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This is the Spira Farms newsletter. Were a group of people that have a stance on lawns.
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Today we are going to talk about:
- living as an anti-lawn person🌿🌱
living as an anti-lawn person🌿🌱
What can I say? I don’t like most grass. 🙄
Looking at what we do, we buy grass from somewhere, put it on property and water it to look nice. It doesn’t serve much practical purpose. Historically lawns were created by the wealthy to show off how they were so wealthy that they didn’t need to grow food. 🍅
Those guys were wrong, using that space for growing food way cooler. 😎
I didn’t make a weird anti-lawn statement to talk about lawns, I actually do want to talk about grass. A grass that has a lot of benefits, wheatgrass. 🌱
By the way wheatgrass, catgrass, petgrass is all the same grass. 🐈👇👇
Wheatgrass is amazing but you can’t eat it raw
Many animals like dogs and cats can, which created the clever marketing names of cat grass or pet grass. It’s actually great for our pets, but it’s also amazing for us too.
We get often asked if we grow wheatgrass because it has a lot of amazing properties.
- Rich in vitamins A,E,C
- Rich in anti-oxidants
- Has many essential amino acids (things our bodies need but cant produce thank you nature)
Wheatgrass is great, but that doesn’t mean you should grab a bundle of it and start munching on it. If you’ve done that, you’ve taken the whole ‘you’re eating greens what are you a cow?’ jokes too far. They might even be right. 🐄
Our stomachs cant digest raw wheatgrass like other animals (atleast we can eat chocolate sorry doggos 🐶). That doesn’t mean we can’t consume this awesome stuff, we just need to help our bodies out a little bit.
There are two ways to consume wheatgrass. You can either juice it or powder it .
Juicing is a great way to get the good stuff 🧃
Problem is that wheatgrass juice losses its nutrition FAST. I keep reading different studies and numbers, but the consensus is that the loss of nutrients due to oxidation is really fast. Somewhere in the 4-72 hour range the nutrients are lost. Which means we have to juice it basically when we need it. Which is a bit of a messy process.
What we have opted to do instead is to powder the wheatgrass. 🧂
Powdering is the act of taking live wheatgrass, dehydrating it at temperatures lower than 115 degrees (anything above kills nutrition), grinding it to a powder, and then storing it for the long haul for really easy use. We then add a spoonful to our smoothies. The downside of this method is that you only get 90% of the nutrition out of it. Given how easy it is to store, we think its totally worth it.
Today, we are growing live wheatgrass. We sell it live specifically because of the nutrition problem (or maybe for the fur babies). Were working on bringing a raw wheatgrass powder into the fold soon to make it easier to use the stuff.
Remember, grassy lawns are bad ✌️