Did you know that flower growers have used molasses to feed the blooms for decades in order to get stronger and longer lasting blossoms? Molasses supplies trace minerals along with bio-available sugars to feed the plant immediately.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Fake bees?
This just in from the Boston Business Journal: Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Science got a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to run a five-year project to build RoboBees. Yep, fake bees to pollinate… Why?
Endurance and Force: Cordyceps and Creatine / Natural Support for Athletes, and the Rest of Us
Cordyceps: The Oxygenator. Cordyceps is a rare, high-altitude Tibetan mushroom with a bizarre and disturbing life cycle. In the wild, a cordyceps spore will float through the air until it lands on an insect. It infects the insect, sending its mycelium (the “root” part of the mushroom) throughout the insect’s body, killing it and transforming it, at least partly, into fungal biomass. Then the fruiting body (the above-ground part of the mushroom) sprouts out the insect like creepy antlers.
And then somebody finds it and does a celebratory dance, because wild cordyceps goes for upwards of $5,000 a pound. Then they sell it to you, and you eat it, insect and all. And you get to experience one of the most profound tonics in herbal medicine.
Mango Berry Chia Pudding
Chia (Salvia hispanica)is fun food! Man has been eating chia since the Common Era, in other words, way before chia pets were popular in the 60s. The word “chia” comes from the Mayan word for “strengthening,” and Aztecs used chia to relieve joint pain, for energy, and in religious ceremonies. Today we know that chia seeds are a rich plant source of omega-3’s, and three tablespoons of the seeds yields 200 mg of usable, absorbable calcium. High in fiber? Absolutely.
