Guest guest Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 At Thu, 6 Apr 2006 it looks like Leah Morrison composed: > Bill, > > Last night I spent alot of time reading the links from your website.... > (Its awesome by the way.) > Some one else might have already asked these questions... > Have you spent time at either of the two centers? (Hippocrates or the other one?) Leah, No I have not been to either. I have attended three of Brian Clement's seminars here in San Francisco over the last three years and since being an advocate of wheatgrass, I felt comfortable with Hippocrates use of it. Brian Clement used to work with Ann Wigmore at the original Boston Hippocrates Center prior to her passing and it moving to Puerto Rico. In my observation(s) the raw food beliefs were basically divided into two groups, roughly speaking. I only speak for myself and found the split to be (in my own words here) (A) The green side. (B) The fruit side. Hippocrates was from (A) The green side, for Brian Clement would state matter of factly that the sugars in fruit were " feeders " for the cancer they battled with clients at Hippocrates. Fresh fruit, as he stated in his early seminars were not the primary source of nutrition, greens were. Others in the raw world thrive on alot of fresh fruit, I guess the term " Fruitarians " came from their practice. I personally do better with more greens, and less fruit. > > From the reading, I see the health benefits of wheat grass. > I asked around here at the health food store if they had any > clue where I could buy some locally just to taste it before I > invest weeks in growing some thing..... Neither of the two > stores knew of a local grower. Do you have any idea where > I could buy a small amount? The chain store called " Jamba Juice " seems to stock wheatgrass flats in all the store here in San Francisco, hydroponically grown, but still good. I use soil. > And the lady at the health food store told me it is very > sweet tasting. She said like sugar. What should I REALLY be expecting? Well, I would beg to differ about the wheatgrass grown here in the US when it comes to that. Or at least the grass I've tasted anyway. And the grass I grow at " times " is sweet. The sweetest wheatgrass I've ever tasted was on the island of Kauai. WHEATGRASS STORY... I went back east once, had a full farm of freshly planted trays and was dismayed that no matter what I did I'd probably loose all the trays to " overgrowth " and short of refrigerating them to stunt the growth, would lose them. With nothing to lose I decided to cover the trays with covers and deprive them of all sunlight in hopes to stunt the growth so when I got back one week later I may have a chance to encounter just 3 " blades and would then reintroduce the sunlight. What happened next was amazing... I got home and immediately went back to the farm http://wiliweld.com/farm/ with very tall " PURE YELLOW " blades, kind of albino. They were close to 4 " tall. Well, I've seen yellow blades every tray I grow for I do not allow sunlight to hit my baby blades till they are 1-1/2 " to 2 " tall, and even they I filter the sunlight for I find the grass " stretches " upward faster " reaching " for faint sunlight vs slower vertical growth with abundant sunlight. I " tease " the blades of grass -- makes them grow taller. Soooooooooo, I was not really sure what to do with the 4 " tall yellow/albino trays of grass but said " what the hell, give them sunlight... " And they got green in two days, nothing seemed any different than the normal grass I grow. WRONG... The sunlight " starved " grass was TWICE as sweet as it normally grown counterparts. I have repeated the test and it does tend to be true. It appears that the absence of sunlight, in the infancy and adolescence age of the plants makes the plants produce more sugar, or sweetness.` -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com " If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Bill, thanks for that " story " . I was taught to let mine grow to 4 " w/o sunlight. I will try opening the trays at 1.5 inches the next time and see if I get a product that I can better tolerate. Although I am not wanting to use great quantities of wheatgrass, I would like to be able to do an ounce a day for about a week a month. Thanks, tammy On Apr 7, 2006, at 2:19 AM, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Thu, 6 Apr 2006 it looks like Leah Morrison composed: > > > Bill, > >   > >  Last night I spent alot of time reading the links from your > website.... > >  (Its awesome by the way.) > >  Some one else might have already asked these questions... > >  Have you spent time at either of the two centers? (Hippocrates or > the other one?) > > Leah, > > No I have not been to either. I have attended three of Brian > Clement's seminars here in San Francisco over the last three years > and since being an advocate of wheatgrass, I felt comfortable with > Hippocrates use of it. Brian Clement used to work with Ann Wigmore > at the original Boston Hippocrates Center prior to her passing and > it moving to Puerto Rico. > > In my observation(s) the raw food beliefs were basically divided > into two groups, roughly speaking. I only speak for myself and > found the split to be (in my own words here) > > (A) The green side. > > (B) The fruit side. > > Hippocrates was from (A) The green side, for Brian Clement would > state matter of factly that the sugars in fruit were " feeders " for > the cancer they battled with clients at Hippocrates. Fresh fruit, > as he stated in his early seminars were not the primary source of > nutrition, greens were. > > Others in the raw world thrive on alot of fresh fruit, I guess the > term " Fruitarians " came from their practice. > > I personally do better with more greens, and less fruit. > > > > >  From the reading, I see the health benefits of wheat grass. > > I asked around here at the health food store if they had any > > clue where I could buy some locally just to taste it before I > > invest weeks in growing some thing..... Neither of the two > > stores knew of a local grower. Do you have any idea where > > I could buy a small amount? > > The chain store called " Jamba Juice " seems to stock wheatgrass flats > in all the store here in San Francisco, hydroponically grown, but > still good. I use soil. > > >  And the lady at the health food store told me it is very > > sweet tasting. She said like sugar. What should I REALLY be > expecting? > > Well, I would beg to differ about the wheatgrass grown here in the > US when it comes to that. Or at least the grass I've tasted anyway. > And the grass I grow at " times " is sweet. > > The sweetest wheatgrass I've ever tasted was on the island of Kauai. > > > WHEATGRASS STORY... > > I went back east once, had a full farm of freshly planted trays and > was dismayed that no matter what I did I'd probably loose all the > trays to " overgrowth " and short of refrigerating them to stunt the > growth, would lose them. > > With nothing to lose I decided to cover the trays with covers and > deprive them of all sunlight in hopes to stunt the growth so when I > got back one week later I may have a chance to encounter just 3 " > blades and would then reintroduce the sunlight. > > What happened next was amazing... > > I got home and immediately went back to the farm > http://wiliweld.com/farm/ with very tall " PURE YELLOW " blades, kind > of albino. They were close to 4 " tall. > > Well, I've seen yellow blades every tray I grow for I do not allow > sunlight to hit my baby blades till they are 1-1/2 " to 2 " tall, and > even they I filter the sunlight for I find the grass " stretches " > upward faster " reaching " for faint sunlight vs slower vertical > growth with abundant sunlight. I " tease " the blades of grass -- > makes them grow taller. > > Soooooooooo, I was not really sure what to do with the 4 " tall > yellow/albino trays of grass but said " what the hell, give them > sunlight... "  And they got green in two days, nothing seemed any > different than the normal grass I grow. > >      WRONG... > > The sunlight " starved " grass was TWICE as sweet as it normally grown > counterparts. > > I have repeated the test and it does tend to be true. It appears > that the absence of sunlight, in the infancy and adolescence age of > the plants makes the plants produce more sugar, or sweetness.` > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com >                 > " If your life was full of nothing but > sunshine, you would just be a desert. " > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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