Canvasback Wellness Center.
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It's such an amazing center,
but it isn't just a building.
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It's far more
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because Canvasback
reaches out across the atoll,
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across the islands to
bring health to people.
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How do they do that?
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They train teams
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that actually go
into the villages,
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take blood pressure,
find people with diabetes,
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and really save their lives.
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Absolutely amazing
stuff is going on here.
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Stay tuned.
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Jacque told me
when we were in Majuro,
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we just had to come
to this cute little shop
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and truly it is a gem.
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Matter of fact, the
lady that owns the shop
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had cataract surgery
with Canvasback team.
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Look at these things.
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I mean, they're
intricate, they're beautiful.
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The handicraft is
absolutely marvelous.
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Follow me, I want to
show you some more of...
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They're actually making
things right here on site.
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Look at this.
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This is amazing how
intricate these ladies do
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a tremendous job.
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I wish we had time to
watch them do everything.
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Look at this.
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Look at that work.
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That's the kind of
thing she's doing right now.
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It's amazing.
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This lady over here.
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Not sure who
collects all the shells,
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but she's doing
all the shell design.
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Now you got to tell
me, what are you making?
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I'm making a necklace. Necklace.
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May I pick one up? Yeah.
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This is how we
complete all those,
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you figure for the metal.
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Okay, okay.
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How long does it take
you to make one of these?
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Five minutes. Five minutes.
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Do it in five minutes? Wow.
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Can you show me how
you start one of them?
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I can make one here.
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Yeah, if you
would, if you don't mind.
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How long have you done this?
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Oh, three months.
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Three months.
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But this is they take
it an age-old custom area,
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in Majuro area.
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Now you will look.
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What materials
is this made out of?
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Is it pandanus? No,
this is coconut fiber.
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Coconut fiber. Yeah.
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Coconut is used for
everything, isn't it?
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Yes.
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Kind of show you one more thing.
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Look at these roses.
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How beautiful.
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There are so many things
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that the people
of the islands do.
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I mean, their
handicraft, their lives,
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there's such a
colorful and wonderful people.
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There's more impact to come.
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So stay right here.
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According to the
World Health Organization,
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depression is the leading
cause of worldwide disability
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that happens to a lot of people.
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we have a great
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Tanner, good to meet you.
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Nice to meet you.
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Hey, thanks for
inviting us over.
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Anytime. Come on in.
Let me show you around.
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Sounds good. Sounds good.
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Yeah, I want to hear
all the good details.
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So yeah, give me
the grand tour here.
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Okay, so this is the
Canvasback Wellness Center.
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We started 2006 with a grant
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from the Department of Interior,
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to do a study on
reversing diabetes
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in the Marshall Islands.
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I got to stop you,
reversing diabetes.
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Our viewers are
going to go crazy
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and say you
can't reverse diabetes,
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you got to take pills.
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Well, that's the
conventional thinking.
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Okay. Right.
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But we found that
with diet and exercise,
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you can reverse diabetes.
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This is proven?
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This is proven beyond
a shadow of the doubt.
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Now a lot of people
will still, you know,
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try and cast some doubt on it
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and say conventional
medicine needs to be used.
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But basically, we've proven
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that you can change a lifestyle
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and reverse not only diabetes,
but also hypertension, obesity,
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and a lot of the other
non-communicable diseases
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that are out there.
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And I notice,
you're not just isolated
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someplace out
here in the island.
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You're right with the hospital.
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Yes, yeah, the hospital
is literally right next door
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to the wellness center,
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which is very convenient for us.
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Because when we
get patients over here,
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we can literally walk
them over to the clinic
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and have them checked out
and make sure they're okay.
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And then we can
continue with the program.
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What we do is we do
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an intensive two-week diabetes
intervention program here.
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And so, intervention
program is bringing in
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about 30-50 diabetic
patients or pre-diabetes.
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And we teach
them lifestyle change.
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We teach them how to eat healthy
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with the wellness center food.
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So you've got some
good looking things here
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for breakfast right now.
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So this is all
diabetes friendly food,
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vegan, diabetes friendly food.
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Breakfast, lunch and
dinner, they eat here.
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And then we
exercise for two weeks.
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Okay. Okay.
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So then we teach them
how to exercise properly.
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We have our own gym,
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that has all brand
new equipment in it.
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LDS Charities was kind
enough to donate us a new gym.
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So they are able to
exercise in there for free
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whenever they wanted to.
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And we have an
exercise coordinator
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that comes in and
teaches the class.
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And then in the
evenings and do health lectures
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and we do a cooking school.
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Because it's very important
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that they get used
to cooking with food
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that's healthy for them.
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You know, your
average diet out here for kid
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is ramen with coulis.
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So typical US diet for kids.
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Ramen and coulis.
Yes, yes, college kid diet.
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And you'll see it all
over the islands here,
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horrible diet,
sodas instead of water.
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Ramen and coulis,
doughnuts for breakfast.
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And, Tanner, let me ask you,
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at what age do you
start seeing diabetes?
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You see it in
significant numbers
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when you start to
get into your 20s.
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Twenties? Yes.
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But that number
sadly is getting younger
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and younger each year.
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Because of the
diet? Because of the diet.
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The body simply
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isn't able to compensate anymore
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with all the junk
food that they're feeding.
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So let me show you
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the rest of the
wellness center here.
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Okay. This is really cool.
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This is the hospital's
kitchen services here.
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The hospital cooks
in the wellness center?
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Right.
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The hospital cooks
in the wellness center.
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And if you look over here,
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you can see them we
had the plexiglass up
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so we can keep an eye on them.
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Now how's that work?
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You guys cooking
different kinds of diets?
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We actually are cooking
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about the same type of diet now.
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How's that happened?
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It changed about
two three years ago.
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I know hospital food. Right.
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Yeah, it's very
typical hospital food,
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you know, we're
all familiar with.
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It's bland and tasteless
and not at all healthy for you.
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And that's what
they used to serve here.
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About three years
ago, that all changed,
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where they moved in with
us from the hospital kitchen,
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while the hospital
kitchen gets renovated.
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And that gave us an
opportunity to help them out.
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You just kind of did a
little evangelism, is it?
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We did.
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We did a little
sneaky evangelism
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with them.
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And we said, okay,
we'll help you guys out
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serving diabetes friendly food,
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because you know,
most of the patients
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in the hospital
are of course diabetic.
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So we trained
their cooking staff
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to cook ramens food.
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And then we have
the gym back in here.
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Wow, this is nice.
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Yes, this is all new equipment.
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LDS Charities
donated all of this to us.
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And we run aerobics classes,
we run classes for women,
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classes for men.
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There's, this is one
of the only free gyms
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on the island.
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Normally, you would
pay at least $25 a month
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for a gym membership,
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which you know,
compared to the States
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is a little cheaper.
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So this becomes another
way to invite islanders in
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and then start
training them another health.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And exercise is a big
part of the health message.
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You had the diet which is huge.
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But you got to get
the physical activity too.
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Now I understand
there's more to the center
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than what
you've shown me so far.
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Is there more
tour? Yes, definitely.
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We want to take
you out to the gardens.
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Okay.
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The hospital has
spaces in between the wards.
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And they were kind
enough to let us use them
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as gardens to show people
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how food can be grown
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even on a sandy
soily atoll there.
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It's kind of exciting.
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You just kind of occupied
the hospital from all aspects.
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Yeah, we did.
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It's a partnership.
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So let me introduce you
to the Majuro Agro forest.
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As you know...
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Looks like a
forest of banana trees.
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Oh, they do spread. Okay.
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But agro forestry, if
you're not familiar with it,
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is basically
growing a jungle of sorts,
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you're growing low
level crops, mid-level crops,
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and then
obviously, your larger crops
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like your bananas.
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Okay.
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So we started this
kind of funny in 2015,
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and then immediately
got hit by a big drought.
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So everything kind of
stayed dormant for a while,
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but it's taken off as
you can see since then.
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You got figs also.
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So this is papaya.
Well, that's papaya.
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Oh, looks like figs all most.
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All right. They do.
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Okay, these are
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all different
types of bananas here.
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And we're
stepping over cucumber.
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Yep, we're stepping
over some cucumbers.
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We have, I believe
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it's seven different
varieties of local banana trees
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growing in this agro forest.
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Even like the dead
leaves from the branches.
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We use that as compost
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in the school
garden program that we run.
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So we use everything
that we can out of here.
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And then if you
want to come down here.
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I'm going to ask you,
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what's the vine on
the ground all over?
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This is sweet potato.
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Oh, okay.
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Yes. Okay.
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Not many people know, too,
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that you can actually eat
the leaves on the sweet potato.
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Didn't know that.
Yeah, very good for you.
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So things grow quite well here.
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They grow very well here.
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Now, why do you...
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I guess the real question
and you may have touched on it.
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But why are you
doing all of this?
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What and you're again
at the hospital situation?
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What's the reason?
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The reason is twofold.
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One, we want to
give this as an example,
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to everybody in the Pacific
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that you know
gardening doesn't have to be
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your
stereotypical row of vegetables
00:14:26.39\00:14:29.30
that you have out there.
00:14:29.33\00:14:30.77
You can
literally plant a forest,
00:14:30.80\00:14:33.44
an edible forest
in your backyard.
00:14:33.47\00:14:36.91
And everybody, most everybody
has a little bit of backyard.
00:14:36.94\00:14:40.78
Not downtown area,
but out of town here, yes.
00:14:40.81\00:14:46.11
You know, you got
to check out this tree.
00:14:46.15\00:14:47.98
Just try a leaf in this thing
and tell me what you think?
00:14:48.02\00:14:50.65
Eat a leaf of the tree?
00:14:50.69\00:14:52.02
Eat a leaf of the tree.
00:14:52.05\00:14:53.39
This is my pride
and joy out here.
00:14:53.42\00:14:57.89
Tell me what that tastes like?
00:14:57.93\00:15:01.86
Now, it's garlic. Right.
00:15:01.90\00:15:03.37
Garlic. This is a garlic tree.
00:15:03.40\00:15:06.74
Okay, so if you don't have
any fresh garlic available...
00:15:06.77\00:15:09.57
I'm going to stink all day.
00:15:09.60\00:15:12.54
That is something else.
00:15:12.57\00:15:14.04
You can use this in its place.
00:15:14.08\00:15:16.14
You can grind this up
and put it into a soup.
00:15:16.18\00:15:20.15
Put into a salad,
whatever you want,
00:15:20.18\00:15:22.35
it'll taste like the garlic.
00:15:22.38\00:15:23.95
Yeah, that's
absolutely astounding.
00:15:23.99\00:15:25.79
It is, I love this thing.
00:15:25.82\00:15:27.36
The agricultural people
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wouldn't let me
carry it through but...
00:15:29.72\00:15:31.06
No, no, you can't.
00:15:31.09\00:15:32.43
But get this.
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This has been
growing here for three years.
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Just stays just about the size.
00:15:35.83\00:15:38.97
And you keep
picking leaves off of it?
00:15:39.00\00:15:40.34
Yeah.
00:15:40.37\00:15:41.70
And just picking
leaves off of it.
00:15:41.74\00:15:43.07
Re-grows the
leaves. Keeps coming back.
00:15:43.10\00:15:45.04
But also has a really beautiful,
00:15:45.07\00:15:46.81
sweet smelling flower.
00:15:46.84\00:15:48.94
I see you've got some
other herbs down here.
00:15:48.98\00:15:51.68
So this cactus over here.
00:15:51.71\00:15:54.32
This is dragon fruits.
00:15:54.35\00:15:55.68
Whoo, yeah, I love dragon fruit.
00:15:55.72\00:15:57.05
So I know you're pricing
dragon fruit in the stores.
00:15:57.09\00:15:59.25
Yeah, it's like $5
for one dragon fruit.
00:15:59.29\00:16:01.26
Yeah, very expensive, it's true.
00:16:01.29\00:16:03.22
Well, there's a reason for it.
00:16:03.26\00:16:04.59
It is very hard to
grow and very slow growing.
00:16:04.63\00:16:07.83
So this has been growing
00:16:07.86\00:16:09.26
this particular
one for about a year.
00:16:09.30\00:16:11.27
The one we have down there,
00:16:11.30\00:16:12.63
that's been growing
for three or four years now
00:16:12.67\00:16:15.04
and has yet to flower.
00:16:15.07\00:16:18.07
So nothing yet? Nothing yet.
00:16:18.11\00:16:19.77
Historically, about
how long does it take to...
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It really should be
flowering very soon.
00:16:22.18\00:16:25.41
In this environment,
it's a little trickier.
00:16:25.45\00:16:27.92
So...
00:16:27.95\00:16:29.28
Now when it gets to blossom
and then finally a fruit.
00:16:29.32\00:16:32.92
Right, you're going to have
out here in the Marshall Island,
00:16:32.95\00:16:35.16
it's a little different
than in other countries
00:16:35.19\00:16:38.23
where you have pollinators.
00:16:38.26\00:16:40.36
You know, like in
the States you have a bee
00:16:40.40\00:16:42.23
that can pollinate for you.
00:16:42.26\00:16:43.83
We don't have any bees here.
00:16:43.87\00:16:45.23
No bees... No bees.
00:16:45.27\00:16:46.60
At all. We have a black wasp.
00:16:46.63\00:16:48.64
That's it.
00:16:48.67\00:16:50.01
That doesn't sound very good.
00:16:50.04\00:16:51.37
He's not very
good at pollinating.
00:16:51.41\00:16:52.74
So we have to do it for him.
00:16:52.77\00:16:55.61
So we'll come and
in dragon fruit case
00:16:55.64\00:16:58.38
the flowers open at night.
00:16:58.41\00:17:00.15
So we would pollinate at night.
00:17:00.18\00:17:01.78
Come out here with a paintbrush?
00:17:01.82\00:17:03.18
Yes, yeah, in dragon trees case,
00:17:03.22\00:17:05.32
other cases you would use...
00:17:05.35\00:17:06.69
You go buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.
00:17:06.72\00:17:08.09
And they can feel good.
00:17:08.12\00:17:09.46
In other cases like a tomato
00:17:09.49\00:17:11.06
would be somewhere you
would use a paintbrush.
00:17:11.09\00:17:14.00
So you have to do
that with tomatoes too
00:17:14.03\00:17:15.36
since you have no bees?
00:17:15.40\00:17:16.73
You can't.
00:17:16.77\00:17:18.10
Tomatoes are nice
and that gentle breeze
00:17:18.13\00:17:19.50
will actually shake
loose the pollen on them.
00:17:19.53\00:17:20.87
Okay.
00:17:20.90\00:17:22.24
So you don't start
too big of an issue.
00:17:22.27\00:17:24.01
But your
cucumbers and your melons,
00:17:24.04\00:17:26.78
you got to do it.
00:17:26.81\00:17:28.14
For every cucumber and melon?
00:17:28.18\00:17:29.51
Every cucumber and melon.
00:17:29.54\00:17:30.88
If you want a good harvest,
you got to pollinate by hand.
00:17:30.91\00:17:36.58
Well, let me show you
another garden about here.
00:17:36.62\00:17:40.16
So this is our
main supply garden
00:17:40.19\00:17:43.69
so to speak.
00:17:43.73\00:17:45.06
We grow a lot of
cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes,
00:17:45.09\00:17:49.63
and we try and utilize
all natural, local methods.
00:17:49.66\00:17:54.67
So one of the
things I'm talking about
00:17:54.70\00:17:56.14
is as you can see,
we take coconut husks,
00:17:56.17\00:17:59.21
which are excellent fiber,
00:17:59.24\00:18:02.71
water retainers.
00:18:02.74\00:18:04.08
And everybody can find them?
00:18:04.11\00:18:05.45
And everybody
can find them, yes.
00:18:05.48\00:18:06.82
There are a ton
of them on island.
00:18:06.85\00:18:09.18
So we line all the
beds with coconut husks
00:18:09.22\00:18:13.19
and it helps
keep the moisture in
00:18:13.22\00:18:16.66
and it helps break down
and fertilize the plants.
00:18:16.69\00:18:20.56
Now speaking of fertilizer,
00:18:20.60\00:18:22.06
do you use anything
else for fertilizer?
00:18:22.10\00:18:24.20
Yes, we do.
00:18:24.23\00:18:25.57
We use what's called copra cake.
00:18:25.60\00:18:27.97
Now copra is the major
export for the Marshall Islands.
00:18:28.00\00:18:31.34
And copra cake is like
00:18:31.37\00:18:33.41
what's left over at
the end of that process.
00:18:33.44\00:18:36.08
But it's very
healthy for plants.
00:18:36.11\00:18:38.98
So we just have the
entire garden plowed.
00:18:39.01\00:18:42.65
And then we add in
bags of copra cake.
00:18:42.68\00:18:46.09
And I assume it's
fairly inexpensive too.
00:18:46.12\00:18:48.09
It's $1 bag.
00:18:48.12\00:18:49.56
And the bags are
about 40 pounds each.
00:18:49.59\00:18:51.56
Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.
00:18:51.59\00:18:53.13
So you get a good
bang for your buck.
00:18:53.16\00:18:56.26
But this one, we're
going to use this garden
00:18:56.30\00:18:58.93
when the food concession trailer
00:18:58.97\00:19:00.30
comes out.
00:19:00.34\00:19:01.67
Food truck.
00:19:01.70\00:19:03.04
Tell me a little bit
about the food truck?
00:19:03.07\00:19:04.41
Right.
00:19:04.44\00:19:05.77
So for years,
we've been trying to help
00:19:05.81\00:19:07.14
the Marshallese increase
their access to fresh produce,
00:19:07.18\00:19:11.98
that's at an
affordable price that they can,
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.95
you know, get to.
00:19:14.98\00:19:16.48
So you know, your
average income out here
00:19:16.52\00:19:18.19
is about $3 an hour.
00:19:18.22\00:19:20.22
So there's not a
whole lot that you could buy
00:19:20.26\00:19:22.09
at a supermarket
00:19:22.12\00:19:23.46
When the price
of one cucumber is,
00:19:23.49\00:19:25.76
you know, $12.
00:19:25.79\00:19:27.36
Twelve whole.
00:19:27.40\00:19:28.73
Twelve dollars for one cucumber.
00:19:28.76\00:19:30.87
It's $4 a pound.
00:19:30.90\00:19:33.00
Seriously? Yes.
00:19:33.03\00:19:34.50
So nobody eats cucumber.
00:19:34.54\00:19:36.60
No Marshallese
eats cucumber nearly.
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.31
Yeah, they can't afford them.
00:19:39.34\00:19:41.14
So when you grow cucumbers here,
00:19:41.18\00:19:42.61
I mean, this is a delicacy
00:19:42.64\00:19:43.98
also to show
people a change of diet.
00:19:44.01\00:19:46.61
Right and we sell them at $1.
00:19:46.65\00:19:49.98
Okay. Oh, wow.
00:19:50.02\00:19:51.85
So now what was
out of reach for you
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.52
before you can afford.
00:19:54.56\00:19:56.86
So you're a real magnet
as it were in lot of ways.
00:19:56.89\00:19:59.69
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:59.73\00:20:01.06
So what we're going
to do is we have funding
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.16
from New Zealand to buy
a food concession trailer.
00:20:03.20\00:20:06.33
Now this thing, you know,
00:20:06.37\00:20:07.70
picture kitchen on wheels, okay.
00:20:07.74\00:20:11.24
We're going to take this
guy out to all different areas
00:20:11.27\00:20:13.48
on Majuro
00:20:13.51\00:20:14.84
and use the produce
we have from this garden,
00:20:14.88\00:20:18.18
and the produce we
get from Laura farm.
00:20:18.21\00:20:22.22
And we're going
to sell it at cost.
00:20:22.25\00:20:25.15
Which is way below market?
00:20:25.19\00:20:26.59
Way below than market.
00:20:26.62\00:20:28.66
So be able to
provide healthy food
00:20:28.69\00:20:32.29
to the communities
that are in need the most.
00:20:32.33\00:20:35.06
This is beautiful.
00:20:35.10\00:20:37.10
Thank you.
00:20:37.13\00:20:38.63
You'd mentioned to me
while we're coming over here
00:20:38.67\00:20:40.64
that you hand
pollinate all these?
00:20:40.67\00:20:42.40
Yes, this is cucumber
that we're growing here.
00:20:42.44\00:20:45.11
And you do have
to hand pollinate,
00:20:45.14\00:20:47.08
since there are
no active pollinators
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.28
in the Marshall Islands
00:20:49.31\00:20:50.65
like you would
have in other countries.
00:20:50.68\00:20:53.01
So our guys literally
come out here every day
00:20:53.05\00:20:55.45
and look for
00:20:55.48\00:20:56.82
and find the female flowers
00:20:56.85\00:20:59.05
and pollinate
with the male flowers.
00:20:59.09\00:21:01.22
Every single day?
00:21:01.26\00:21:02.59
Yes, you have to do it
00:21:02.62\00:21:03.96
every single day
until they swell,
00:21:03.99\00:21:05.33
what you'll notice
00:21:05.36\00:21:06.70
is that you've
successfully pollinated it
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.63
if the female
flower closes up in a day,
00:21:08.66\00:21:11.23
and then the
back of it swells up,
00:21:11.27\00:21:13.80
that's a successful pollination.
00:21:13.84\00:21:15.74
Until then you keep going at it.
00:21:15.77\00:21:18.41
And then what's interesting
is in this, this row,
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.71
and in the row behind it,
00:21:21.74\00:21:23.08
and the other ones you
see in the background here,
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.08
we had a lot of trouble
00:21:25.11\00:21:27.02
with some
micronutrient deficiencies
00:21:27.05\00:21:29.75
like, you know, your
potassium, your phosphate
00:21:29.78\00:21:33.32
and your nitrogen are key.
00:21:33.36\00:21:35.62
And some of the soil out
here is lacking in those.
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.66
So what we did is
a little local trick.
00:21:38.69\00:21:41.33
We went down to the
fish factory and bought
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.57
a five-pound bag of
basically fish guts,
00:21:43.60\00:21:46.74
along with some chunks.
00:21:46.77\00:21:48.14
And we dug a
trench in between here.
00:21:48.17\00:21:50.67
Okay.
00:21:50.71\00:21:52.04
You and the
Native Americans did?
00:21:52.07\00:21:53.78
Yeah, and then pile it in.
00:21:53.81\00:21:55.78
And there's the result.
00:21:55.81\00:21:57.98
Everything is green
and growing very well
00:21:58.01\00:22:00.55
and producing.
00:22:00.58\00:22:01.92
You were telling,
those are cucumbers too,
00:22:01.95\00:22:03.28
those monsters?
00:22:03.32\00:22:04.65
These guys are
cucumbers. Let's go check them.
00:22:04.69\00:22:06.02
Personally, I've
never seen leaves that big.
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.76
Yeah, this is the effect
00:22:07.79\00:22:10.03
of that fertilization, you know.
00:22:10.06\00:22:13.96
Now the guy's just
harvested earlier today,
00:22:14.00\00:22:16.46
but I bet we can
find one in here.
00:22:16.50\00:22:18.70
But this guy,
00:22:18.73\00:22:20.07
this is only
maybe two months growth
00:22:20.10\00:22:23.10
at the most.
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.47
Two months.
00:22:24.51\00:22:25.84
Yeah. You can see already.
00:22:25.87\00:22:27.21
Look at that.
00:22:27.24\00:22:28.58
Those things are huge. Yeah.
00:22:28.61\00:22:29.94
And they're growing all over.
00:22:29.98\00:22:31.31
They're looking for more space,
00:22:31.35\00:22:32.68
we could probably put
another trellis up here
00:22:32.71\00:22:34.05
and it go even higher.
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.15
So we're looking
for cucumbers. Yeah.
00:22:36.18\00:22:37.72
Let's see if we
can find anything.
00:22:37.75\00:22:39.35
Here's one. Yeah,
I see one here too.
00:22:39.39\00:22:41.22
Yeah, and
there's one down or two.
00:22:41.26\00:22:43.49
Do you pick them at that
size or you let them get bigger?
00:22:43.53\00:22:45.76
No, no, I let them get.
00:22:45.79\00:22:47.20
I'll show you on this side here.
00:22:47.23\00:22:49.03
Well, I see a
big one over there.
00:22:49.06\00:22:50.40
Yeah, I see it.
00:22:50.43\00:22:51.77
And we probably got
more on this side too.
00:22:51.80\00:22:53.17
Way to go. There it is.
00:22:56.27\00:22:57.94
This guy.
00:22:57.97\00:22:59.47
This guy's big
enough, we can pick.
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.14
Now when you
pick them that size,
00:23:01.18\00:23:02.54
they're not too pithy
or hollow inside at all.
00:23:02.58\00:23:05.51
No, actually, the thing is,
if you let them get super big,
00:23:05.55\00:23:09.48
they'll lose that nice
cucumbery taste of them.
00:23:09.52\00:23:13.39
Okay, more watery. Yeah.
00:23:13.42\00:23:14.76
Yeah, okay.
00:23:14.79\00:23:16.12
So this size,
you're going to get
00:23:16.16\00:23:17.49
a really great flavor out.
00:23:17.53\00:23:18.86
Now from over here, I
can see lot more in there.
00:23:18.89\00:23:21.36
Yeah.
00:23:21.40\00:23:22.73
They pick them
every day. All right.
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.40
And cucumbers,
the beautiful thing
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.14
about a cucumber is this guy
00:23:27.17\00:23:28.94
will grow to this
size in a week or two pops.
00:23:28.97\00:23:32.87
They grow extremely fast.
00:23:32.91\00:23:37.01
So yeah, that's,
that's our cucumber harvest.
00:23:37.05\00:23:39.01
Yeah, it's funny.
00:23:39.05\00:23:40.38
We were looking
for something nice.
00:23:40.42\00:23:41.75
I see them all over the place.
00:23:41.78\00:23:43.12
Yeah, me too.
00:23:43.15\00:23:44.49
So we'll be harvesting
all this week basically.
00:23:44.52\00:23:45.89
All right.
00:23:45.92\00:23:47.26
Well, thank you. Thank you.
00:23:47.29\00:23:48.62
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00:23:48.66\00:23:49.99
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until people no
longer have gardens,
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no longer have things to grow.
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But through the hand
of God, really, I believe,
00:25:30.39\00:25:33.23
He's touched the
hearts of the people
00:25:33.26\00:25:34.63
for the wellness center.
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Canvasback is teaching
them how to garden again,
00:25:36.03\00:25:38.40
how to have
wonderful fruits and vegetables
00:25:38.43\00:25:41.27
for a healthier lifestyle.
00:25:41.30\00:25:42.64
You see, when
your mind is clear,
00:25:42.67\00:25:45.17
you can hear that
still small voice of God.
00:25:45.21\00:25:47.64
Not only does
Canvasback specialize in medical
00:25:51.15\00:25:54.25
and dental teams
00:25:54.28\00:25:55.62
to help those in
great need of healing,
00:25:55.65\00:25:58.39
but we also work to reverse
00:25:58.42\00:26:00.36
the epidemic of
diabetes among the population.
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It's the number one
killer in the Marshall Islands.
00:26:04.46\00:26:08.56
We are utilizing every means
00:26:08.60\00:26:11.27
at our disposal to
combat this deadly disease.
00:26:11.30\00:26:15.30
We are working to lead
people back to a healthy diet,
00:26:15.34\00:26:18.94
free from so many
foods that are major players
00:26:18.97\00:26:22.24
in diabetes and heart disease.
00:26:22.28\00:26:25.11
We are training and
sending out neighborhood teams
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to detect health problems early
00:26:28.55\00:26:31.32
and then offer them
solutions that work.
00:26:31.35\00:26:34.19
We're making
tremendous progress,
00:26:34.22\00:26:36.56
but your help is needed.
00:26:36.59\00:26:38.86
The program has
been highly successful,
00:26:38.89\00:26:41.56
but we must expand
and that takes money.
00:26:41.60\00:26:45.13
The needs are great, but
the solutions are simple.
00:26:45.17\00:26:49.04
Early detection
and teaching with love
00:26:49.07\00:26:52.34
the basic principles of health
00:26:52.37\00:26:54.54
that move people
toward a healthy lifestyle.
00:26:54.58\00:26:57.91
I do hope you will
financially join us
00:26:57.95\00:27:01.48
in helping to
eradicate diabetes,
00:27:01.52\00:27:04.22
the number one killer
in the Marshall Islands
00:27:04.25\00:27:06.99
and beyond.
00:27:07.02\00:27:08.36
To be a part of
this exciting ministry,
00:27:12.89\00:27:14.73
write us at Canvasback Missions,
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940, Adam Street, Suite
R, Benicia, California 94510.
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You can also log
on to canvasback.org
00:27:22.34\00:27:24.97
or call us at (707) 746-7828.
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Thank you for watching.
00:27:29.48\00:27:30.81
Please join me again
00:27:30.85\00:27:32.18
for another
exciting island adventure.
00:27:32.21\00:27:34.12
Remember,
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Canvasback is making an
impact on hearts and lives,
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one miracle at a time.
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