Stacking Silver and Gold Won't Fill A Hungry Belly So I Stack Seeds and Run a Micro-Farming Operation from a Countertop
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0.000 HBDStacking Silver and Gold Won't Fill A Hungry Belly So I Stack Seeds and Run a Micro-Farming Operation from a Countertop
<html> <p>I'm not knocking <strong>Gold and Silver Stacking</strong>, in fact, I think that's a great strategy and firmly believe in physical commodities that you can hold in your hands.</p> <p>Sprouting seeds are one of those commodities and in my world, I think they are even more valuable than the highly sought after precious metals.</p> <p>Here's a picture of part of my household's seed hoard:</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnuR.jpg"/></p> <p>You can see most of my seeds are coming from a company named Mumm's. They are located in Saskatchewan, Canada and all their seeds are organic. I also have organic seeds from A.Vogel's, from Germany and seeds from Veseys Seeds, located in Prince Edward Island, Canada.</p> <p>Where ever you are getting your seeds, make sure they are for "sprouting" and I would highly recommend that you only buy organic, non-GMO. Most people who are interested in growing sprouts are also keenly interested in nutritional density. If you are making the time to grow sprouts, you want them to taste exceptional.</p> <p>Sprouts grown from organic, non-GMO seeds, taste extraordinary.</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnuN.jpg"/></p> <p>If push comes to shove, the last thing you want to be doing is lining up to buy a can of soup at a grocery store with hundreds of other people, if the Supply Chain goes down or some type of disaster strikes.</p> <p>I'm located in Canada and from my vantage point, it feels like the later is eminent for my friends to the south in the USA.</p> <p>Sprouting can be done easily with nothing more than a wide mouth jar, 4 tbsp of sprouting seeds, water, a piece of fine weave cheese cloth or thin cotton fabric, an elastic band, and a fine mesh strainer.</p> <p>Here's what to do:</p> <ol> <li>Put the 4 tbsp of seeds in a fine mesh strainer and rinse and drain them.</li> <li>Place the rinsed and drained seeds in a wide mouth jar.</li> <li>Cover the seeds with 2 cups of water and let the seeds soak for 12 hours.</li> <li>Place the cheese cloth or piece of cotton fabric over the mouth of the jar.</li> <li>Use the elastic band to hold the cloth or fabric in place over the mouth of the jar and make sure that the fabric creates a tight covering over the mouth of the jar.</li> <li>After the first 12 hours, drain the seeds by inverting the jar at an angle in a sink or large bowl.</li> <li>Rinse and drain your seeds twice a day. (You want the seeds to stay moist but not too wet.) </li> </ol> <p> In about 3 days time, the jar will be filled with growing sprouts that you can eat. Once sprouted, the sprouts should be kept in the refrigerator. They will keep for a few days, but should be consumed as soon as possible to take advantage of all the amazing nutrients.</p> <p>I never used the jar method but I did buy a small sprouter at my local health food store. It lets you rinse your trays of seeds and then the 3 sprouting trays, drain into a catch tray or reservoir at the bottom. The benefits of a wide mouth jar or a small sprouter is that they are relatively inexpensive and won't take up very much space in your kitchen. The draw-back is that you have to remember to water them regularly and they have to be drained really well or your sprouts will start to mold. </p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/26/xv9B.jpg"/></p> <p>A few years ago, I upgraded my sprouting activities and invested in an apparatus which makes sprouting seeds virtually fool proof. It's called an "Easy Green Sprouter".</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnuW.jpg"/></p> <p>I just cleaned it today, so you can see the growing space. At the back is the water reservoir and a combination fan and mister which you plug into a timer so that you can set it to mist the seeds every 6 hours.</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnu8.jpg"/></p> <p>The growing space holds the seed trays. I try to only have a single layer of seeds in the bottom of each tray. I find that most of the seeds sprout if they aren't over-crowded. The Easy Green sprouter has drainage tubes or small hoses that drain the entire system very well. So, it needs to be placed somewhere near a sink or somewhere, where you can let the hose drain into a large pail.</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnJH.jpg"/></p> <p>I have a selection of different sized trays. These units are made to stack so that you can sprout a large volume of sprouts at once. This would be important for large families or restaurants.</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnJb.jpg"/></p> <p>This is a tray of Marrowfat Peas that I am going to sprout.</p> <p><img src="http://ultraimg.com/images/2016/10/25/xnuj.jpg"/></p> <p>Here's my micro-farming kitchen garden in almost full production.</p> <p>Here is a video showing each component of the Easy Green Sprouter. It was created by the Raw Nutrition Company. It was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 8, 2013.</p> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwyaNpupwQ</p> <p>I generally try to keep lots of sprouting seeds on hand. Here's a list of the seeds I have, just to show the diversity of sprouts you can grow in your own kitchen:</p> <ol> <li>Spring Salad Mix (a blend of broccoli, radish, alfalfa, and clover);</li> <li>Crunchy Bean mix (a blend of peas, lentils and garbanzos);</li> <li>Broccoli;</li> <li>Marrowfat Peas;</li> <li>Garlic Chives;</li> <li>Red Clover;</li> <li>Alfalfa;</li> <li>Green Kale;</li> <li>Sunflower;</li> <li>and Mung Beans</li> </ol> <p>The thing about seeds and sprouts is that they are incredibly nutrient dense because they have to contain all the key elements for the plant's survival. A broccoli sprout for example, contains 50 times the nutritional benefit of full grown broccoli. Just a handful of broccoli sprouts contain as much "sulphoraphone" as a pound of full grown broccoli and in the middle of winter, nothing can beat fresh sprouts, you have harvested with your own hands, from your own kitchen. It's a precious thing.</p> <p>Physical silver and sprouting seeds are my preferred store of wealth.</p> <p>I welcome your comments and invite you to follow along with me on my journey.</p> <p>~RebeccaRyan</p> <p> </p> </html>
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