Spinach is Damn Good.
I like spinach. Spinach is a great source of Magnesium, and it is damn tasty.
The myth about spinach and its high iron content may have first been propagated by Dr. E. von Wolf in 1870, because a misplaced decimal point in his publication led to an iron-content figure that was ten times too high.
History is full of hilarious shit like that: learning really is fun. As long as you do it right. Gotta eat your spinach fresh, though -- even reheating it can make it poisonous, and spinach has been the vehicle for e. coli outbreaks in the past.
Soil and Health Library
A huge resource I just came across -- we'll be backing up all of this material shortly, but in the meantime:
Soil and Health Library
Remember Paul
Paul Laffoley, obviously...and his admonition about Ginko the miracle plant:
Native to China it tolerates all climates and soils. It was saved from extinction in the 19th century by certain Chinese Monasteries. The tree dates from the Mesozoic Era (144 million years ago) making it the oldest flowering plant alive at the time of the dinosaurs. Shoots of the tree can connect deciduous to conifer trees, fruits to vegetables, grasses to vines.
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From what I understand, ginseng also grows rampant in the wild, specifically in forest areas - I would think it would be pretty easy to cultivate.
My granddad did that for a while. It takes some time for the root to really form so it's demanding in that respect. Deer like to eat it, too, so in order to wildcraft it, you may need enclosures. And it's hard to say that a plant which was as voraciously harvested/poached as ginseng "grows rampant in the wild." The price was too good for too long and, at least in my neck of the woods, the people who still know where to find it stay pretty quiet about their little green investments. Before my granddad died, he took some berries and put them up in the woods by his house. They still come up every year, though with intermittent success, and my grandma still dutifully pushes any new berries back into the earth. That way, the seeds don't escape and she can tend the guarded plants more easily.
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