know that's in the book.
That's in my book.
Yep.
Yep, practice it.
I yeah, you should check it out.
I'll send you the link.
SPEAKER_00 (35:19):
Ebook or printed book?
SPEAKER_02 (35:20):
It's printed, yeah.
It's printed.
I think I think you can get iton ebook too, but I it's yeah, I
did get it printed for um likeKDP.
Yeah, yeah, these things youdon't think of until you have
kids, and you're like, we weneed to know what to do.
But you're right, because Iasked my brother-in-law, he was
a cop.
I was like, what is the onething that kids don't know that
they should know?
And he goes, they never knowtheir parents' names, their real
(35:42):
names.
Yeah.
So that was kind of the Yeah,that was kind of the basis where
I was like, Yeah, that's it.
There's probably a lot of otherstuff that we don't know.
But Doug, this has been amazing.
I am definitely going to do thisbecause I'm ready for my next
step from sourdough, and I'm allabout not needing to depend on
other people to live.
You know, we have switched allof our meats and um our poultry
(36:04):
to local farmers, which is Irecommend anyone do too, you
know, stop going to the grocerystore, try to find someone
local.
And this is just amazing.
It's so much easier than agarden.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (36:15):
Yeah, I mean, you're you're gonna you're gonna love
sprouting and like but like theservice and the work that you're
doing, Cheryl.
You should just stop andacknowledge yourself.
Like you, you having this andyou know, just putting your love
out to the universe.
It's just so beautiful.
And I'm gonna see if my daughterand my wife wanna just be here
(36:36):
for the closing ceremony.
SPEAKER_02 (36:39):
Yeah.
Sweet.
Yeah, and what a greathomeschool experiment to do with
the kids.
We're growing food, and thenthey will have more of an
appreciation about actuallyeating it and the nutrition that
goes into it, especially if youexplain to them what good
nutrition does and all of that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:56):
Here we go.
She's she wants to be calledElsa because she likes frozen.
SPEAKER_02 (37:01):
My daughter as well.
SPEAKER_00 (37:02):
Yeah, yeah.
So Savanna talk to uh this is ahomeschool podcast.
Um, since you're the mother andyou're responsible for her
education, tell sh tell the umCheryl's audience how do you how
do you school her?
SPEAKER_01 (37:14):
Oh well, I found an amazing teacher, and so I
brought her into my house.
So twice a week we have abeautiful pod with kids from the
from here, from around, but verydiverse group hidden here, seven
kids, and then two days a week Is I bring her to a Waldorf
school in nature.
SPEAKER_02 (37:32):
Oh, that's amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (37:33):
Gorgeous park, national park energy.
Amazing.
Leaf, do you like when yourfriends come over and play?
Yes.
Well, that's what I realized.
Like she couldn't just be with,you know, an a a nanny or a
babysitter, she needed herfriends.
SPEAKER_00 (37:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:46):
So that's why I needed to find a teacher who
could handle all those.
SPEAKER_00 (37:50):
And and what a great idea! Yeah.
And why not into a regularclassroom?
SPEAKER_01 (37:54):
Well, I think for me it's very important the way
people speak and how they speakto our children.
I think it's uh it programs ourmind.
And uh and there's a lot ofother things.
But for me, that's I'm a coachand I love I love, you know, how
the mind works and doing thatpositively, constructive.
And so the teacher that I foundreally builds you know.
SPEAKER_00 (38:13):
Have you ever had a breastfeeding mom on your
podcast?
SPEAKER_02 (38:15):
You know, in the homeschool community, it's not
wouldn't surprise anybody.
SPEAKER_01 (38:19):
Well, yeah, that's also beautiful, right?
To to be close to your child andstill be able to breastfeed and
and still be able to to get themto nap at least, you know, maybe
a year ago.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Yeah, I love that.
And I I hope that that idea eveninspires people too, because
like I'm working on a courseright now, uh digital course for
parents who want to homeschoolbut work and they're like, No,
I'd love the homeschool, but Ican't because I work.
But that's such a great idea.
Start just small.
Like, hey, could we if I have towork Mondays and Wednesdays,
(38:49):
maybe we could have a teachercome in.
And if there's seven familiesdoing it and everyone's
contributing money, then youknow that that's great.
SPEAKER_01 (38:57):
Yeah, it's great for the teacher, and you know, she's
not an official teacher, butshe's great, you know, she
really learned just by doing,and she's amazing.
Like they learned such goodrelationship skills from her,
and they just really know how tohold space for their friends and
take care of their friends andtalk to their friends and speak
speak their truth.
Oh, that's so beautiful.
You know, it's so well, it's sovaluable.
(39:18):
So, yeah, I I lovehomeschooling.
I'm from Holland, so I neverthought I would do it.
But then when I came here, I waslike, oh well, that that only
makes sense, but I don't want todo it myself so much.
Yes, I also want time for my ownthoughts and for my own work,
and so yeah, it's beautiful tofind someone who is you know
much better with a group ofkids.
Oh, that's I think this couldalso be inspiring.
(39:40):
It's like I believe you cancreate anything.
Oh, if you believe that it'spossible and it's something that
you want, manifest it, likecreate it, right?
I said I want to find a teacher,and I think a week later I found
this amazing person.
SPEAKER_02 (39:50):
That's so amazing.
Thank you guys so much.
Great information.
Doug, I'm gonna put all of theinformation for the Sprout
Company in the show'sdescription so people can check
that out.
All right, I'm gonna let youhandle that part then.
Where can people find you, Doug?
SPEAKER_00 (40:04):
The Sprouting Company, and I'm Doug Evans on
Instagram and Sprout Wiz onTikTok and the Sprouting Company
on YouTube.
So and we're just putting outinformation all the all the
time.
SPEAKER_02 (40:17):
We're gonna put all of that in the show's
description the correct way.
So I will definitely be checkingthis out because I've been
thinking about it for a longtime now, probably 20 years
since I watched The Truth AboutCancer.
And I was like, I gotta get onthose broccoli sprouts.
SPEAKER_00 (40:31):
Okay, well, take care, Cheryl.
Have a great Monday.
SPEAKER_02 (40:35):
Yes, you too, Doug.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for listening to theHomeschool How to Podcast.
If today's episode helped you,please be sure to follow the
show and leave a review.
It's the best way to support thepodcast.
And if you're just gettingstarted or need a reset, head to
thehomeschoolhowtu.com and grabmy free 30-day homeschool quick
start guide.
Until next time, keep learning,keep questioning, and thank you
(40:57):
for your love of the nextgeneration.
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