Nutrition: Growing Food
Popularity
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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