Children of the Cabbage

I have been sprouting now for a while.  It all started when I tried to add more fresh produce to my diet, and found it to be virtually impossible to do.  

Now I live in a tiny little farm, it seems.  Farm?! you ask.  It doesn't look like a farm.  Hardly even a yard.  Well, I bet my little farm could sustain life.  In a certain amount of misery.  Yes, I began sprouting seeds, mostly broccoli, mung, and alfalfa, like everyone else.   Besides the convenience of lots of fresh produce without a lot of gardening, it's very inexpensive.  

When I saw how well this solved the fresh produce problem, and how much it did for my health, I decided to try harder to grow wheatgrass.  

Not so fast.  So what if you grow it?  Then you must juice it!

Have you ever tried to juice sprouts?  I have.  Put them in the Jack Lalane juicer, and watch as they whirl, going directly to the juicer's waste bin without juicing them.  And grass isn't any better.  

Just eat the grass straight? you say.  Well, we aren't designed to break down cellulose, so our system doesn't do well on grass.  

But if you can juice the grass, some say it's practically miraculous.  

Well, we'll see.  I bought a hand crank juicer, and a tray and soil and seed.  I read the instructions.  

It seems the wheatgrass can be finicky.  It prefers 65 degrees.  An exact amount of water, no more, no less.  Exact amount of sunshine.  Best to grow it outside....

Yes, so say the deer.  In trying to solve this myriad of new problems, a whole lot of new ways of spending money are brought up.  Sunshine problems?  Get a growing light.  Space problems?  Buy a special cart.  Special soil, fertilizers, composts.  Expensive juicers.  Why not just buy the wheatgrass their own house and staff of employees?  

You may say, "Oh, I know!  Buy powdered wheatgrass!"  Then new questions arise.  Debate upon debate.  This is not actually wheatgrass juice!  This is powdered dried wheatgrass.  It may be bursting with nutrients, but is it digestible?  Well, no one seems to know.  

I overheard someone say they had read a study that tested subjects who drank wheatgrass juice made from wheatgrass sprouted on soil and compared them with other subjects who drank wheatgrass juice grown from hydroponic wheatgrass, wheatgrass that has been grown on water alone,  showing both groups' blood tests having identical improvements.  

So finally I got out my original tray method of sprouting, and decided to grow my first crop on that, just using water.  Does it work?  I don't know, yet.  We'll see. 

There are two factoids I find interesting, but probably no one else does.  One is that instead of juicing the wheatgrass, some people put it in the blender, which breaks it up enough for human consumption.  The other is that in the event of famine, one could survive by juicing the grass that grows out in fields.  

The Tree of Life

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever:  Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.   Genesis 3:22-24

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died.  Genesis 5:27

The Tree of Life.  It is said that if man ate of the fruit of the Tree of Life he would live forever.  What could have been in that fruit?  Also, even without this fruit, we read that Methuselah lived to be 969.  By the way, this timeline of Methuselah's death would coincide with the year of the biblical Flood.  So I speculate that Methuselah died in the Flood.

Have you ever wondered about what causes aging and death?  What was in the fruit of the Tree of Life that would make man live forever?  How it could be that people that lived before the Flood lived to be close to 1000 years old?

What if the Tree of Life were found?