Winter is the sprouts' finest hour. However, as recognized super-foods, their best time is all year round. This is particularly so in the winter, when you crave hot food rather than a huge green salad.Sprouts have a huge advantage. They can give us the vast abundance of health that lies within them without needing to make a salad. You can also put them in a sandwich, add them to a quiche, mix them into a soup or just place a handful on a plate and eat them as is.
Organic sprouts are tiny plants, baby vegetables that always bring a smile to my face. Sprouts, in fact, are one of the first crops with which I took my first steps in the world of organic agriculture.
In the beginning ofmy business I had to learn how to grow sprouts. I made dozens, if not hundreds, of attempts to grow sprouts successfully. I attempted to sprout every seed that I could find and that was willing to germinate: sunflower and sesame seeds, spelt and flax. My house, and the entrance to it, were covered with containers, cloth bags, strainers and sieves. For each type of seed,I tried to find the appropriate amount of soaking, rate of irrigation and rinsing, the amount of light, all in order to find the treatment which will produce sprouts that are tasty and fresh and not bitter.There were seeds that I stopped sprouting because they were not tasty, that required too much work or that took too long to get to an edible state. At the end of this very long experiment, according to all that I have learned I have selected eight types of sprouts that I now grow continuously and that you can find in the store.
The eight types are as follows: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 list them here.
Each has its own unique flavor and texture. But all of them are very good for you.
There is much resemblance between growing seeds and raising babies. The beginning is always intense and exciting. When there is a new baby at home, the world is turned upside down until stability is restored. The daily order changes, the whole world revolves around the infant: we have to feed, dress, change, and hold the baby on demand, gently, according to what is most suitable for this particular baby. If the caretakers are wrong in their treatment, the baby will immediately raise his voice and demand a correction. This is also what happens with sprouts, only quieter… They too require precision and full attention. They cannot be forgotten for a moment, otherwise the soft roots will not last. They will either rot or dry out.
Also the changes that take place in both baby plants and baby humans is similar. The changes are very rapid and significant at this initial and delicate stage. A human baby changes infront of the eyes of those who care for it. It turns from a helpless infant into a small person. He (or she) begins to move his limbs, to understand his surroundings, to reach out, to focus a glance, to show a smile at the edge of his mouth, to make small sounds of communication. The sprouts are also like that. From a seed that is tiny, round, smooth and still it becomes a powerful plant that bursts through the substrate and aspires upward towards the sunlight. Tremendous potential is stored within both the baby human and the sprouts, which actually contain the infrastructure on which the mature plant will develop: the sprouts contain dozens, hundreds, and thousands more nutrients, vitamins and minerals than the mature plant!
Sprouts contain all of the food groups and have a high nutritional value. All of the nutrition found in sprouts is readily available to be used by the body. Moreover, they also have enzymes that ease their processing and absorption by the body. Accordingly, it is very easy for our body to consume and use the available energy and quality protein in them.
Sprouts are one of the best examples of "may your food be your medicine".
To health!
Yours,
Maggie and the garden team
Organic vegetable baskets:
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Spinach
Lettuce
Pepper
Spinach
Avocado
Potatoes
Beet
Parsley
Mizuna
Large organic vegetable baskets:
Celery
Sweet potato
Fennel
Organic fruit baskets:
Oranges
Clementine
Pears
Red grapefruit
Large Organic fruit baskets:
Sweetie
Bananas
You can choose off course to mix and match your own order in our website.
