4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD GROW YOUR OWN FOOD 

Over 50% of those who read this will instantly assume they don’t have time to grow a garden and just won’t do it, period! With those thoughts in mind, you may be missing something extremely important in your life, a big something! Read why I think it’s worth the time. I also know if you ever start growing, you’ll never stop. Read my reasons why I think growing a garden will be one of the most important things you’ll ever do, ever! 

  1. TIME: Free food alone should be enough to convince us but unfortunately convenience is something Americans love. We love it so much that we visit a grocery store 3-4 times weekly on average. That’s up from once a week during our parents’ generation. That doesn’t sound like convenience to me! Zipping in and out of mega giant supermarkets 3-4 times a week, after a 5 minute parking space search. Then a hundred yard car dodging dash, just to get in the front door!  Do the math, 3 hours per week relishing in a beautiful holistic garden growing healthy life-sustaining food, or 6-10 hours burning gas and raising your blood pressure. If you need to graduate into this growing thing slowly, visit and support your local farmers markets.You’ll find that it just takes a couple of hours weekly to find everything you need. Ask the farmers questions, most don’t mind and will lead you in the right direction, they’re good folks.  
  2. SAVINGS: How much do you spend purchasing cheap (less than healthy) produce? Possibly over one hundred dollars monthly and much more if you have a large family. Have you ever calculated exactly how much you spend? You might be surprised, and also happy to find out how much you can save just by enjoying the great blessings mother nature has to offer. Not to mention, ‘’free food’’. It’s very well possible to save somewhere between one and ten thousand dollars annually on your grocery bill. I sincerely hope this is starting to sound interesting, great health and deeper pockets will follow you as you make these exciting lifestyle changes.
  3. SMARTER KIDS: The healthiest thing children (or you) can do is to eat what you grow. There’s nothing better than stepping outside and picking dinner directly from the vine. Haven’t you been wishing for a way to get the kids off of the couch and into the great outdoors. So throw those kids out in the south forty and tell them not to come inside until they have the harvest!  Well, not exactly but every subdivision yard on the planet should be covered in beautiful organic heirloom food. And at the same time you can naturally teach your children how to save money, exercise, grow and consume deliciously healthy food, for free!! Not a bad deal if you ask me. Studies also show that farm kids who regularly have their hands in soil with all the microorganisms that come with it, have much better health, and less medical bills. So technically there’s more savings than just growing veggies, and this is just the beginning of your new healthy savings. Save big money, feel better, the kids are happier, healthier and have much less attention deficit problems. Over 19% of children in America are diagnosed with attention deficit, only 0.4% are diagnosed with it in France. Same kids, same world, different food!! Are you starting to get the picture?
  4. HEALTHIER BODIES: The fact that you will be eating fabulously delicious heirloom fruits and veggies right from your yard will certainly guarantee better health for you and your family. There’s no comparison between food that comes from unknown foreign lands that’s picked four weeks too early, and the tasty and healthy food growing just outside your window! You will soon be eating food that’s not covered in herbicides and pesticides so the antioxidant levels are much higher, not to mention the flavors! Just eating food that is not processed with harmful chemicals will help improve everything from your hair to heart disease.

If you thought you could improve your health and mindset of the whole family by simply growing a few veggies, would you? I did and my results became ‘’off the charts’’ great! What do you have to lose? Overweight disease more than likely. Happy planting and get healthy, my friends.

 

         ~john~         

BLACK SEED OIL, NOT YOUR NEW SNAKE OIL

Nigella Sativa is not a common name that we hear every day but most of us have heard the word black seed, cumin seed or seen them in the store or cooked with them. They grow on a small flowering bush and will grow in most any soil. They originated and are most popular in northern Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, Middle East, India and parts of the Mediterranean. They have different names around the world such as black cumin, black caraway, black seed and many more. They have been used for cooking and herbal medicine for thousands of years, just not in our neighborhood. They are used in many delicious and healthy meals including seasoning on bread. But there’s much more to this little wonder than just cooking great food. 

 

When black seed oil is extracted from the seeds it becomes an extremely healthy organic anti-inflammatory substance. In my professional opinion I believe it is equivalent to CBD oil or better in specific ways, supposedly they both have disease killing properties. Black Seed also helps you sleep much better with its muscle relaxing and pain relieving capabilities. Some other exciting benefits of this super antioxidant is that it helps with everything from blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, aids, heart disease to hair loss and much more. I have personally witnessed it wiping out acne almost overnight, so it is extremely good for skin treatment. I have also enjoyed the great pain relieving benefits from black seed oil for 10 years, with great results! 

 

So you say, then just why haven’t we heard of this, if it’s so great?  Simple, it seems to cure things just like it has around the world for thousands of years. It’s been labeled as experimental, unproven and alternative in our world here at home. Thousands of years of use and my pain free body for ten years is proof enough for me. Do your homework and purchase a cold press organic product and get started to better health today my friends. I promise, you’ll love the results!

 

   ~John~  

 

The Price of Eggs

THE PRICE OF EGGS

 

It seems there is so much to learn about eggs. Just a simple egg, it seems confusing at times. For several decades we have been told by the so-called experts that eggs are good or bad for us. We were told eggs have harmful cholesterol that has the ability to harm, sicken, or even kill us! We were told to only eat the egg whites and not the yolk. We were told how many to eat. We were even told to ‘’only eat’’ the so-called egg mixtures that come in small cartons. Those cartons are loaded with dangerous inflammatory weight gaining, disease causing chemicals!! Are these the types of eggs they told us not to consume? No, just the healthy kind mother nature provides us! News reports are reporting avian chicken flu is rampant and that it will surely be the end of the poultry industry, this time. Anyone over 40 years old has heard that many times over several decades and fortunately we still enjoy chickens and the healthy nutrition they give us. Doom and gloom won’t end Mother Nature.

 

So with all the anti- egg campaigns we have endured, people seem to be eating more eggs than ever before, with good results. Humans have been consuming eggs from a variety of animals for thousands of years with great results. It seems apparent that the healthy dietary cholesterol ‘’did not’’ kill anyone! Just one egg produces approximately 90mg of healthy omega-3 fatty acids. These are excellent for brain and thyroid health, who doesn’t want that? A healthy egg has between 7-10 grams of high quality protein and is loaded with natural nutrients such as lutein which helps with age-related macular degeneration. Eggs have choline which helps with brain development and memory, being an especially great choice for pregnant women. Eggs also have a good dose of the daily vitamins and minerals most of us are lacking such as B-12, B-2 A, phosphorus, B-5 and folate. It seems these little wonders that mother nature provided for us are extremely healthy after all. Mother nature wouldn’t poison us, would she? According to my blood tests results, no!

 

The only problem with eggs is currently they have risen in price to a point that many people have cut them out of their weekly grocery budget. I wouldn’t recommend doing that and maybe it would be wise to just put back foods that are not healthy choices for your family. Let’s assume the current price of eggs has doubled to $6 per dozen. That equates to 50 cents per egg. Naturally the price seems extravagant because, after-all, they doubled in price. But not so fast. Remember, a healthy egg produces all of the great omega-3s and powerful nutrition with 7-10 grams of supreme protein, for only 50 cents. The next time you pay several dollars for highly inflammatory (poison) donuts and sugary breakfast drinks, you could have (2 eggs) 15-20 grams of extremely healthy protein, for $1. This amount of high quality protein in most foods would certainly cost much more. As much as the current higher price is a burden, it’s also a bargain. It is my recommendation that you find a local farmer for your free range eggs. You will certainly receive a great source of all natural nutrition that comes from chickens that eat only what mother nature provides them. Stay healthy my friends!

 

 ~John~