Nutrient Dense High Brix Food

[Guest guest]

Great post from the another list on nutrient dense food in the inner city!

What is interesting in light of our conversations about fat loss and

caloric restriction is the comment in the post about how a lady ate

less food because she filled up faster on high brix food.

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You might tell him to check out Will 's operation in Milwaukee,

Growing Power (www.growingpower.org). He's greening up

vacant urban plots in downtown inner city Milwaukee and trains people who

want to do it in other cities. He has a greenhouse there that produces

lettuce, spinach, et al. all year round.

He uses compost piles to feed worms, worm castings to feed plants, and

rock powders to mix in with the worm castings.

He has fish tanks of tilapia in there too. He grows hanging plants

hydroponically with the worm casting runoff and uses those plants to feed

the fish. It's all very ingenious.

I woman I know spent a week there and brought her refractometer along but

not her garlic press. Surely, they would have one, but they didn't! She

tried but couldn't squeeze juice out of anything with utensils. Her

tastebuds, however, told her that this was the best-tasting food she'd

ever eaten -- and in February! They gave her the run of the greenhouse to

graze as she pleased while she was there, and she told me she found

herself satisfied to eat very little because she just wasn't that hungry,

the food was so rich. All that tells me he has a high brix operation

going there.

She told me that the composting operation keeps the greenhouses warm so

that nothing more than lightbulbs are needed for heat in the winter.

is a retired NBA player whose mission is empowering those in the

inner cities with the means to grow their own nutritious food. They

collect food scraps from the local restaurants and food markets for the

composting operation.

Until my friend visited, they didn't know anything about brix, but they

sure knew how to grow plants! The main secret seems to be those fortified

worm castings. They plant everything into that and use it for compost

tea. He considers worms to be his main crop. They make everything go.

I urge anyone living near there to check it out for us and report back

what you find. Very friendly people on a mission of goodwill.

[Guest guest]

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> You might tell him to check out Will 's operation in Milwaukee,

> Growing Power (www.growingpower.org). He's greening up

> vacant urban plots in downtown inner city Milwaukee and trains...

Wow, sounds great! I will have to check it out sometime because I live

about 90 minutes from Milwaukee. I would love to see the operation and

experience what high-brix produce tastes like.

Tom