i have been trying to find any information on fava bean flower essence. does anyone know what it's properties are?
thanks

I have not heard of fava bean flower essence...have you seen it somewhere in a store or catalogue? I don't even know the properties of the tincture that I make & use ...but it works. It is made from immature flowers and leaves at the top of the plant.
Hopefullly , someone is interested in researching it and will be able to test it soon.

The beans that I planted inside are looking paler every day...I have not given them any type of fertilization, just water...and I don't think they are going to make it. I think I will try eggshell tea on them to see if it will perk them up & let you know.
Meanwhile, the ones in the 50' covered bed look beautiful and I may have tops to harvest theis weekend. I planted three raised beds with about 100 seeds on Monday in the cold rain....hope to get more in soon. The weather has not been real cooperative in this endeavor. Need to get alot more planted and very soon.
Still enjoying the dried fermented papaya and the lack of nite-time symptoms...also feel that the strawberries and rhubarb stewed together is a real boost. I also started taking Aquas from "Parkinson's Recovery" to help hydrate my system.
Doing research a couple weeks ago on Blackstrap molasses...which said it helps with constipation (got my attention !!!) And acid reflux....I rarely have that, but seem to have trouble with fluids especially getting to my stomach sometimes, mostly at night...
decided to try it. Well, I give it a thumbs up...bowels moving better, and esophagus is better too. Little by little we will get this whole PD thing figured out.
If you have time, go to PD Recovery and look at Howard's story (mostly it is about stretching and working with the Meridians to get the energy of the body flowing properly again..... I do alot of the same kinds of stretching and torking....and have never done yoga, etc....certain extreme stretches just seem to release our bodies! Pretty cool.

Hey... it almost felt like summer the other day ( in 80s for a while) I got my first good broken blisters on my hand working the garden all day. Have now planted 12 raised beds of favas and would like to get many more done.....it keeps raining! Collected the first fava tops from my 50' raised bed (that had row cover on it til a few days ago) Got about a cup and 1/4 fresh tops/ became about 1/3 cup dried . They are in brandy being shook daily and will make enough for about 1 1/2 month of tincture does for me. Nice to have an early start on the year. The plants already had aphids...ugh and I sprayed them with soapy dish water with soe parsley tea in it...will know on Saturday if this helped or not.
Aphids are the biggest problem I have encountered.
The two plants that I am growing in the window inside are about2 1/2 feet tall, very spindley, but alive. Gave them water that has has egg shells soaking in it for fertilizer. It seems to have perked them up alittle and one seems to finally be making a top. The experiment goes on.
I am still getting great results from the fava top tincture/ homemade fermented dried papaya, papaya that I've learned has papain (like bromelain for digesting proteins, etc) and quercetiin...which seems to also be helping Rick with his symptoms, too. Also eating strawberries and rhubarb stewed together...which also has quercetin...interesting.
We will still have possible frosts thru the middle of May and every opportunity to be in the garden is grabbed up...making more raised beds. I want the whole 1 1/2 acres to be wheelchair accessible and eventually easy maintanance. We are gettin new flooring put in and the installer said he would supply me with used carpet & even cut it the width I need for the pathways in the garden...that he would rather recycle it to a good use
Praise God...hope he comes thru on this. Wish you could all come visit someday.
Blessings to all Aunt Bean

What a wonderful week on the farm. We had a new neighbor move in that is very nice.
He came with a Kabota and tilled up the rest of my garden. I'd been working so hard and not getting very far making raised beds and planting favas. Buttercups were taking over the rest of the garden...I had to get the beans planted (already very late to put them in)
It made the soil like potting soil, absolutely wonderful! Said he'll do it anytime, WOW.
Today I found out thru a friend that a place in Kingsport, TN called The Exchange Place
is having a Spring Garden Festival and the first speaker is a naturopath doctor who is speaking on plants & tinctures! If the creek don't rise..Aunt Bean will be there!!!
I have collected enough tops now from my 50' raised bed to make 2 months of tincture for myself and the plants are now producing a beautiful crop of fava beans. The had gotten aphids and I tried spraying parsley tea on them (read about it somewhere)....
IT WORKED...no more aphids and I am overjoyed to say the least. Aphids have done alot of damage to last years bean crop..perhaps the parsley will keep them safe this year.
Blessings .............Aunt Bean

New excitement on the farm. A flooring salesman who layed some lamenate flooring for us actually came thru with a van full of old carpeting cut to the width of different paths in the garden / rolled up neatly so I can roll them out in the pathways to keep weeds down this year. Hopefully they will be wheelchair accessible . We shall see this weekend when I am home to put some of it out there . God is good!! Strawberries are almost ready to start harvesting....covered them with row cover this morning before leaving for work so we can get them before the hungry birds do. Get sun/ get exercize /dance!

We have had an exciting week on the farm. I was able to get two large sections of the garden into raised beds. One is especially for children...with a bean maze/ a three sisters circle( corn , pole beans, yellow squash) and 2 bean TeePees...which the beans will climb up and make a living tent for them to explore, play and pretend in. Even before the seeds have come up...two children have found it to be a wonderful place to just run the maze.
Also, we picked our first fava beans of the year. More than a plastic grocery bag full and all perfect. I had read about spraying for aphids with parsley tea with a drop of dish soap in it. The first tops I had picked were covered with aphids..so I tried the parsley and it really worked. It has been about a month since I sprayed and still no aphids and perfect beans!!! God is good....blessings! Love, Aunt Bean

Another good week on the farm...we finally had some very much needed rain!

Aunt Bean
I would have thought those aphids would add a little extra protoein to your tincture! lol (just kidding). They are already doing some studies in the UK on fava beans and mucana puriens (?sp). I will try to find moreo info on this.

Hi all. Farm is coming along fine. Aunt Bean is very well....just not around a computer to report to you lately. The greenhouse we were given is finally getting moved. Expensive to move it, but think it will be worth it for me, 80' and tall. I can picture my papaya baby trees growing in it ....drying fresh picked beans , etc... Hopefully utilizing the far back as a goat stall and having fresh goat milk next year maybe. This Saturday is our support group picnic...we will end up at the farm and I wish that you could come and be with us. I'd love to meet everyone that I have read posts from and love from neurotalk.
One person from our support group has gone off sinemet (she only started on it in April...she is using mucuna capsules and feeling better, they have also planted favas and made their first tincture to try .Will keep you posted on her progress!
God Bless You All Aunt Bean