POTSDAM -- Peak Moment TV, aired on WCKN-TV, Monday, April 13 and Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m., host Janaia Donaldson invites guest Carol Deppe to explain how to grow the most produce for the least work; and in a small plot.

Deppe reveals her secret for an effortless way to grow tons of nutritious greens: "I spent five minutes spreading the compost on the driveway, two minutes sprinkling the seed, and maybe five minutes to harvest the whole patch. And I had maybe twenty pounds of nutritious leafy greens."

From this spur-of-the-moment idea, plant breeder Carol Deppe spent decades finding the most productive "eat-all greens" varieties with edible stalks. With three or four crops a year in a bed no larger than 4x12 feet, you can produce a couple hundred pounds of greens.

The author of The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, Deppe believes that this could revolutionize nutritious food production in urban food deserts, small plots and even commercial greens production.

Now in its seventh year locally, Peak Moment TV programs air every week at 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday on WCKN, Time Warner Digital 30. Peak Moment explores locally reliant living for challenging times. The programs are underwritten locally by The Center for Excellence in Communication at Clarkson University and the Seymour Family of Potsdam.

Peak Moment topics include local food production, renewable energy, transportation alternatives, sustainable building, preparedness and psychological, business, and governmental responses. All the programs are available on the internet at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/ in both video and audio format.

More than 80 Peak Moment TV shows are now available on DVDs which can be borrowed from the Potsdam Public Library from the collection of shows purchased for broadcast locally.