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Hummus

Yield: 1 quart 3 ½ cups chick-pea sprouts (or peanut sprouts) 1 cup water from steaming Juice from 2 lemons 1 cup tahini 1 cup dried parsley (optional) 1 tablespoon curry powder ½ cup radish sprouts Place the chick-pea or peanut sprouts in a steamer for 15 minutes....

Clover Cover Salad Dressing

Yield: 1 quart 1 quart clover sprouts, tightly packed ½ cup lemon juice ½ cup water 2 celery stalks, coarsely chopped ½ cup tahini 1 tablespoon fennel seeds, ground (or anise) 1 tablespoon kelp Place the clover sprouts, lemon juice, and water in a blender. Blend, add...

Using the AquaTree to Improve Your Diet

Using the AquaTree™ on a regular basis can have a positive impact on your life in many ways. And the most prominent one is by helping you on your health journey. It’s well known that eating green can improve your well being, but in this post, we want to explore...

Succession Planting

Succession planting can be simple. In traditional gardening, it is the practice of staggering your planting in a way that extends the life of your garden, allowing you multiple harvests. Techniques include growing larger crops with smaller ones, fast growing crops...

Benefits of Eating Superfoods

First, What are Superfoods? The term “superfood” has been around since the early 20th century, and was initially used as a phrase coined to sell more bananas (no, really!). Since then, it has been used by various medical and dietary professionals as a term to indicate...

Sustainability / Sustainable Farming: What it is and Why it Matters

Sustainable Agriculture As our world continues to develop and industrialize, there have been more and more demands for sustainability and environmental justice. One area in particular need of sustainable action is the farming industry, but what exactly is sustainable...

Agricultural Education

In our ever-industrializing world, consumers are moving further and further away from their source of food. To many people, this increasing distance is relatively unimportant as long as the source of food remains consistent. To most Americans, however, this apparent...

Therapeutic Effects/Benefits of Growing in your Home

Having indoor plants and home gardens has often been regarded as hobbies solely for those with a so-called “green thumb”. This unfortunate assumption, however, suggests that gardening and growing plants are reserved for a select few in possession of the “magic touch”...