As I know that people grow Spirulina in ponds that are protected and the quality is checked to reach organic food standards. Here, in the USA, there are plenty of producers of Spirulina. I buy only organic Spirulina.
My problem with spirulina is that I don't care for the taste, and I believe that the body craves what it needs (unless it has developed sugar or junk food dependency). Of course, I can be wrong and I am using the wrong analogy.
Better than any cultivated food, in my opinion, are the weeds that most of us have been taught are noxious, and deserve to be killed (with chemical herbicides being most often employed).
I believe that they are better because they are always hardier, often have better nutrition profiles than many cultivars, and are nearly impossible to destroy, even with considering this war against our environment that is being waged, with engineered weather and broadcasted poisons of various nature being spread in many ways.
A common weed, amaranth, is nearly impossible to kill, even with chemicals, and is very prolific throughout the US, and everyone knows of dandelions, which are super good, and go mainly unused, with every part being edible.
The roots of many plants can be stored longer than their aerial parts, and are often nutritionally dense.
There are too many "weeds" to list here, but I believe that to learn of the ones that grow around you is a worthwhile pursuit, and can be fun, while getting exercise, and other meaningful interactions with our earthen world, aside from the honorable, worthy act of gathering ones own food (how novel!).
Something I have seen many times throughout my life, though, is that people do not always use the best sense in regards to where they harvest wild foods from, so I mention here to NEVER pick from alongside train tracks or major roadways, unless you want to experiment with your health.
Also, like with all things in life, do your own due diligence, and make sure of the identification of the plant(s), or whatever wild food(s), such as the several edible and delicious mushrooms that are out, free, in nature, to be had for the simple, honest labor of finding and harvesting them.
Many families in diverse areas across the US supplemented their diets with common weeds during the Great Depression, and such an event seems to be possibly forming right now.
Much of the required knowledge of this sort should have been placed in your "kit" already, ideally, but it is never too late to learn such. There are Many good books on such .
These days people seem to be thinking that their phone or computer is always going to be there, holding all their valuable info safe, but I don't believe any such, and prefer non-electric info storage, like books, or , better yet, committed to memory.
The best tasting food I have ever eaten has been the simplest food, gathered from nature by my own two hands, while being hungry far afield, with no store nearby; and much, if not most, of the "food" they are selling us is pure poisonous trash, anyhow.
I cringe to see all of my fellow earthlings filling theirselves with it, especially the McCrap that many still eat, and especially the little zombie-eyed children with their CrappyMeals... I was one of those kids, way back, as my parents were completely trusting, for the most part, of the Bread and Circus, of the Federal Bureaus of A-Z, of the American Way of consumption for all, (regardless of the effects -- Just EAT IT!), and generally did not seem to realize that we were all being fed a bunch of lies by a few liars, alas.... Thank you, Edward Bernays!
I wonder why nobody talks about Spirulina as nutraceutical food. Dr.Christopher Hills mentioned his Japanese friend who lived only on Spirulina for 15 years: https://treatforlife.com/best-qualities-of-spirulina/. There is a book Spirulina in Human Nutrition and Health written by doctors M.E. Gershwin and Amha Bealy. This algae will keep you nourished and healthy.
We started a garden this year- mixed results so far and there's no way we could live off of it yet. I also bought some rain barrels and filled them up with water in the basement. The sad thing is I take long walks around my neighborhood and only a handful of people have gardens. I hope other people are secretly prepping but I doubt it.
I'm in Netherlands for about 4 years. Here I cannot sow anything as I have no garden for it. Before coming here I used to sow and plant almost everything I eat, in my garden in Portugal. From 1000 square meters I only used half of it. More than enough to supply my family with potatoes, carrots, garlic, onions, spinach, tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peas, chickpea, courgette, all kind of cabbages, melon, peppers, hot peppers, even tobacco.
Only with water because if there's rain I'm safe with a 40 cubic meters reservoir to collect rain water from the roofs.
Only potatoes I always cure otherwise I get nothing to harvest.
I'm a city guy. I was born and lived all my life in Lisbon, but when I made 26 I started to think to myself way wait for retirement to live where I really enjoyed to live? About my thirties I moved to my grandfather village where I have always went on summer vacation. Since then I've started to learn how to grow my own food. It's quite easy if one has the will. Year after year you learn with your mistakes and you get better. Less of this, more of that and so on. Personally having my hands on the dirt is something I miss every days. That's why I'm gonna rethink my life and most probably I will return to my homeland.
FYI, December 2021 I've paid 140 EUR for 150 m3 gas consumption. January 2022, there was no Ukraine war and for the same 150 m3 I've paid 340 EUR.
Now it's even better. Starting 20th October, each cubic meter will go from 1,88 EUR to 3,44 EUR. Electricity kWh will go from 0,46 EUR to 1,04 EUR. This on the top of escalating food prices.
I'm expecting between 500 and 600 EUR bills only for gas and electricity. Also expecting a surge in crime rates.
I'm really thinking about going to spend the winter in my homeland to see what's gonna happen. There even with blackouts I can heat my entire home as the wood is almost for free,when it's not free. Heat and cook at the same time. My fireplace has an oven.
Portugal was the first country whose Supreme Court ruled that the CPR tests were no good, but that didn't mean the politicians stopped the "covid" theater, did it?
What's going on there these days?
Growing, while the chemtrails are in action is also dubitable... Foil tents?
I've been there 5 weeks one month ago and no chemtrails on the skies. Anyway, with or without chemtrails my garden was always full of food. Rather eat my own food with chemtrails than supermarket food full of poison chemicals.
All the parties are bought by wef. They all follow the same guidelines.
I built a 24 ft x 4 ft vegetable raised bed in my back yard. Cedar. They dumped in my driveway enough soil to fill it up. It’s gonna be pretty. Wish I could post a pic. We’re building content to teach others how to do the same. If you have an email I can send you pics.
You would be our first to add to our currently non existent email list. 🙌🏻
We’ve been so busy building this monstrosity. Just about ready to start with seeds and seedlings. I can send you a pic if you get me your email. Thank you
My wife and I have been doing this for two years, but only an extremely limited types of fruits/vegetables grow. Also, store-bought stuff is sterilized with UV, so it cannot be planted.
Same here, the soil is crappy, so I used the Tartar bottomless horse troughs, they work fine until you hit an extreme heat 110 periods with no rain. At 74, I couldn't get anyone to build me an 8x8 ft garden space. I have only one spot to plant in. So had to watch farm market sales, and grocery stores, I can taste the can taste, so I canned what I could. Buckets of dry beans, pasta in original wrappers, flour, sugar, oatmeal, and spices, I put in glass jars. In a low-light room. 2021 saw some great sales on laundry products, shampoos, and bar soaps, so that is stocked. The hard part is Senior items like Denture Adhesives price EXPOLISION. We learned already what works best, and that is Fixident Gum, now $15.00 a tube from $4.00. The vitamins we take have gone up in price, and longer ship times.
BTW any clickbait ad product saying it is made in the USA, IS CHINA MADE. READ CAREFULLY ANY LINK ON THE SITE. 1 ZIP CODE HAS 15 MILLION RE-SELLERS. Make sure it has a phone number that works. As our measurement system is not Metric. Or they send what they have on hand. Dispute it with them, and your CC company. They offer bribes for you to keep products that DON'T FIT. Amazon if it has a Shipping fee it is China or foreign-made. Keep all communication.
As I know that people grow Spirulina in ponds that are protected and the quality is checked to reach organic food standards. Here, in the USA, there are plenty of producers of Spirulina. I buy only organic Spirulina.
My problem with spirulina is that I don't care for the taste, and I believe that the body craves what it needs (unless it has developed sugar or junk food dependency). Of course, I can be wrong and I am using the wrong analogy.
Better than any cultivated food, in my opinion, are the weeds that most of us have been taught are noxious, and deserve to be killed (with chemical herbicides being most often employed).
I believe that they are better because they are always hardier, often have better nutrition profiles than many cultivars, and are nearly impossible to destroy, even with considering this war against our environment that is being waged, with engineered weather and broadcasted poisons of various nature being spread in many ways.
A common weed, amaranth, is nearly impossible to kill, even with chemicals, and is very prolific throughout the US, and everyone knows of dandelions, which are super good, and go mainly unused, with every part being edible.
The roots of many plants can be stored longer than their aerial parts, and are often nutritionally dense.
There are too many "weeds" to list here, but I believe that to learn of the ones that grow around you is a worthwhile pursuit, and can be fun, while getting exercise, and other meaningful interactions with our earthen world, aside from the honorable, worthy act of gathering ones own food (how novel!).
Something I have seen many times throughout my life, though, is that people do not always use the best sense in regards to where they harvest wild foods from, so I mention here to NEVER pick from alongside train tracks or major roadways, unless you want to experiment with your health.
Also, like with all things in life, do your own due diligence, and make sure of the identification of the plant(s), or whatever wild food(s), such as the several edible and delicious mushrooms that are out, free, in nature, to be had for the simple, honest labor of finding and harvesting them.
Many families in diverse areas across the US supplemented their diets with common weeds during the Great Depression, and such an event seems to be possibly forming right now.
Much of the required knowledge of this sort should have been placed in your "kit" already, ideally, but it is never too late to learn such. There are Many good books on such .
These days people seem to be thinking that their phone or computer is always going to be there, holding all their valuable info safe, but I don't believe any such, and prefer non-electric info storage, like books, or , better yet, committed to memory.
The best tasting food I have ever eaten has been the simplest food, gathered from nature by my own two hands, while being hungry far afield, with no store nearby; and much, if not most, of the "food" they are selling us is pure poisonous trash, anyhow.
I cringe to see all of my fellow earthlings filling theirselves with it, especially the McCrap that many still eat, and especially the little zombie-eyed children with their CrappyMeals... I was one of those kids, way back, as my parents were completely trusting, for the most part, of the Bread and Circus, of the Federal Bureaus of A-Z, of the American Way of consumption for all, (regardless of the effects -- Just EAT IT!), and generally did not seem to realize that we were all being fed a bunch of lies by a few liars, alas.... Thank you, Edward Bernays!
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I wonder why nobody talks about Spirulina as nutraceutical food. Dr.Christopher Hills mentioned his Japanese friend who lived only on Spirulina for 15 years: https://treatforlife.com/best-qualities-of-spirulina/. There is a book Spirulina in Human Nutrition and Health written by doctors M.E. Gershwin and Amha Bealy. This algae will keep you nourished and healthy.
Good question. Possibly, the microplastics in the ocean and Fukushima may not make for the best seafood?
We started a garden this year- mixed results so far and there's no way we could live off of it yet. I also bought some rain barrels and filled them up with water in the basement. The sad thing is I take long walks around my neighborhood and only a handful of people have gardens. I hope other people are secretly prepping but I doubt it.
I'm in Netherlands for about 4 years. Here I cannot sow anything as I have no garden for it. Before coming here I used to sow and plant almost everything I eat, in my garden in Portugal. From 1000 square meters I only used half of it. More than enough to supply my family with potatoes, carrots, garlic, onions, spinach, tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peas, chickpea, courgette, all kind of cabbages, melon, peppers, hot peppers, even tobacco.
Only with water because if there's rain I'm safe with a 40 cubic meters reservoir to collect rain water from the roofs.
Only potatoes I always cure otherwise I get nothing to harvest.
I'm a city guy. I was born and lived all my life in Lisbon, but when I made 26 I started to think to myself way wait for retirement to live where I really enjoyed to live? About my thirties I moved to my grandfather village where I have always went on summer vacation. Since then I've started to learn how to grow my own food. It's quite easy if one has the will. Year after year you learn with your mistakes and you get better. Less of this, more of that and so on. Personally having my hands on the dirt is something I miss every days. That's why I'm gonna rethink my life and most probably I will return to my homeland.
FYI, December 2021 I've paid 140 EUR for 150 m3 gas consumption. January 2022, there was no Ukraine war and for the same 150 m3 I've paid 340 EUR.
Now it's even better. Starting 20th October, each cubic meter will go from 1,88 EUR to 3,44 EUR. Electricity kWh will go from 0,46 EUR to 1,04 EUR. This on the top of escalating food prices.
I'm expecting between 500 and 600 EUR bills only for gas and electricity. Also expecting a surge in crime rates.
I'm really thinking about going to spend the winter in my homeland to see what's gonna happen. There even with blackouts I can heat my entire home as the wood is almost for free,when it's not free. Heat and cook at the same time. My fireplace has an oven.
Portugal was the first country whose Supreme Court ruled that the CPR tests were no good, but that didn't mean the politicians stopped the "covid" theater, did it?
What's going on there these days?
Growing, while the chemtrails are in action is also dubitable... Foil tents?
I've been there 5 weeks one month ago and no chemtrails on the skies. Anyway, with or without chemtrails my garden was always full of food. Rather eat my own food with chemtrails than supermarket food full of poison chemicals.
All the parties are bought by wef. They all follow the same guidelines.
MSM the same. It's global.
Sorry, I was wondering about the "covid" theater in Portugal...
One of the worsts I think. One month ago they were still using face masks everywhere.
A lot of tips in this book.
A call it permaculture Bible.
https://idoc.pub/download/permaculture-a-designers-manual-bill-mollison-on23r1v7opl0
I built a 24 ft x 4 ft vegetable raised bed in my back yard. Cedar. They dumped in my driveway enough soil to fill it up. It’s gonna be pretty. Wish I could post a pic. We’re building content to teach others how to do the same. If you have an email I can send you pics.
Sounds fantastic! Is there a mailing list I can go on, for when you share info?
You would be our first to add to our currently non existent email list. 🙌🏻
We’ve been so busy building this monstrosity. Just about ready to start with seeds and seedlings. I can send you a pic if you get me your email. Thank you
Thanks! It's cmoon@btinternet.com
My wife and I have been doing this for two years, but only an extremely limited types of fruits/vegetables grow. Also, store-bought stuff is sterilized with UV, so it cannot be planted.
Same here, the soil is crappy, so I used the Tartar bottomless horse troughs, they work fine until you hit an extreme heat 110 periods with no rain. At 74, I couldn't get anyone to build me an 8x8 ft garden space. I have only one spot to plant in. So had to watch farm market sales, and grocery stores, I can taste the can taste, so I canned what I could. Buckets of dry beans, pasta in original wrappers, flour, sugar, oatmeal, and spices, I put in glass jars. In a low-light room. 2021 saw some great sales on laundry products, shampoos, and bar soaps, so that is stocked. The hard part is Senior items like Denture Adhesives price EXPOLISION. We learned already what works best, and that is Fixident Gum, now $15.00 a tube from $4.00. The vitamins we take have gone up in price, and longer ship times.
BTW any clickbait ad product saying it is made in the USA, IS CHINA MADE. READ CAREFULLY ANY LINK ON THE SITE. 1 ZIP CODE HAS 15 MILLION RE-SELLERS. Make sure it has a phone number that works. As our measurement system is not Metric. Or they send what they have on hand. Dispute it with them, and your CC company. They offer bribes for you to keep products that DON'T FIT. Amazon if it has a Shipping fee it is China or foreign-made. Keep all communication.