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1. Intro: spirulina is undeniably the food of the future. With its high protein and antioxidant content, this algae has one of the most interesting nutritional profile of all. And it is the secret to NASA that even started using it for its Mars missions or numerous NGOs that use it actively to save Children from malnutrition. What if you started growing your own superfood right now in your kitchen, so you always have access to the freshest nutrients? First thing in the morning when you wake up having fresh spirulina hand is a completely different experience when compared to the drive forms of it. It is refreshing, and most importantly, it doesn't have any fishy smell or taste at all. That makes it perfect to be included in your favorite recipes, to give them an extra boost in nutritional value. In this set of videos, I'll show you how to set up a simple and cost effective system to start growing your own spirulina right in your kitchen. You'll gain access to all the tips and techniques to harvest the most clean and nutrient, then spirulina start growing your own superfood today. Take care off your body because at the end of the day, it's really the only place you have to live in
2. What is Spirulina: Spirulina, also called our Throw Spera, is a blue green algae, or CNO, bacteria commonly used as it there. It's very supplement or whole foods. Ology are responsible for most of the earth oxygen. There are the reason why life to place in the oceans, providing the nutrients needed to sustain it, Which means it's probably safe to say that we are the sense off. Spirulina. Spirulina has been a reliable source of food for centuries, but it's benefits got scientifically studied in the last 50 years, and it slowly broke into the mind stream for health conscious people. Algaze are at the lowest on the food chain. They don't require land and very few nutrition but Water Co two and son, which makes them except foods of the future. Today, Spirulina is at the center of studies by NASA to be used as the main source of food for its Mars missions, and it is also widely used as a treatment to save Children from malnourishment in Third World countries with only a tablespoon a day during a few weeks. Indeed, Spirulina is one of the original superfoods because of its unique nutritional profile. It is one of the highest blend based source of complete protein with all eight essential amino acids as well a stand off the 12 non essential amino acids. It is also extremely high in better Claritin, much higher than carrots, minerals such as iron and gamma lena lake acid amongst others. Spirulina is an excellent antioxidant. It has also proven to help detoxify the body off heavy metals and promote good gut bacteria . Some researchers think that spirulina helps for some cancers diabetes and is a great light to HIV treatments. But studies have yet to prove it. Contrary to popular belief, spirulina is not a source off B 12 for humans, since its B 12 is not the same kind as the one our body needs.
3. Why Grow Your Own: some species off CNO bacteria produce B M A, which is a neurotoxin that could be a concern if you don't know where his spirit and that comes from being A is also found in sea organisms consuming blue algae. This study also found out that 94% of Chinese spirulina samples tested were contaminated with happen Toxic Mike resistance toxins. Indeed, the spirit and I can be extremely nutritional, but most of it is grown in contaminated waters, and some processing techniques can make it toxic. Main harvesting regions include Japan with radiation from Fukushima Power Plant Incident in two dozen 11 China with heavy metals, lead, mercury and arsenic in India, where pollutants pissed sites and preservatives are commonly found in waters, so growing your own spirulina will then ensure that you have a night on the source water and nutrition used for your culture, which I think is the best option
4. All You Need: Here's a list of what I'm using to grow my own spirit. We not home for this. You can use my checklist available in the course resources so you'll know you have everything you need before starting in order to make your life easier. I also provided you with some Amazon links to the cheapest options based on your country so we don't have to search for hours. Some kind of transparent container glass is always best, but you can use P E T. Keep in mind that in average, one leader of culture is equal to one tablespoon of fresh spirulina, so 10 to 20 later is a good starting point. A fresh spirulina culture, the one that I got can be diluted up to five times its volume. So keep that in mind for your container. I had to use a smaller one to grow my culture at first. Bottled water. Too much chlorine can kill your culture. You can use filtered tap water, but I went for the bottled option, since it also reduces the risks off contamination a medium mix. We're going to discuss that in the next chapter. Ah, high thread count nylon or polyester cloth to harvest 400 is ideal. You can try using an island stalking or coffee filters, but it makes the job harder. An aquarium heater water has to be kept at around 35 degrees Celsius for optimal growth in a choir young pump to provide seal to to your culture and make sure it gets mixed and sees delights. Some kind of led lights or a bright window. I use this one that was made for an indoor doubting, smart bloods or a timer switch. If you want to automate your culture like I did, the aquarium pump and heater are optional as well as the artificial light. You can have your culture in front of a bride window and mix it manually once or twice a day is just easier for you when your culture is taken, care off automatically.
5. The Medium: It's not a time to get your medium ready, since spirulina grows in very specific conditions, hence why it's not found in every single late. We have to make sure that it has what it needs to grow. Two ways are not offered to you, either. You get all the ingredients and make your own mix, or you decide to buy already made version of it. Here's a recommended recipe. If you feel like playing chemists, you'll find all the links to get these ingredients online in the course description. For 10 gallons of water, you'll need 600 grimes off baking soda, 75 grams off salt Peter 38 grams off sea salt, 3.8 grams off the A P, which stands for ammonium phosphate or di ammonium phosphate 1 3/4 of a tablespoon off iron supplements. You wanted to get ready and bio available, so this will be mixed with regulating agent like lemon juice or green tea before introducing it to the medium. And that's it for the medium. Please always remember to use food grade ingredients. If you wouldn't eat it, don't give it to your spirulina. You will also need to prepare of food mix we about baking soda to fitted to your culture. Every time you take our spirit enough out this one, you will give your culture about half of the weight off wet spirit leading that you took out. So this food mixed is composed off 93.3% off salt Peter, 3.3% off moto or di ammonium phosphate, 2% off potassium sulfate and weapon three person off Epsom Salt. You'll find his recipe cards in the course description.
6. The Starter Culture: Now that we have all we need, we can get a culture. Maybe you're lucky one. And you know someone that has fresh spiriting at home and can get some from them. Most people get theirs on Etsy or Amazon. You'll get a bottle full off. Doorman spirulina The denser, darker it is, the more you can dilute it. Mine came with the instruction to dilute it up to five times its volume. Since I got a small bottle, I added it one leader off liquid in order to be able to reach the minimum water level off my aquarium heater before moving to this one container used. Now, when it comes to diluting your culture, I suggest not exceeding 15 centimeters off site that the more concentrated your culture is , the more it'll survive stress. This is important to know, especially at the beginning, since it has to get used to its new home. I'll show you how to measure site that for later. In order to make sure you have a backup of living spirulina. In case you lose your culture, keep some of it in 1/2 open bottle somewhere with no direct sunlight, giving it a bit of water and nutrition every two months or so.
7. Get Your Tank Ready: it's finally time to get your tank ready. I think that's the most exciting part. Makes me feel like a new interior designer. Start with the container of your choice. Make sure you did the math on how much spirulina you'd like to harvest, but new pressure. You can still move your culture to a new, bigger home later on when it gets stronger, which I always like to advise at. To eat the heater, make sure it is well secure. Using the suction cups, you can also use a heating mat if you prefer. But I find temperature easier to manage with this option, since it has a built in thermal meter said it between 30 to 38 degrees Celsius. Spirulina is very resistant and can survive between 8 to 45 degrees Celsius. Studies found that the ideal temperature is that 35 degrees Celsius Now you can out of your air pump. I used this bubbling story in order to avoid splashing and noise. Some people prefer using aquarium circulation pumps, but in my case for the size of my container, this solution seems fine. I live a link for the kind of pump I'm talking about in the description, and you're all set with the tank. You can now pour the desired volume off room temperature water and diluting medium, and then slowly add your culture to it. Make sure that your culture is also at room temperature. You don't want to shock it when you're done. Cover your container with the cloth to avoid contamination and place it in a moderately lit room, avoiding direct sunlight for three days. Your spirulina has been in the dark for a while, so it's good to go slowly in order not to stress it. You're cold. Sherman creates some strange patterns at first. Whilst it's getting used to his new habitat, that's normal. After a few hours, it'll have settled nicely. For the 1st 24 hours, I would advise not mixing it and not turning their own
8. Basic Care: spirulina is a pretty easy culture as long as you watch after it. You should be a good start for a long and happy relationship, and you learn to know what it needs to be well along the way. Here's a few things you should know right from the beginning, when in search of sun spirit enough produces oxygen, which allows it to rise to the surface. That means that if you're culture is concentrated to the top, it's probably liking light in order to optimize growth. I like to set up led light like this one I got with an indoor kid. I said it up to turn on every Howard for 45 minutes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. This 15 minute breaks allow spirulina to rest a bit, and it has been shown to improve growth rate. If your culture is in front of a window, you can hide up to 1/3 of it with a sheet of paper or aluminium foil to give some shade to allow the spirulina to rest if it doesn't need son anymore. As for the air pump, it turns on for one minute, three times a day, mixing everything up and allowing all spirulina to enjoyed light whilst also providing some more sue to also make sure you keep the levels in check, since it'll naturally lose some water to evaporation over time, you can always add a bit more filter water with the appropriate medium once in a while. I'd also advised checking its pH once in a while to make sure everything is going well, and no bacteria or a parasite is growing in the water. Since we used baking soda, the water should be very alkaline, and only spirulina should thrive in that environment. Dure pH should be around 9 to 11.
9. Harvesting: after around two weeks, your culture should be doctor. That means there's more spirit than what you're started it with regrets. You did it. It survived the trickiest part of the process. It's now time for you to measure its density to determine if it's a good time to harvest or not. For that, you'll need to buy or build what's called a secular risk. This contraption allows you to measure the site depth off your culture. In my case, I simply recycled the plastic cap that I poked on a graduated skewer. I'm slowly putting it in the water to measure the distance at which I cannot see it anymore . I like to filter spiriting out where my culture reaches around 1.5 centimeter of death, living about 1/3 off the culture and harvested. I know that I can get fresh spirit you know about once a week at that freedom. For that, you'll need your filter and a reception to catch the liquid. I build that contraption for this course. I usually use my filter on top of a large pot. After a few minutes, you should be left with a murder texture. This is your fresh spirulina. Some people like to eat it straight away, but I prefer to wash it in order to get rid of anything that is not pure spirulina. Rinse it with bottled or filtered water to reach you at 1% off pure salt. This will allow to keep your spirit not intact. Pure water will make it sells, break and lick their competence. I like to repeat this process to three times. This also helps with preservation. I feel like once your spirit nice rinsed, you can either consume it straight away or storied in the fridge for three days or more. As long as it doesn't smell change, color or texture, you should be good to go. Some people like to freeze it in a nice trade for convenience. You can now poor by the remaining liquid and give your culture the nutrition it needs to thrive. As a rule of thumb, I like to give back about half the weight off spirulina I took out. I hope you'll have as much fun as I did, researching testing and learning before making this course. I can't wait for you to share your progress with your culture in the comments. Please feel free to leave your questions and eventual tips about spirulina in the comments . I'll be happy to discuss and learn from you. Thank you so much for your time and remember to take care off your body because at the end of the day, it's really the only place you have to live in.
Cyril Biselx, Digital Designer & Art Director
