LIVING foods and Gardening...Cooperating with Devas

[Monica]

I just got this book...Here's a video with the highlights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSEzIH8eU7o

[Monica]

See also a list of books dealing with this topic:

Life on Planet Earth > In regards to eating meat

And, here are books on raw foods:

These are the books I have recently purchased, based on the rave reviews! I read the reviews of every raw vegan book on amazon.com I could find! However I have not actually tested out all these books, but am still just getting started myself. I can tell you that I'm very disappointed in Jennifer Cornbleet's book Raw Food Made Easy - it looks really good at first glance but the seasonings aren't very good. It may have a few good things in it but overall it has been a disappointment.

Avoid!! Raw in 10 Minutes by Bryan Au - Not recommended, unless you like some veggies just tossed together and called a pizza

Avoid!! The UNcook Book - Baker - this was all I had 25+ years ago. Can you see why I failed at raw foods? heh Soak and mash up some nuts, season to taste with Bragg's - bleh!

Also books by Ann Wigmore were instrumental in the raw vegan movement, but as recipe books, bleh bleh. Same with Viktoras Kulvinskas, though his Survival into the 21st Century is a hardcore, cult classic.

LOVE/HATE: Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook - First of all it is NOT raw nor is it even vegetarian! Has more meat than veggies. And many dehydrating instructions call for blanching first - ??? what's up with that?? However it does have some useful info. So I still haven't decided if I wasted my $$ or not. I'm pretty sure I did.

Also of note: 80/10/10 Diet by Dr. Douglas N. Graham is VERY hardcore purist! Nothing gourmet here! NOT recommended, although many athletes swear by it, so you might want to check it out sometime for that reason. I got it and may do it for quick weight loss - which you of course don't need! Frederick Pataneaude follows this type of diet, if you are familiar with him.

You will probably want to check out the reviews yourself.

Also, I put a * by those that have lots of color pictures - definitely a plus!

Enjoy!

The really really awesome raw vegan books (or so they say)

12 Steps to Raw Foods - Victoria Boutenko (NOT a recipe book) I've read it and yes it's awesome! A bit dogmatic and rigid in some ways, but still inspiring.

Living Raw Food - Sarma Melngailis *

Everyday Raw - Matthew Kenney *

Ani's Raw Food Essentials - Ani Phyo (she has a new one on Asian cuisine coming out in May) some B&W pix only. I really like her style and the recipes look good, though I just got the book so haven't tried any yet. She really blew my mind with her raw vegan dog story. She has other books too but this one is supposedly the best. I may check out her others sometime.

Living in the Raw - Rose Lee Calabro

Living Cuisine - Renee Loux Underkoffler

The Art of Raw Living - Doreen Virtue/Jenny Ross

The World Goes Raw Cookbook - Lisa Mann

The Raw Gourmet - Nomi Shannon

Celebrating our Raw Nature - Dorit

The Complete Book of Raw Food - Lori Baird, editor (not sure yet how good this is, had mixed reviews, but looks like it does have some good tips)

Kristen Suzanne's Easy Raw Vegan Dehydrating (small book but invaluable!) She makes $$ by publishing a series of tiny raw vegan books, which could have all been combined into 1 book, really. I haven't been able to bring myself to buy any of her others, but I'm glad I got this one.

Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine - Gabriel Cousens MD
(Note: His book Conscious Eating isn't raw but is transitional veg.)

Also of interest (though not totally raw): The Nut Gourmet - Zel Allen

The Dehydrator Cookbook - Joanna White (not totally veg but mostly)

And, if you are interested in edible weeds, here are THE BEST:

The Forager's Harvest - Samuel Thayer (also has a dvd by the same name)

Nature's Garden - Samuel Thayer

Edible Wild Plants - John Kallas, PhD

I have lots of others on wild edibles but most don't have good pix for proper ID'ing. And some are even inaccurate. Thayer and Kallas know their s$%#! and have awesome pix - beautiful books!

Sprouting

Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook - Steve Meyerowitz

Sprouts the Miracle Food - Steve Meyerowitz

Sprout Garden - Mark Braunstein

[Eddie]

Gardening is unusually challenging here this spring; maybe the Devas are going haywire. We had 25 inches of rain between March 1st and the end of April; and it has rained almost every day so far in May, although not as heavily as in April. Despite this, I have managed to get about 3/4 of my Spring planting done, although I am still way behind. It's also been unseasonably cold, so my corn, beans and okra aren't germinating as well as I'd like.

I was planting tomatoes Monday morning, and found another obstacle. I mulch my garden heavily. I had just brushed aside some leaves, and was just about to plunge my trowel into the ground, when I noticed something moving right where I wanted to plant. I picked it up, and it was a baby rabbit, about 3 or 4 days old; its eyes weren't open yet. I then noticed 3 or 4 more in the same hole, that had been underneath the first one. So I put him back and recovered the nest with leaves.

I hope Mama rabbit moves them out of there soon; I need that space for a tomato plant.

[C-JEAN]

Hi Monica.

I just got this. . .

I will do some research on Devas.

Do you also know about Veda ???
. . .the VERY old knowledge ?

Blue skies.

[Monica]

Gardening is unusually challenging here this spring; maybe the Devas are going haywire. We had 25 inches of rain between March 1st and the end of April; and it has rained almost every day so far in May, although not as heavily as in April. Despite this, I have managed to get about 3/4 of my Spring planting done, although I am still way behind. It's also been unseasonably cold, so my corn, beans and okra aren't germinating as well as I'd like.

Please send some rain to Texas!

I was planting tomatoes Monday morning, and found another obstacle. I mulch my garden heavily. I had just brushed aside some leaves, and was just about to plunge my trowel into the ground, when I noticed something moving right where I wanted to plant. I picked it up, and it was a baby rabbit, about 3 or 4 days old; its eyes weren't open yet. I then noticed 3 or 4 more in the same hole, that had been underneath the first one. So I put him back and recovered the nest with leaves.

I hope Mama rabbit moves them out of there soon; I need that space for a tomato plant.

Awww....!

[Eddie]

Please send some rain to Texas!

I wish I could. We are at 34 inches since January 1st; normal is 44 inches for a whole year. If it keeps up like this the crops will rot in the ground.

I should be raising ducks or rice instead of vegetables

[Monica]

I wish I could. We are at 34 inches since January 1st; normal is 44 inches for a whole year. If it keeps up like this the crops will rot in the ground.

I should be raising ducks or rice instead of vegetables

The water of the Earth is changing its balance. I wonder what the metaphysical significance of that is.

[Eddie]

The water of the Earth is changing its balance. I wonder what the metaphysical significance of that is.

I have pondered this myself for some time. I was, for several years, a field respondent for the Drought Monitor ( Drought Monitor ). I have (informally) tracked patterns of rainfall deficit and surplus across the country for about 5 years now, using the excellent graphics at sites such as these:

Observed Precipitation

Daily Soil Moisture Anomaly (Click on the "daily" link in the "anomaly" column)

U.S. Current Streamflow

And I see that the areas of drought and excess migrate across the country in waves, that have periods of months or a couple of years. They are not random at all. That suggests that the rainfall anomalies are linked to some sort of field--perhaps the Earth's magnetic field, or some energetic instreaming that we have not yet properly defined. I'm sure that there is a metaphysical explanation waiting to be revealed.

[Lorna]

i highly recommend this website as a source of information about sprouting

http://www.sproutpeople.com/indexfr.htm

i have a couple of sprouting books but never look at them - this website always answers any questions i have, haven't bought from them though as they're based in the us i think so don't know what they're like as a retailer

[Monica]

i have a couple of sprouting books but never look at them - this website always answers any questions i have, haven't bought from them though as they're based in the us i think so don't know what they're like as a retailer

Sproutpeople definitely has the best selection of gourmet sprout mixes, as well as incredibly in-depth info!

I have bought from them several times and, unfortunately, I was not happy with their service. They never answer the phone but will communicate via email only. This is fine with routine orders, but I like being able to reach a human when there's a problem.

And, they didn't seem at all interested in the satisfaction of their customers. I spent several hundred dollars on an assortment of sprouting seeds and other items, over just a couple of months, and a few of the bags of seeds became infested with bugs. I had stored them according to directions, ie. no refrigeration required, but storing in the frig would just give a longer shelf life. I knew we'd use them up within 6 months or so, so I didn't bother to refrigerate.

I sent them pictures of the bugs and they said it was because the seeds had gotten too hot. Well, I do live in Texas, but our house is air conditioned, so I don't see how they got too hot. But the point is that I stored them according to directions.

I didn't even ask for a complete refund, but would have appreciated some gesture. I thought it would be fair if they at least shared in the responsibility, since I was new at this and couldn't be expected to know about storing seeds. So I suggested that they improve their already-excellent directions, to include special directions for those in warmer climates.

I felt that good customer service would have been to replace the bags of seeds. I lost several bags, totaling about $40, but would have been happy if they had just offered me a credit of $20 or so, but when I asked, they basically said, too bad.

I most definitely would have shopped elsewhere after that, but there is no elsewhere. I don't know of any other company that offers such an incredible selection! So I continue to order from them, but I won't give them rave reviews. I am disappointed that they were so uninterested in customer feedback. It seemed to me that their business must be so good, since they have no competitors really, that they knew I'd be back despite my dissatisfaction. And, they were right.

[Lorna]

crikey monica, that's dreadful customer service
as a point of principle i wouldn't have used them again
i've used a few suppliers in the uk - surely there should be others in the US?
my favourites are:
http://www.livingfood.co.uk/
http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/

living food had badly packaged one of their alfalfa deliveries to me which meant that some of the seed had spilled into the box - i dropped them an email just to let them know that it might be an idea to change their packaging and they sent me a big pack that more than replaced what had been spilled

what do you sprout monica? my favourites are fenugreek, alfalfa and mung beans - quite like sprouted lentils too. i get such an energy boost from a sprout laden salad. i much prefer to sprout separetley and then mix the sprouts as needed though

i've tried some of the brassica - broccoli and raddish - but haven't been very successful with them

[Richard]

I found this thread pretty late. As an alternative, you might try sprout powders. I work in the supplments industry and we use raw materials from this company. Everything we get from them is top quality.

But they also have a consumer line of products. I've never used this type of product, but I know their production, customer service abd sales people quite well. Its a great company.

http://www.synergyproduction.com/pages/s...wders.html

Oops...well..this link is for the bulk raw materials section. It looks like they have phased out the consumer quantity line for these sprout powders.

Unless you need 20 kg

This the founder of the company...pretty cool story..have never talked to him though. He's semi retired nowadays.

http://www.thesynergycompany.com/mm_article1.html#top


Richard

[Ruth]

Richard, I'm glad you found this thread however late, because I might not have found it at all had you not posted.

I have been wondering if anyone here has been able to communicate with the pests/weeds that we don't want to grow in our gardens and yards. I spent so much time pulling a particular weed that I honestly felt it was communicating with me - laughing at me for trying to get rid of it. Even though I told it all the while that I would carry the whole lot of them in my loader bucket out to the ditch bank and dump there where they cuold happily have an entire weed colony.

I even promised to continue to feed them, just as I did my garden. I don't know the proper name for them, but when you find the center and look down, it looks like a star as it spreads it's little arms out to spread through your garden/yard. I must confess that they have significantly slowed down in the garden, but the yard is full of them. And yes, I have kept my promise to feed them with compost tea out on the ditch bank.

Have tried the same technique with some of the pests - telling them to go elsewhere or I'd be forced to add things to the garden to either kill them (all organic, of course) or force them to move on.

[Eddie]

We had a banner year for apples this year; lots of them, and they are very sweet.

[Ruth]

Eddie - my hubby and I have been talking about planting a few apple trees. We are further North, in NW Indiana. I might be picking your brain soon about how to care for apple trees and get the best harvest from them. What kind of apples do you grow?

[Eddie]

Eddie - my hubby and I have been talking about planting a few apple trees. We are further North, in NW Indiana. I might be picking your brain soon about how to care for apple trees and get the best harvest from them. What kind of apples do you grow?

I have Golden Delicious, Enterprise, and William's Pride. Those are all excellent choices for the home grower.

Apples require a lot of spraying (more so than any other fruit with which I am familiar). You have to spray the right things at the right time (and this is often inconvenient), so make sure you are familiar with the spray schedule for your area before committing to plant. Check with the local Purdue University extension specialist.

[Ruth]

Thanks Eddie!

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In 1983 after going to a school in the countryside learning selfsustainable ecological lifestyle "Think globally, act locally" i read "The Gardens of Findhorn" where they grew enourmous cabbage on a parkinglot simply by communicating with devas...well my lifepath has been blocked in many ways, i never even tried it out...and exactly WHAT is meant by communicating with "devas"? Must be tapping into the "Source Field" that David Wilcock has investigated in his recent book The Source Field Investigations...

I think if those books had a more scientific approach more pple would be interested. I do believe one can communicate with animals both living and dead, but a snail? There's better ways to describe it i think.

[Odinn]

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That's the beginning of a life lived in deeply linked digital love!