Celeste Longacre has posted an exciting new video showing us how to make probiotic Fruit Kvass! Probiotics is a big buzz word these days, but buying them at the pharmacy is prohibitively expensive. Watch this video to learn how to put together a fruit kvass (full of probiotics) in under three minutes and for pennies!
Listen to Celeste as she talks to host Patricia Raskin on Voice America’s The Patricia Raskin Show. Patricia interviews Celeste Longacre, author of Celeste Garden Delights. Celeste has been living sustainably for 30 years. She explains the benefits of a garden, eating locally, what to do if space does not permit a garden and so…
Purslane is a common garden weed that is probably the most nutritious item in your garden. It originally came from India and escaped into backyards everywhere. It has fourteen times the Omega-3 fatty acids of spinach as well as six times the vitamin E. Its betacarotene levels are seven times higher than carrots.
Mache is an extremely nutritious green that can be added to salads during the winter months. Here, in the northeastern U.S. where it is cold (and frozen), mache can be grown in a sunny window inside. This vegetable actually likes the cold—it won’t germinate until temperatures stay consistently below 70 degrees F. So it is…
