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I am wary about juicing vegetables, especially modern vegetables.  They have been hybridized to grow too fast, and too ‘sweet’ and ‘juicy’.  It is like broiler chickens – they are hybridized to grow fast and to develop large breasts. Our tests have shown a change in the nutrients content of the broiler meat due to changes in dietary requirements to meet its fast growing nutritional needs. For example, saturated fats and omega 6 content sky-rockets, making it an ‘unbalanced’ meat, whether organic or not. The same must apply to modern hybridized vegetables and fruits.  They require...

Wild gingers have lovely flowers seldom seen. Some of the wild gingers planted at our farm are flowering (click on pics for enlarged image). Lovely flower of the temu kunci or fingerroot ( boesenbergia rotunda ) The lempoyang ( zingziber zerumbet ).  The flower is filled with water and have saved many a life in the jungles. Locals use the liquid inside as a shampoo for...