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Parmesan and Sunflower Crackers

Sunflower Seed Biscuits

This recipe can be used if you are doing seed cycling to balance your hormones. Or just if you need more zinc and selenium! Sesame and sunflower are both very powerful little seeds. Be sure to get organically grown seeds.

Kale Chips – Tangy Sunflower, Parmesan and Spicy Cashew

Kale Chips – Tangy Sunflower, Parmesan and Spicy Cashew

It took me a while to figure out the best temperature, amount of oil and dressing as well as the length of time to get the perfect crunch on these babies, but I seem to have basically gotten the hang of it now. As usual my recipes come out a bit differently each time I make them. The latest vers ...

City Street Garden – Reclaimed with Seed Bombs

City Street Garden – Reclaimed with Seed Bombs

This is a project I have been working on for a couple years now. After few failed guerrilla garden attempts at various places around the city I found a good spot for a garden. The first year I put in a couple beds, the second year I put in three more and used them as experimental plots to test out a ...

Sunflowers and Bacteria Clean up Radiation

Sunflowers and Bacteria Clean up Radiation

I read about sunflowers being able to clean up radiation a few months ago, but only now stumbled upon this project in Japan which is involving the whole country in growing and planting sunflowers near Fukushima to help remove radiation from the soil. What a beautiful cheerful flower to have growing ...

Oil Pulling Detox

Oil Pulling Detox

I first read of this unusual healing technique in Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles by Johanna Paungger and Thomas Poppe when I first moved to New Zealand. At that time for some reason I couldn't get my hands on cold-pressed sunflower or sesame oil and didn't get a chanc ...

Parmesan-Pumpkin Seed Crackers

Parmesan-Pumpkin Seed Crackers

This tasty snack can be made with any nut or seed or combination of. It makes a great crust as well. 1c curds (ground) 1c pumpkin seeds (soaked, toasted and ground) 1/2 c sunflower seeds (ST&G) 2T butter or other fat (coconut, tallow, goose) 1/2c parmesan Method: I don't have a food p ...

Pests in the Balcony Garden 09

Pests in the Balcony Garden 09

Previous We had a serious attack of spider mites. They started in the catnip and yarrow and somehow got to the choko and beans. They took the choko down in no time, fortunately it is a hardy plant and it has now grown back to where it was when the spider mites devoured it. This was my first re ...