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Nutrition: Growing Food

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Gardening: Soil Mineralization
15-Dec-2012
What did Paracelsus say about rocks? I live in the Chicago suburbs and I started using rock dust on my own apartment garden about 10 years ago. At first I crushed red and black volcanic stones you can buy by the bag and fed them to my houseplant (a green shamrock plant) as an experim...
Sprouting Off at the Mouth
01-Oct-2012
More than 30 kinds of food are represented in these "rainbow" salads made by Wade. CREDIT: Photography by John McKay Judith Wade delivers 600 flats of wheatgrass to about a dozen juice bars around the region each month. CREDIT: Photography by John McKay Judith Wade is a 'sproutarian.' The eating evangelist helps people who come to her seeking a...
Kombucha Tea
25-Sep-2012
Kombucha tea is made from the kombucha tea "mushroom," a large, flat, pancake-shaped fungus-like growth. Technically, the kombucha is not a mushroom, nor is it purely a fungus. Rather, it is part lichen, part bacterium xylinum, and part natural yeast culture. When placed in a mixture of ordinary sugar and tea for seven to ten days, the kombucha produces both a winey-tasting health-restoring tea and a new "baby" kombucha. The history of kombucha tea can be traced back 2,00...
Sprouting: Reasons to Start
01-Oct-2012
Economics: Seeds can multiply 7-15 times their weight. At $4.00/lb for seed that yields 26 cents for a pound of fresh spouted indoor-grown organic greens! Nutrition: Sprouts are baby plants in their prime. At this stage of their growth, they have a greater concentration of protein, vitamins and minerals, enzymes, RNA, DNA, bioflavonoids, T-cell, etc., than at any other point in the plant's life--even when compared with the mature vegetable! Organic: No chemicals, fum...
Mineral Content: Organic Vs Conventional
06-Sep-2012
Comparative analysis of the nutrient content of organic and non-organic food. The shaded rows are organic produce, unshaded rows are conventional produce. Crop Calcium Magnesium Potassium Sodium Thiamin Iron Copper Snap Beans Organic 40.5 60.0 99.7 8.6 60.0 227.0 69.0 Snap Beans 15.5 14.8 29.1 <1.0 2.0 10.0 3.0 Cabbage Organic ...
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