Food is being delivered from farther and farther away as the global distribution system delivers tomatoes from Holland and cantaloupe from Chile. Agricultural chemicals banned in North America are nevertheless showing up on our dinner plates. Rising oil prices are perpetually raising the price of our long-distance, imported diet.

Steve Meyerowitz, the “Sproutman®” is a health crusader whose passion is to return to the concept, practiced over a hundred years ago, where most families provided their own food. The only transportation involved in this approach is the one from the garden to the dinner table. Says Meyerowitz, “You don’t need a peer reviewed study to know that this is the healthiest food in the world.” But the problem is: “We live in the Northeast where home gardening is not an option most of the year or we reside in apartments several stories above the city pavement.” Meyerowitz‘ solution: “Kitchen Gardening.” — A no-soil approach using baby versions of many common vegetables, grains, and beans. He calls these “The World’s Healthiest Vegetables” because as baby plants, they concentrate their nutrition many times over the mature version of the same vegetable.

Sproutman will demonstrate how you can grow your own victory garden of fresh organic foods and become less dependent on the commercial food network. It’s easy. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. Kids love it. You can literally watch your food grow. His motto is “One week from seed to salad®.” Find out how easy it is to grow these amazing living foods and how they can add energy to your days, and years to your life.

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Dear Sproutman,  I am using your high quality wheatgrass seeds, why am I getting mold?  Please see my picture below.

Mold Starting on Wheatgrass

Dear Cynthia,  I can see from the photo that the Las Vegas growing unit is not providing sufficient air for the roots. Too much moisture is being trapped there. With moisture and insufficient air circulation, you do get mold even with the best sprout seed. Those wheatgrass seeds had a very low spore count. But under the right conditions and with enough time, their spores will breed. Honestly, I wish you were using my Wheatgrass Grower because I specifically designed it for growing hydroponic wheatgrass and it took some revisions to get it just right. And the feedback from now thousands of units sold is proof of a good design. The seed is only one factor in gardening.

I will be in Las Vegas speaking at the International Sprout Growers Association on Oct 18-20. If I can grab a few minutes (in theory??), and if you can provide transportation, I would be happy to look closely at your unit and recommend how you could modify it to be more adaptable for hydroponic wheatgrass. Do you have my sprout bags? Because that is the definitive test. If the spore count is high, mold will show in the bag on the fourth day. Test 8 tablespoons of seeds in the sprout bag. It is always possible if the seeds were improperly stored that the spore count increased during storage. That would be the case if they were temporarily exposed to moisture at some point during their storage. That’s a possibility. In either case, the sprout bag test will tell us if the seeds have gotten moldy. If the sprout bag growth is mold-free, then I’m sticking with my first take on the insufficient air for the roots during the early growth period of is the problem.

I would also like to recommend taking my online class How to Grow and Take Wheatgress.  I have classes scheduled for September, October, November and December.  For more on the online class click here.

On May 11, 2011, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the first-ever genetically engineered (GE), drought tolerant corn, MON 87460.  APHIS is currently soliciting comments on this unprecedented GE crop, due August 12, 2011.  The Center for Food Safety has reviewed the Draft EA, and, our analysis shows that has USDA not adequately analyzed or accounted for the various environmental and socio-economic impacts of this novel crop, and Monsanto has failed to make any significant progress on drought resistance through genetic engineering.

As with previous GE crop approvals, USDA’s proposal fails to comply with national environmental law, making APHIS’s approval illegal.

USDA’s proposal: 

• Fails to adequately consider and protect organic consumers
• Fails to recognize farmers and consumers have the right to choose non-GE
• Fails to analyze the benefits of drought-tolerant organic corn as an alternative to MON87460
• Fails to use sound science and relies excessively on Monsanto data
• Fails to assess the environmental impacts of converting conservation land to MON87460 production

Tell USDA to obey the law! Further analysis and environmental protections are necessary before any approval should be considered.

Online Class: How to Grow Wheatgrass

Plus Other Ways of Getting and Taking Wheatgrass

Thursday, July 14, 2011 – 8pm EST

Regularly $35, but pay only $25 with this coupon WG2011*

*Coupon expires Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 11:59PM EST.

Included in each session:

• Soil and non soil growing techniques
• Key Factors for Avoiding and Minimizing mold
• Should you Use of Hydrogen peroxide? Grapefruit Seed Extract?
• Special emphasis on the basic Tray Growing Method using Sproutman’s Wheatgrass Grower for the example
• Alternatives to Growing your own Wheatgrass
• Frozen wheatgrass vs. Fresh wheatgrass – Comparisons
• Indoor Grown vs. Outdoor Grown – What’s difference
• Wheatgrass History
• Wheatgrass Nutrition
• Class documents provided at the end

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