You may ask why is it important to grow your own food?
First and most importantly it is your Food Security. Not nice to be hungry 24/7.
Second is that the food you grow yourself; if grown naturally without man made chemicals, will be healthier compared that which is grown with chemical fertilisers and sprays.
Thirdly it will have great flavour unlike the bland produce that you buy from commercial growers/supermarkets.
Naturally grown produce; when natural minerals are used, such as Wallys Ocean Solids, Wallys Unlocking your soil rock dust and Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL)… then the plants take up all these wonderful minerals and elements and the result is great flavour and so very tasty.
There is a simple formula ‘Great Flavour/taste = Great nutitional value/health’
My Friend Jack sent me an email this week which promted me to write this current column.
Here is what Jack wrote…
This morning I was waiting to have a haircut here in Tauranga, New Zealand.
The customer in front of me getting his haircut was the owner of a big transport company in the area and was talking to the barber. This is how the conversation went:
“Barber; How are things with you young man?
Answer; Not bad, but I have a lot of drivers off with Omicron at present which is not the best.
However, my biggest concern at present is that AdBlue, an essential additive now used in most modern diesel trucks and cars worldwide, is rapidly running out AND MAY CLOSE DOWN THE ENTIRE GLOBAL DIESEL TRUCK FREIGHT INDUSTRY within a month or two creating global chaos in supply chains.
Barber; Awe, that sounds a bit extreme doesn’t it? Are you pulling my leg?
Answer; No I am deadly serious.
Barber; Well why is it getting in short supply?
Answer; AdBlue is manufactured from Synthesized Urea and is used also for fertilizer and manufacturing conventional explosives.
RUSSIA is by far the biggest manufacturer and exporter in the world with China not far behind.
As a result of the Ukraine crisis, and the sanctions against Russia, Russia in turn, in collusion with China, is turning off the global supply lines.
It actually started last year. Here in NZ and Australia, unless this supply shortage is urgently rectified.
In my own case within a month I will have to park up all my trucks and stand down all my drivers!
That is how serious it may be.”
So everyone. I have no idea if this situation will be resolved quickly or not.
However, in a very short space of time it potentially could turn very nasty!
After all, every can of baked beans doesn’t walk into the supermarket on its own – it comes in by diesel trucks! Do I have to say any more?
Jack
Ok if there are little to no trucks to move stuff the empty Super Market shelves will be more apparent than currently also mail order stuff will not only have long delays as currently with drivers isolating but maybe reduce to a trickle?
So you should stock up now with essential items as well as plant up your gardens with vegetables as the day light hours are getting shorter and growth is slowing.
There is one fresh food you can do without a garden or day light hours to worry about and that is healthy seed sprouts.
Grow your own, fresh, nutritious, tasty sprouts. Mr Fothergills Kitchen Seed Sprouter makes it simple and affordable.
You will find these multi-compartment sprouters at Egmont Seeds in their mail order on line.
https://www.egmontseeds.co.nz/accessories-c-27/seed-sprouter-mr-fothergills
From their web site they have:
Sprouts are often referred to as Natures Super Foods, and rightly so, they are packed with powerful vitamins and minerals.
A study that involved scientific analysis of the vitamin and phytochemical content of 25 types of micro-greens, found that there were higher concentrations of vitamins and carotenoids (precursors to vitamin A) than the full-grown versions of the plants!
Now you can use the sprouter and make the seeds even more nitrous by adding a very small amount of MBL and Wallys Ocean Solids dissolved in the water you sprout the seeds in.
If possible avoid using chlorinated tap water for sprouting as you dont need the sprouts to take up the chlorine poison.
To overcome this problem place a bucket of chlorinated tap water outside in a sunny spot.
Take a cup of this water lift up and pour back into the bucket when the sun is shining.
This quickly removes the chlorine from the water and after a couple of days it should be free of the poison.
Also a couple of buckets outside to collect rainwater is also great value.
You change the water in the sprouter as to the instructions and ideally the sprouter should be on a window sill where it gets some natural light to green up the sprouts as they germinate.
Kings Seeds NZ is another good source of seeds to sprout with most of them being organic see
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Then you can always pick up seeds from places like Bin Inn such as mung beans etc.
Once you obtain a collection of seeds to sprout you then need to store them inside their packets, open or unopened and placed inside a glass jar with a lid and put inside your fridge.
That will keep them fresh for years and ready for you when you need or want to sprout.
With both Russia, Ukraine and China not supplying the West with fertilisers means that a lot of commercial growers are going to come unstuck and what vegetables that are available will be too expensive for many people.
Happy Growing…….
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