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Post by toni on Jun 13, 2012 11:06:25 GMT -5
Hi Baraka,
I know on the F-6 thread (Cilantro began getting talked about) and I know Doc wants to keep his thread about the F-6, so I'll move the "cilantro" posts here okay?
Cilantro has a great ability to remove "mercury/metals" etc from the body.
It's just down right healthy, nutritious and yummy, besides beneficial.
If you've never eaten Cilantro? Oh, you're in for a suprise. I can't live without it, hahaha I'm a Cilantro lover. Actually I eat it all the time. You can put it in salads, soups, burritos, taco's, on pork sandwiches, or any kind probably, and it's delicious in scrambled eggs too - and it's a must to putting in salsa (imho).
If you're putting it in soup, chop some up, as big or small of pieces as you want, it looks like parsley, and it's very strong (pungent) so a little goes a long way.
In a bowl of soup, I'd put 2 chopped up tablespoons worth, but I like it a lot.
We'd talked about cilantro before here, but, I don't know where that thread is.
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Post by ginna898 on Jun 13, 2012 16:01:25 GMT -5
Great information.... only problem is that (due to today's outside NORMAL conditions) ---- they grow in contaminated soil, absorb "extra radiation" from the sun and numerous other factors. Something interesting I noticed was that while shopping, I picked up a bag of peppers. I marveled at them because they looked like plastic food. As I examined them through the plastic bag I noticed the stem on the peppers were PERFECT green (like toy plastic peppers would be). Then no black specs, no bruising or ANY ANY ANY variation in color. Each pepper was PERFECTLY uniform in color and it was odd to see. We know that sun and shade will cause color variation on a pepper. One side may vary from the other due to environmental conditions. (sun, shade, etc) Well, as I marveled at the appearance on this plastic bag of six perfect peppers (yellow peppers, orange peppers and their PERFECT extraordinarily bright green stem and no brown whatsoever) ---- I read the bag. They were greenhouse grown. Then I understood. I read for a bit on "grocery store" greenhouse grown peppers. They don't use "soil". I'm still learning about all this. But, my point is that I wonder if this theory applied to the cilantro --- (i.e., grown in PERFECT conditions without soil contamination, bad nuclear radiation from our regular outside environment) ..... Would the cilantro be more effective? Would other herbs that have health advantages also be more effective in what they do? As of now, I am assuming that our herbs are grown outside in the Polluted Earth absorbing many bad environmental contaminants. (Even rainfall these days will register on a Geiger monitor showing radiation). But then, how healthy is the "medium" they are using to grow those uniform color plastic looking peppers without even 1 blemish on them? What exactly is this "medium" used to replace the soil? What water do they use in these controlled greenhouse environments? Is the "medium" Genetically Modified? Since I saw those peppers, I am searching for more information to find out if this is good or bad. We know for sure the outside normal environment is definitely adding contaminates to our food. So which is the worst of two evils? Outside grown food or food grown in a "medium" coming out looking like 'fake' toy food? (Hydro Perfect Produce Varieties) www.villagefarms.com/ProduceVarieties/HydroPerfectProduceVarieties/SweetBellPeppers/SweetBells.aspxYou can read these tomatoes were Greenhouse grown on the container: VIDEO: Discover The Secrets Of Growing Vegetables in Greenhouse Environment. Watch How The Professional Greenhouse Growers Do It. Learn From The Plant Doctor How To Grow Greenhouse Sweet Peppers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yrme1q5gFw
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Post by toni on Jun 14, 2012 9:04:46 GMT -5
Hi Ginna, I looked a bit to see what I could find too on that subject of hydro growing, and found this blog, which this person isn't too happy about the hydro veggies. Sounds like they may be a farmer themselves by what they've written. And from reading "this person's" complaints, I'm now wondering how true this is, IF the nutrients really are lessened because of the way it's grown, because I sure don't know....but it got my attention on that specific issue too. I read they don't use pesticides, which is a good thing, but also I'm now wondering "what kind of water" is used, because that's a big part of this also, if they're defeating their purpose or not. www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/organic-hydroponic-produce-not-for-me/
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Post by toni on Jun 14, 2012 9:14:39 GMT -5
This is only a link for the (do-it-yourself-er) but the last paragraph: Agregate Culture: Aggregate culture refers to the solid media used to grow plants and veggies without soil. Materials such as sand, gravel, vermiculite, rice hulls, redwood bark, pine bark, peat moss, perlite, sawdust, wood shavings, or rockwool. (this might help for the "medium") in asking, if you write that company to ask if they use the same, like bark and rice hulls for example and if those too are organic or not. www.hydroasis.com/growingtips/growingveggieswithoutsoil.shtml
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