Country Juicing

today i was thinking about how wonderful a juicer is to our health and well being. the ability to press the nutrients out of large sums of fruits and vegetables at one time into a small amount of concentrated liquid is amazing. no more eating massive sums of greens! before i juiced parsley, i would eat about a third to half of a bunch or bundle of it before i could take no more for the day. all the chewing tired my jaw. all the fiber made me full. now i press two bunches (two units as sold) of parsley into half a glass of juice, about four onces. works for me!

if i owned my own juicer, i would have to go to the store several times a week to stock up. but what if i owned a juicer back east in the country? there are so many plants that grow all over the place that can be juiced! out in east otto where taras mother lives, there are fields containing a huge variety of plants. fields of goldenrod who’s flowers might be similar to brocoli. burdock growing as a weed on the side of dirt roads! i cant tell you the number of burdocks i pulled out and let die as a child. burdock is incredibly healthy! natives once made tea from it’s root. it’s stalks are sold in the market i frequent. so are danilion leaves — another common “weed.”

everyday i could wander out of the house, pick a bushel of “weeds,” let them soak briefly to remove the bugs (i wouldn’t wanna juicethose!), and juice the plants with some bananas or carrots. now that i tell ya, would be a wonderful addition to a country lifestyle.

Wild man Steve Brill lives in New York and eats weeds!

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