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There are only healthy, life giving ingredients in all three: Plain Flax Sprouts’ ingredients is certified organic sprouted flax seed; Flax Sprouts with Blueberries’ ingredients are certified organic flax sprouts, certified organic blueberries (organic blueberries, organic evaporated cane juice, organic maple syrup, and organic sunflower oil); Flax Sprouts with Cranberries’ ingredients are certified organic sprouted flax seed, certified organic cranberries (organic cranberries, organic evaporated cane juice and organic cranberry seed oil). That’s it!

The powder form allows for easy mixing into applesauce, cereals, smoothies, yoghurt, baking or entrée recipes, by itself, and so on. One to three 10 grams scoops a day is all that is recommended.

Of course, the myriad of benefits of flax seed are well known today. BioSprouts is even better in that it is made of “a truly living, enzyme active superfood providing the perfect blend of health promoting nutrients including omega 3 fatty acids (over 2300mg per serving for the Plain Flax Sprouts, 1600mg for Blueberry and Cranberry), lignans, soluble and insoluble fiber, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.”

We have tried Organic BioSprouts™ Flax Sprouts and found it to be a delicious and easy way to get the many health benefits of flax seeds into our diet. Flax seed oil does not stay fresh very long, and flax seeds by themselves are hard to chew or require grinding to make more digestible. In contrast, the BioSprouts is ready to use, just place a scoop into your favorite food, stir it together, and reap the benefits!

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Green Harmony Living Store - Raw, Vegan, & Organic Foods & Products
Green Harmony Design - Beautiful, Edible, & Sustainable Gardens
Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany

Hi Roswitha

Thanks for your fertilizer question. Your question and my answer follow.

Question: Would you consider selling Market America’s Lawn Power or Plant Power products on your Green Harmony Living’s website?

Answer: I looked at the Lawn Power product. I think its premise is sound: adding enzymes, nitrogen, and minerals to plants and the soil are good. However, what I don’t like is that the ingredients list is vague; it doesn’t state exactly what the ingredients are; which enzymes, what form of nitrogen, and what form of minerals. There are natural forms and synthetic forms of each. I prefer to use only natural, organic, and animal free forms. I did read that this product uses urea nitrogen which is a red flag for me since I am morally and health consciously opposed to using slaughterhouse products. Urea is made from the urine from slaughtered cows and buying it supports the slaughter industry.

I prefer to use natural forms of nitrogen from plants such as cottonseed meal, and will occasionally, if for a special reason, use non slaughterhouse, composted animal manure from wild animals, such as bat or bird guano, since then my plants and in turn I am consuming what is naturally found in the environment. Using only plant forms is called veganic, as in veganic fertilizer. Veganic is important to me since I think that if you apply animal fertilizers to plants, the plants take up many of the toxins, which are higher in animals than in plants, so that when you eat that plant, you are getting more toxins into your body. In fact, there is a line of science called phytoremediation that uses plants to take toxins out of the soil for safer cleanup and disposal, so this phenomenon is well documented. I want to live as toxin free as possible and I think that what fertilizer I put on my vegetable garden is important to my health, so I choose only plant derived fertilizers which I think are safe and effective.

To go a step further, in most instances for a vegetable garden, one doesn’t need fertilizers if you are able to put in a little extra effort. Good, homemade compost is the best nutrient source and all your plants need. For lawns or ornamental plant beds, some organic, plant fertilizers may be needed to establish a new planting, but once the plants are established after a few years, and you employ nutrient recycling where you leave the lawn and plants trimmings on the lawn and beds, then fertilizers aren’t really needed. Using fertilizers, especially slaughterhouse and factory farm derived ones, causes more global warming since it generally takes much energy to produce the fertilizer, transport it, and then once applied, the plants need more water to deal with the higher nutrient load, especially during the summer when plants can burn or die out from too much fertilizer. The only fertilizers found in nature are naturally occurring animal excrement, nutrient recycling from leaves and other decaying plant (mostly) and animal (some) materials, and nitrogen from the air (which is why plants get a boost after a rain),


In my green point of view, following nature's way is the soundest way to go since in nature we see regeneration and longterm sustainability at work as opposed to humans’ unsustainable, rape the earth mantra which will only bring about the planet’s demise.

In summary, the lawn power sounds fine in premise, but I don’t agree with the use of urea nitrogen and cannot comment on the other ingredients since it doesn’t state what they are. For me as a consumer or when deciding what products to carry on our webstore, I do not buy from companies who are vague or do not list exactly what the ingredients are since it appears that the company is trying to hide the truth and are, in many cases, using cheaper ingredients, i.e. slaughterhouse and factory made, and then cover this fact up with glossy marketing and then sell it to unknowledgeable consumers. That is, in a nutshell, how most products are made and sold by large companies, especially in the USA. That is why we started our company Green Harmony Living, to offer to the public really healthy, really green, really truthful, really effective products that are hard to find anywhere else these days! I apologize if I gave you more information than you wanted to know. I believe in being honest with people since I believe this helps people more in the long term.

To our green and healthy world!

Roland Oehme

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A friend of mine sent me an email with an attached publication written by some group extolling the importance of humans getting enough Omega 3s in our diet. I have read about the importance of Omega 3s since I used to eat hemp seeds and it is advertised as being a rich source of these healthy fats. Which reminds me, it is time to order some more hempseed!!! I love the taste of hempseed and it is easy to use in many foods.

I don;t believe one needs to eat fish in order to get Omega 3s, as repeatedly written in the article, after all the fish is getting the Omega 3s not from itself but from plants, ie from algae and other water growing plants!!! I just love how these typical medical or organization publications write these supposedly helpful information writings and write that a person has to eat animal products to be healthy. Well what about all of the vegan animals out there that are doing just fine, in fact, thriving on their purely plant diets??? I believe humans are also designed to thrive on a purely or mostly vegan diet.

I know Purslane, in fact it grows as a so called weed here, or as I like to say a "wild plant". Purslane is healthy and rich in Omega 3s too. However, it does have the same oxalic acid that is found in Spinach I believe and as such is not recommended to be eaten too often since this acid can deplete minerals from the body or such. Purslane seems to grow the best in compacted soils in seemingly the least favorable conditions. So, it is a good idea to leave areas in the vegetable garden that is untilled, unmaintained, where nutritious wild plants, such as Purslane, Lambsquarters, Nettle, Malva (see photo above), etc., may grow, and provide you with super foods that will do wonders for your body.

I think our modern lifestyles today have taken us away from our gardens and from the wilderness where we would have historically gotten our nutrients, from the wild foods, unwashed and unprocessed. Look at all of the animals out there doing just fine eating what they find in the wild, including vegan animals.

So, that's why I think it is very valuable, even essential for every person to grow their own food and to not wash their food unless they have to. Our overly clean society washes much of the nutrients off of the food. Yes if we just grazed in our vegetable gardens on all of the planted and wild greens there we would get a more complete diet. To me this seems to be the easiest and closest way for us humans to replicate the wild, healthy diet our bodies were designed to consume. That's what my dad taught me and that's why you see me grazing in the vegetable garden or anywhere else I see a healthy dandelion growing!

I do eat purslane, when I am lucky enough to find it growing wild in our garden. It is great in a salad since it is fresh tasting (slightly acidic) and crunchy. Now where do I order my hempseeds??... Oh, that's right...at www.GreenHarmonyLiving.com.

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Today I am introducing the dental care product called Pure Monosodium Phosphate (MSP). This is another fine dental product made by K. “Victoria” Van Cleef’s company. She is the author of the amazing book The Perfect Prescription for Your Teeth: Three Simple Steps to Perfect Teeth and Gums All the days of Your Life. I have a review of this book in an earlier blog. MSP provides the important nutrient phosphate. As is quoted from Dr Gerard Judd’s book Good Teeth Birth to Death, from whom Van Cleef got her information about teeth care, “You might be interested to know that DNA and RNA contain phosphate and this phosphate is necessary in building all of our connective tissue and therefore the animal husbandry people feed it big time to their cattle and horses. Medics and alternative health people in the stores and elsewhere have no idea about this and it is about time for a change.”

Van Cleef writes more about the importance of MSP in her book, “Dr. Judd mentions that phosphate regulates body pH as well. His research also points out the danger of not having enough phosphate present in body fluids so it can crowd out alien ions such as fluoride, chloride, carbonate, sulfate and sulfide.”

Dr. Judd stipulates that the reason for losing tooth enamel as we age is from lack of proper nutrition including calcium and phosphate. He also says that loss of tooth enamel is related to bone loss that is commonly seen is the elderly such as osteoporosis, arthritis, and tennis elbow that result from a lack of phosphate in the diet.

MSP is easy to incorporate into your busy lifestyle. Dr. Gerard Judd recommends you simply dissolve 1/6 teaspoon (1 gram) of monosodium phosphate in 1 inch of water for a person who weighs 165 pounds. Let dissolve, then fill the glass with water and drink it. If you weigh less or more than 165 pounds you adjust accordingly. Subtract or add ¼ gram of phosphate for each 40 pounds difference in body weight. For instance, a 5 year old would take approximately ¼ gram per day; an adult woman would take approximately ¾ gram per day.

Please read my blogs about other dental care products and the “Dangers of Dentistry” to learn about why not to use toothpaste or fluoride and instead to use Toothsoap™.

As part of the proper dental and body care program, I highly recommend the use if MSP, monosodium phosphate since phosphate is an important element in our bone and teeth structure. So if you want to rejuvenate your teeth or maintain them in great condition, be sure to use MSP and the other dental care products recommended by Dr. Gerard Judd and Victoria Van Cleef. All of these products are available on our website.

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Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany

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Green Harmony Design - Beautiful, Edible, & Sustainable Gardens
Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany

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Green Harmony Living Store - Raw, Vegan, & Organic Foods & Products
Green Harmony Design - Beautiful, Edible, & Sustainable Gardens
Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany

Every two years at the Federal Garden Show in Germany, called BUGA, there is an exhibit organized by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection that showcases plants as valuable renewable resources. Outside there are many rows of various crops organized by industrial categories like dyes, pharmaceutical, foods, textiles, oils, fuels, and so on. Inside the pavilion the various plants are shown with their respective end uses. For instance, hemp is always a major example displayed here, growing outside, and shown inside usually shown with the hemp door panels used by some car manufacturers like Daimler as well as other uses.

There are many other plants that may be used as renewable resources for our industrial society. This exhibit and the garden shows are truly remarkable and you will surely not see anything like them here in the US. This progressive attitude by the German government and its citizens, as is showcased at their garden shows, is the reason that I started organizing ecotours to Germany every two years to coincide with the garden shows. This ecotour visits some of them most cutting edge sustainable design and living concepts in architecture, garden design, urban planning, product design, transportation, and so on. The next ecotour is next year in August 2009. To learn more, please visit: www.GreenHarmonyTours.com.

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Green Harmony Design - Beautiful, Edible, & Sustainable Gardens
Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany

My outlook is entirely nature based. Every thing I do I see from the vantage point of how this affects nature, will it harm?, will it help?, will it work within the laws of nature? I seek solutions that will work with nature’s laws. For instance, my main thought when I think about buying something (which I try to limit to only real needs) is, how natural and safe for nature is this product? So, products that are biodegradable, recyclable, or are made from natural plant materials are always preferable to me since they work within nature within nature’s system and will not simply end up in a landfill further polluting the planet. This is one of the main reasons that I use in my own life and promote the use of hemp and the many products from it in body care, foods, clothing, bags, paper, and so on. Hemp is very easy to grow and grows so dense that weeds are shaded out, meaning less or no pesticides or herbicides are needed as is typical for many conventionally grown crops. Hemp actually helps to rebuild the soils health through shading and the buildup of organic matter. And hemp has many uses that make it a valuable crop for farmers. Hemp’s environmentally friendliness is the reason that we sell many HEMP PRODUCTS (and many others) at our green store: Green Harmony Living


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Roland’s Websites:
Green Harmony Living - Planet friendly website
Green Harmony Living Store - Raw, Vegan, & Organic Foods & Products
Green Harmony Design - Beautiful, Edible, & Sustainable Gardens
Green Harmony Tours - Sustainable Ecotours to Germany