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How to Make Sparkling Dandelion Mead. Celebrate spring with a new twist on the “nectar of the gods” Credit: Dandelions, like many other “weeds,” are among the most nutritious and medicinal foods on the planet.

How to Make Sparkling Dandelion Mead

They’re also one of the most delicious when fermented with honey into this health-promoting elixir. Also known as “honey-wine,” it’s made simply by adding water and yeast to honey, along with any other fruit flavorings and spices you like. Perhaps the first fermented beverage on the planet, mead has been revered for its medicinal properties for thousands of years. Ancient Greeks called it “the nectar of the gods,” believing it promoted virility. A 2014 study bolsters the ancient superstitions, finding the lactic acid bacteria in mead made of raw honey is highly effective at fighting off antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including MRSA. Raw honey also contains pollen, which has more proteins than meat. Mead originated in Africa more than 20,000 years ago. During the rainy season, their nests would fill with water. Ingredients. Winter Fruits: 8 Garden Additions For The Cold Months. As the summer winds its way into fall, it’s a good time to start thinking about preparing your garden for the darker, cooler days ahead.

Winter Fruits: 8 Garden Additions For The Cold Months

Hopefully, you’ve made dandelion wine, dried all your herbs, and canned all your fresh veggies to keep healthy foods around all winter. But how can you prepare for a year-round abundance in your garden? Depending on where you live in the U.S., you may be able to either prep your fruit plants and trees for warmer growing season or keep fresh fruits growing through the season. 11 Healthy Grains You Should Add To Your Diet. As a chef and educator, I get asked all the time about healthy grains.

11 Healthy Grains You Should Add To Your Diet

Some of the healthiest grains are amaranth, barley, buckwheat, corn, kaniwa, millet, oats, quinoa, rice, teff, and wheat. Speaking very generally, there are two schools of thoughts about grains: one believes that grains can be a healthy part of a plant-based or clean-eating diet. But the other school believes that grains are terrible for our body and we should avoid grains at all costs. While I’m no doctor and I definitely encourage people to eat what feels best for their body and/or what their medical practitioner recommends, I’m firmly in the camp that thinks grains are awesome!

Eat Your Weeds: 10 Delicious Invasive Plant Species. Once considered a nuisance, more and more “weeds” are making their way into the kitchen and onto the menus of high-end restaurants Farmers and gardeners are giving up fighting many of the invasive plants they once considered “weeds,” and selling them to chefs, CSAs and health food stores, making better profit for less labor.

Eat Your Weeds: 10 Delicious Invasive Plant Species

Not only are these weeds making them more money than many of their traditional crops, because of their “invasive” nature, they take no work at all to grow. Invasive plant species produce large quantities of seeds that are spread long distances by birds, wind or humans. They thrive where traditional agricultural crops can no longer grow because of damaged soil and repair the soil with their long, dense root systems. While most farmers hate them for competing with their labor-intensive, annual crops, New York City forager, chef and author Marie Viljoen encourages them to give in to the free food Mother Nature is providing without them so much as lifting a hoe.

MagiczKa: Ocet z pokrzyw. Nazbierałam masę pokrzywy, surowca na herbatę jeszcze dozbieram więc, co z górą ziela?

MagiczKa: Ocet z pokrzyw

Oczywiście ocet :) Jeszcze tylko jakie działanie ma pokrzywa i przystępujemy do pracy... Ziele i liść pokrzywy wykazują działanie: moczopędnesaluretyczneprzeciwobrzękoweprzeciwkrwotoczne (hamujące krwawienia)pobudzające krążenie krwi (rozgrzewające)odżywczehipoglikemiczne (obniżające poziom glukozy we krwi)przeciwmiażdżycoweodtruwająceprzeciwkamicze (utrudniające tworzenie kamieni moczowych)regulujące przemianę materiipobudzające procesy odnowy (regeneracji) tkanekkrwiotwórcze (zwiększa liczbę krwinek czerwonych i hemoglobiny we krwi)hamujące stany zapalne w układzie moczowym i przewodzie pokarmowympobudzające układ odpornościowy - zwiększając odporność na infekcje (immunostymulator)wspomagające trawienie i przyswajanie składników pokarmowych.

Jako depurativa (środek czyszczący krew) poprawiają stan zdrowotny osób cierpiących na choroby reumatyczne. Wskazania: Ocet z pokrzyw: Jak stosować: Acorns As Survival Food: How To Cook And Even Make Coffee And Burgers With Acorns. Fall is knocking at our doors and this season comes with chilly weather, fallen leaves and lots of acorns.

Acorns As Survival Food: How To Cook And Even Make Coffee And Burgers With Acorns

If you have an oak tree in your garden your yard is probably full of acorns that you use for autumn crafts projects. Well, you can also cook and eat them and even make coffee out of these. Acorns contain high amounts of nutrients and also Vitamins B12, B6 and they can be perfect sources of fiber, so they are also a perfect survival food. But in order to know how to consume acorns, you need to learn more about the different types that you can find. For examples, green acorns can’t be consumed and raw acorns can also be toxic for humans. Acorn Burgers Ingredients: 1 cup minced acorn (cooked and spiced) 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup self rising cornmeal 1/3 cup whole wheat flour Canola oil for pan frying.