Eat Your Greens

10/19/2022

If you are a fan of Richo Cech, the guy that wrote the ‘The Medicinal Herb Grower’ and ‘Making Plant Medicine’, he just released a new book and if you order it this week you will receive a signed copy!

“Theory and practice of natural garden techniques, newly augmented with bioregional medicinal plant recommendations, garden plans and materia medica. Arranged by plant families, alphabetically by kinship and common name. Families A through H. The rest of the alphabet will be left to Volume 2, whic...

12/19/2021

Hey everyone! I made a round of broccoli micro greens that I grew hydroponically into a shelf in my kitchen! In this post you can catch the process from start to finish! I first lay down the seeds into a plastic tray with holes in it. This tray gets placed into the second tray with the white rectangle pvc. The second tray hold nutrient water, and the white thing gets plugged into a water pump that blows air into the water. The seed tray gets covered with sand bags as weight, and covered in the dark for about a week. The seeds push up 4 lbs of weight, making long stems while in the dark. Then I take the weights off and uncover it, and keep it under lights for 3 days.

I’m giving out free samples today in my booth at the holiday market!

Come say hi, I am in space 96!

Happy holidays!

12/01/2021

So I ran out of my salt spray that I use to texture my hair, and decided to make my own. It turned out amazing! I even reused the bottle since it sprays so nicely. Here’s the recipe: 1 tablespoon sea salt 1 cup distilled water
Dried seaweed
Juice from an aloe leaf
(Boil those things, remove from heat, allow to cool)
Fill into your bottle leaving room on the top like an inch.
Fill with Rose water
1 tsp olive oil
Your favorite essential oils
(I used bergamot, rose, and sandlewood)
Shake it up spray your locks!!

09/16/2021

Some of my harvest from my garden! I pickled my heirloom jalapeños, Serranos, cayenne, onion, and garlic. Had enough for a big jar! Also broiled my heirloom tomatoes that I will next cook down into a sauce. Not pictured is all my poblanos! I char-roasted them, and just stuck them in my food dehydrator. What kinds of things are you doing to preserve your food?

09/12/2021

Check out this free 1 hour webinar being offered through OSU. All about having native plant species in your garden and how to help our pollinator friends!

Native plant gardening has been ranked as one of the top three landscape and garden trends over the past few years, in part because of the benefits that they offer to pollinators. However, native plants are not widely planted by home gardeners, and only limited selections can be found at many retail...

07/07/2021

07/02/2021

I bought this echinacea plant down at the farmers market 2 years ago. It never made any flowers, but has come back every year. It’s now the third summer and it’s going nuts. I have tall stands and one blossom, all from one plant. I keep it in a pot haven’t planted it into the ground. Can’t wait to grow some myself. I bought some seeds and they have been stratifying in the fridge for a while, I think I’m going to plant them soon and see if they come up.

06/04/2021

There been a few little set backs to the continuation of selling micros at the Farmers Market! I will have free samples of broccoli micros at my Tshirt booth this weekend at the Saturday Market! If you stop by I will give you some!

I plan at being at the Tuesday farmers market again in a couple weeks, when I have more funds together to buy seeds. I also have not had success growing my basil! I have tried about 3X now and they have all died. But I’m collecting data, and hope to have some success basil eventually.

Funds are rolling in the next few weeks for sure! And then I would like to try Amaranth, along with some peas!

I made this smudge stick yesterday with dried mugwort I grew, with fresh calendula, rose petals, and lavender from my garden!

05/30/2021

So after filling the bottom tray pictured here with water, I add a top tray that has holes in it as well as a thin plastic mesh screen. You can see in the next photo, I sprinkle on the seeds....mist it with water and a hydrogen peroxide mix (for sterilization) and then set a foam board on top with little baggies full of sand. The sand acts as a weight. I use approximately 4lbs weights on top of the seeds. The weight tricks the seeds into thinking there’s dirt on top of them. I then put a blackout dome on top. As the seeds germinate, roots grow through the mesh screen and top tray into the bottom tray full of nutrient water. The seeds are actually so forceful that within 1 week they have pushed the foam board to the top of the top tray. Since they grow in the dark, they are all stems and roots. Once I uncover them from the dark, I hit lights on them and they grow their first leaf, blooming into beautiful colors. It’s hard to word the process so it makes sense. But hope it did. If you have any questions, just ask!

05/25/2021

So this is the bottom tray of my set up. I mentioned before I am growing my greens hydroponically. That means no soil, the roots grow down from a top tray and drink from this nutrient water reservoir. The white thing is a pvc constructed thing I made called a bubbler. I drilled holes into it, and the black tube is connected to an air pump. Air gets blown into the water to make it aerobic, oxygen kills bad bacteria cutting back on my chance of getting mold and disease on my micros!

05/21/2021

Harvested some radish and broccoli micro greens today! I took a slew of pictures so you can see the plastic food grade mesh screen I am growing them on instead of soil! The roots grow down the mesh into a reservoir of nutrient water!

05/20/2021

Got some micros growing! I’m doing them hydroponically. Which means without soil, and the roots grow downward into that second tray of nutrient water. I have a rectangle pvc bubbler I made, that sits in the water. I drilled holes into it and connected it to an air pump so now there’s air being blown into the water to kill any harmful bacteria. Probably be ready to harvest tomorrow! The left tray is broccoli, and the tray on the right is radish! This round is going to be free samples! If you are in my area and following along, DM me your address and I will drop some off!