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Basil grows in abundance in several variations and in multiple garden beds throughout the Pixies Potager. It has been one of our favorite summer herbs as it is both delicious and fragrant and is used in so much of our cooking. However, after doing a bit of research we realized that Basil had a questionable past that we knew nothing about! This video is about the legends, lore and downright rumors which historically swirled around the innocent basil plant and also the benefits and how to grow the herb properly... and without cursing! We’ve also shared a few delicious recipes involving basil that will likely leave you seeking out a few homeless basil plants to adopt and tucking them in garden pots throughout your own space. The recipes for Basil Pesto, Blueberry basil Vinegar, Blueberry Stilton Vinaigrette and peach and Basil Simple Syrup, can be found below. Thank you for watching and please consider subscribing and liking our channel as it helps us continue to grow. Basil Pesto 2 C. Fresh Basil 2 garlic cloves peeled ½ C. Roasted Walnuts, Pine nuts, or pecans ½ C. Fresh grated Parmesan ¼ C. Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil ½ tsp. sea salt Place the basil and garlic in a food processor and pulse until roughly chopped. Add the walnuts and pulse until they are chopped and combined with the herbs. Add Parmesan and salt. Set to process on low and drizzle in the olive oil through the feed on top of the processors lid. Scrape down the sides, taste for seasoning, place in a bowl and cover with plastic pressed down onto the mixture. Refrigerate until you are ready to use. Quick Blueberry Basil Vinegar 2 C. fresh blueberries 1 C. Fresh Basil 1C. Organic red wine vinegar Place all the ingredients in the pitcher of your blender and whir on low speed until roughly chopped. Pour mixture into a jar and let sit in your refrigerator until you are ready to use it. When ready, strain through a fine sieve or cheese cloth and use it in your vinaigrette. Peach Basil Simple Syrup The skins of 6 organic peaches 1 C. Fresh Basil 2 C. Water 2 C. Organic sugar With a paring knife peel the skins off of peaches and set the peaches aside to be used in some other delicious creation of your choosing. Gather all the peelings and place in a saucepan with the remainder of the ingredients. Stir the mixture periodically as it comes to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes and then remove from heat and let in steep for at least ½ hour. Once the liquid mixture has cooled, strain it through a fine sieve or cheese cloth and store in a glass jar in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it to make lemonade or add it to sparkling water, or a mixed drink…. really, your imagination is the limit here. Blueberry Stilton Vinaigrette 1 garlic clove micro planed 1 tsp. sea salt Mash the two above ingredients into a puree and set aside. 1 ounce of blueberry Stilton cheese (or the Stilton of your choice) ½ C. Blueberry Basil Vinegar ½ C. Avocado oil 4 or 5 drops of Worcestershire sauce And black pepper to taste Combine Stilton and garlic and with a large fork. Add the vinegar and Worcestershire sauce and blend with fork. Add the oil and blend again to incorporate it. Pour into a jar and refrigerate until ready to serve. The Pixies served it over a salad made up of a butterleaf lettuce, shaved golden beets, arugula micro greens and maple pecans. Footage & Images Flicking Through Book 1/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Vintage Map Pan Across to Middle East/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Cat Eye Macro/by Beachfront// courtesy of Videvo Panning Shot of Tombstone In Graveyard In Oxford England/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Vintage Globe India/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Religious Ceremony at Night in India/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Tracking Over Prescription Drugs/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Vintage Map Pan Across to Italy/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo vintage Globe Europe/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Lightning Strikes in Slow Motion/Beachfront/Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Microscope Close Up 1/by Videvo/ courtesy of Videvo Music Gavin Luke/A Sophisticated Affair/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Traditional/Auld Lang Syne (Traditional Version)/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Stationary Sign/Behind His Lies/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Raymond Grouse/Beneath the Bushes/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Fredrik Ekstrom/Conquer The Battle 3/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Francis Wells/Dreaming of Tomorrow/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Jon Bjork/Flight of the Pixies/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Mike Franklyn/Mermaid Dance/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Etienne Roussel/Siren's Dance/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Mike Franklyn/The Perfect Start/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Raymond Grouse/The Tales He Told/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Howard Harper-Barnes/The Wind Is Changing/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Jon Bjork/Two Imaginary Friends/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

Our Fuzzy faced little friend comes by each morning to check our menu and play a game of Catfishing... He simply can't resist the temptation of the pole...‎ But then it gives us reason to love on him before he heads off on his daily adventures! Please consider liking and subscribing to our channel as it helps us to grow.😊 @verityhouseinspired9184

A good friend has taken to collecting 5 gallon bakery buckets for the Pixies ever expanding Potager experiment! So we scrub them until all the remnants of the old occupant are gone, drill drainage holes, fill with organic soil and worm casings, and give our adopted plants a bed! "There's always room for more." is the Pixie philosophy... until we run out of buckets!😉🤣Please consider subscribing and liking our channel as it helps us to grow.... @verityhouseinspired9184

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keeping track of growth in the potager and listening to our plants when they show us what they prefer...and watching the plants reach their full potential. Please consider subscribing and liking our channel, as it helps us to grow! Thank you!😊 ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

The experiments in the spiral garden are going well, and now we've added harmonic wind chimes to the mix to trial frequencies and their effect on our plants. The new chimes are courtesy of my Dad and stepmother, so thank you both!‎❤️Please consider subscribing and liking our channel, as it helps us to grow! @verityhouseinspired9184

For more information on why and how to use electroculture in your own garden, please watch our full-length video on electroculture. please, consider liking and subscribing to our channel as it helps us to grow... Thank you for watching...😊 ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

Using a blacklight after dark to find happily munching, highly destructive worms...makes it easier to locate them and always takes the little villains by surprise! Please consider liking and subscribing to our channel as it helps us grow!😊 ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

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As we expand the Potager, we also expand our experiments with electroculture. This is the first time we've laid the seedlings directly over a copper wire who, in turn, is attached to our spiral antenna. We shall see if this has any pronounced effect on the watermelon plants. We have, however, made the Dragonflies happy by returning their antenna with the crystal on top to the approximate position it had occupied before...happy dragonfly=less mosquitoes....so we are all about making them happy!🤣 Please consider subscribing and liking our channel as It helps us continue to grow... @verityhouseinspired9184

For those who, in just this brief moment, have become fans of Sir Munchalot.... And who fear for his safety... We would like to assure you he made it safely to his next show...on the Snail tree. He is undoubtedly regaling all his new friends about his adventure in the land of the giants. Poor soul, undoubtedly, they will think he has lost his marble...😉 please consider subscribing and liking our channel. Thank you. @verityhouseinspired9184

In the Pixie's Potager, we have been experimenting with Electroculture and imagining new ways to trial spiraling copper wire with the growth of our plants. Tepee supports wrapped in a copper wire helix have given us wonderful results thus far... ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

In Pixie's Potager, the baby cats are getting big enough to come out and explore! Much to the Pixies delight, it is becoming common to lift up their plants leaved and find a fuzzy little face peering up at them! If we're being honest, harvesting veg in the smothering heat of a Louisiana Summer is much more appealing if you are apt to meet a tiny friend while doing so...

Dragonflies can eat a hundred mosquitoes per day.... and since the Potager is rooted in the South....We love our Dragonfly community! The dragonflies adore the electroculture antennas and particularly the ones with crystals or rose quartz on their tips. So off the Pixies went to pick out more natural stone crystals to make their dragonflies happy... And the curious little folk came to try out the new and old antennas and say hello. ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

Our furry friend just realized he was not the only cat hanging out on the porch with his human friends this fine evening... His curiosity about the tiny fuzzy creature was matched only by his concern for his own well-being, as the baby cat was loudly opinionated and obviously unstable...😉 Finnegan finally decided a human body guard was his best option, and he kept a close eye on the little creature from behind his human's legs... One can not be too careful in these situations... The Tiny One finally wore itself out, Finnegan casually dismissed his body guard, and balance and peace was restored to the Pixie's Potager... ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

In the corner of the Pixies, Potager sits an experiment in combining sacred geometry, electroculture, and classical music and frequencies... It has been named the Agora Spiral garden and us everyone's favorite space in the Potager... The plants grow taller here, stronger, and are more sociable with one another... or so, it seems. It's a curious thing how much nature loves particular geometry such as fractals and uses it to create absolutely everything. And when nature is in harmony....it's contagious! ‎@verityhouseinspired9184

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The adventure of rewilding the Pixies has taken us down some very interesting paths of discovery and our experiment with the topic of Electroculture in the Pixies Potager has been at the top of that interesting list. Nikola Tesla famously said that to discover the secrets of the universe, one must think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration… So, when we happened upon the concept of Electro-Culture it immediately intrigued us. We set about investigating the veracity of its claims and attempting to create our own garden experiments using single strand solid copper wire fashioned into antennas, vortexed tepees and open sided copper collars. We eagerly observed our garden “laboratory”, tending to our plants carefully and attempting to identify if there was anything to the controversial theory of harnessing atmospheric energy for the benefit of the garden. It turns out that our plants were delighted with our energetic little project, and we were happily surprised by our quantifiable results! I suspect that Nikola Tesla was correct and that what we don’t yet know, regarding the mysteries of our universe, far outweighs what we do know. I also suspect that much of what we think we know doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what is possible in our world. Video and Images Lightning Strike/Elsa Luebing/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Earth Zoom In/aRTHUR// courtesy of www.videvo.net Macro Seedling Time-Lapse CC-/NatureClip/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Flicking Through Book 2/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Putting Slide Under Microscope/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Old Press Machine/Orkidea Turkesa/ courtesy of www.videvo.net UK Flag Flying on Westminster/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Union Jack Ensign Flag/PVP/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Vintage Map Pan Across to India/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Vintage Map Pan Across to Europe 2/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Pouring Coffee/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Portrait Of Waitress Holding Cups Of Coffee And Going To The Bar While Her Male Co Worker Preparing More Behind At The Coffee Machine/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Panning Across the UK on a Vintage Map/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Lightning Arc/proper33/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Eiffel Tower Wide Shot/Videvo/ courtesy of www.videvo.net De l'électricité des végétaux : ouvrage dans lequel on traite de l'électricité de l'atmosphère sur les plantes, de ses effets sur l'économie des végétaux, de leurs vertus médico & nutritivo-électriques, & principalement des moyens de pratique de l'appliquer utilement à l'agriculture, avec l'invention d'un électro-végétomètre/Bertholon, M. l'abbé (Pierre), 1742-1800/ https://archive.org/details/dellectrici00bert/page/n491/mode/2up The British cultivator and agricultural review/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=PRsFAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.RA1-PA72&printsec=frontcover On Electro-Culyure/ the Farmer’s Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92292#page/488/mode/1up Northern Lights 2/subcity/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Electricity in agriculture and horticulture/Lemström/https://archive.org/details/cu31924003336116/page/10/mode/2up Electroculture/ Justin Christofleau/https://archive.org/details/Electroculture_127/page/n21/mode/2up https://agrinatura-eu.eu/news/the-use-of-electro-culture-for-plant-growth-in-china/ https://phys.org/news/2022-01-chinese-electroculture-theorized.html Music A Moment Of Bliss/Clarence Reed/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com By Grace/ Clarence Reed/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com In It for the Sugar Rush/Raymond Grouse/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com One for You, Three for Me/ Raymond Grouse/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Quiche for Two/ Raymond Grouse/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Roscoe’s Dream/Philip Ayers/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Sail Away/ Clarence Reed/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Set Off// Clarence Reed/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Summer at Grandma’s/ Raymond Grouse/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Unforeseen/ Clarence Reed/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com You Can’t Tame a Dragonfly/ Raymond Grouse/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

If you, like the golden Pixie, have an aversion to all potato dishes that have not first required the cut-up tubers to be dipped into hot bubbling oil until crispy, before being served… it is probably best you avoid this video. For the rest of us who love potatoes, I wonder if you have found that the bags of potatoes from the grocery store, as of late, have been determined to be plants and avoid ending up on our plates altogether. Recently, in the little house where the Pixies live, we have found ourselves in an unwinnable race to get a bag of potatoes home and use them before they manage to turn a lovely shade of chartreuse and break out in sprouts all over. The only thing we could think to do was to plant the little upstarts and let them do a little multiplication on their own…a math we could all get behind! -Video’s & Image’s- Asian Sailboat Floating on the Sunset Waters/YuNu/ courtesy of www.videvo.net Close Up Shot Of Person Packing Basic Food Items In Supermarket Shopping Basket Into Paper Bag/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Close Up of USA Flag Flying/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Earth Globe Rotation (Loop) / Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Flicking Through Book 1/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net French Flag atop the Musee National/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Image by Jing from Pixabay Man Plating Up Potatoes Onto His Plate During Family Dinner/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Man Transporting Fresh Potatoes/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Moorea wispy clouds timelapse view/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Panning Across the UK on a Vintage Map/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Person Checking Bill Or Receipt For Supermarket Shopping Basket Full Of Basic Food Items/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Photo by Dr. Thomas G. Barnes, USFWS on Pixnio POTATO CROP ON FARM NEAR ATHERTON, QLD/ Willem van Aken/ courtesy of www.scienceimage.csiro.au Potato Tire Tower 4/Tony Buser/ courtesy of www.flickr.com The Artist's Garden At Eragny, 1898/ Camille Pissarro / courtesy of www.publicdomainpictures.net Tracking In Man Peeling Potatoes in Kitchen/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Tracking Shot Approaching Graves In Church Yard/ Videvo/courtesy of www.videvo.net Vintage Globe South America 1/ courtesy of www.videvo.net -Music Featured- Dare and Do/Golden Age Radio/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Gold Rush/Mac Taboel/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Here’s To Us/Nicky Dowling/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Lickety Split/Moins Le Quartet/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Stumbling Down the Boulevard/The Fly Guy Five/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Sweet Sweet Honey/Birdies/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Tell It To Sweeney/Golden Age Radio/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Vintage Dream (Instrumental Version)/Mathilda June/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Where To Next/Ritchie Everett/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Window Shopping In New York/The Fly Guy Five/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

Rewilding the Pixies means being willing to collect stray plants of every variety to add to the colorful collection of Leafy folks in the Pixies Potager. Any suggestion that the potager has limited space is met with immediate disapproval, as there is always room for more plants and such negative attitude has no place in the Pixies world. After all variety is the spice of life! Also, there was that ignominious decision by “yours truly” to attempt to rid the garden of snails via a rather antiquated method which went sideways almost immediately and led to the Pixies instituting a Snail Relocation and Rehabilitation process…. which is, shall we say…. thriving. (No snails have been harmed in the making of this video…. however, some leaves have been turned into intricate lacey art projects by the wee villainous shelled folk.) In the end perhaps the Bard expressed it best when he wrote in The Merchant of Venice, “The quality of Mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes..” However, I suspect he didn’t have snails in mind when he wrote these famous lines…. -Music- Good Thing Gone/Rich in Rags/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Greetings My Dear Fellows/Mac Taboel/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Snap Happy/Ritchie Everett/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Swag On/Mary Riddle/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Where To Next/Ritchie Everett/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com Wicked Man/Martin Landstorm/ courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com