Just some shots from this morning's juice cycle -- plants from the earth, extract the minerals by juicing, then return the pulp back to the earth to nurture the soil and its residents. I read once where the purpose of plants is to be a conveyance vehicle (in the form of juices) for minerals that are in the soil -- minerals that are essential to human life. I like that picture of a God-given cycle of life. It fits perfectly with Adam's and Eve's original commission to be tenders of the Garden.
Here's what I started with today:
It yielded well over a quart of juice:
About 40 oz. after straining:
Four eight-ounce Ball jars full to drink later, almost eight ounces to drink immediately:
Then dig a hole in the flower beds and return the leftover pulp as a meal for the worms and bio-life in the soil. Cover with dirt and it will disappear within 3-4 days. (Note the volunteer tomato plant coming up on the left of the picture.)
Got a peppermint plant the other day to be able to crush some leaves into the quart jars of (decaf) sun tea I put out each morning. I put it in its own planter to keep it from spreading which it will do if given free rein in a garden:
Here's what I started with today:
It yielded well over a quart of juice:
About 40 oz. after straining:
Four eight-ounce Ball jars full to drink later, almost eight ounces to drink immediately:
Then dig a hole in the flower beds and return the leftover pulp as a meal for the worms and bio-life in the soil. Cover with dirt and it will disappear within 3-4 days. (Note the volunteer tomato plant coming up on the left of the picture.)
Got a peppermint plant the other day to be able to crush some leaves into the quart jars of (decaf) sun tea I put out each morning. I put it in its own planter to keep it from spreading which it will do if given free rein in a garden:
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