Managed to transplant some of my rooted branch from the fig tree last night..actually got 6 babies from it....hoping they will live in the greenhouse. It is not pleasant to be severed from the mother plant and set out on your own...cold air hitting your once comfortable roots (kind- of like being born in a way..) Now we will see if they can make it thru transplanting and live in the greenhouse. Will try to finish harvesting mucuna beans today. The favas are still growing well in the greenhouse...and the ones in the lower garden are the prettiest I have ever seen...there will be a large crop planted down there the end of Feb (or first of March, Lord willing) Have a great day. God Bless! Managed to get alll my sweet potatoes dug , rinsed and into the greenhouse to cure before boxing (overnight they had blanket covers and are under a inner hoop house covered with row cover...may have to hang a lite in there if it gets any colder tonight.).had alot bigger around then a gallon jug!

Finished harvesting mucuuna beans in the rain today. I made sure I was well covered, so I wouldn't develop the poison -ivy like rash I got 2 years ago growing them up the back side of the barn,. Well, a leaf hit me in the face and now about 10 hrs later...my face is kind-of telling me it is very unhappy...slight burny feeling, slight itch. Took a benedryl, put some echinacea tincture on it and hope I don't swell all up by morning. BUT, I have a 5 gallon bucket of mucuna beans....hope I don't regret picking them by morning. They are alot of work, but at least I know where they came from, they are not sprayed

The greenhouse is coming along....have turkey craw beans , beets,carrots, peas, tomatoes,fava beans,spinach mustard, egg plants up and many seeds just planted this week. A yellow summer squash is making it's first fruit. Don't know what will survive here in an unheated greenhouse , but this winter will be a test of many things. I am propigating fig trees , and digging holes to plant several apple varieties for a small orchard. Cleaning up spent tomatoes/corn stalks etc in the garden.
Doing a new kitchen experiment with fava sprouts for a tincture (hopefully this one will work and I can share a recipe that YOU can make in your kitchen to supplement l-dopa..those of you wanting to reduce meds, or those newly diagnosed not wanting to start on pharmecuticals will be interested in)
Have a great day...breathe deeply, exercize, get some sun, and eat nourishing foods...sing!!
Blessing ........Aunt Bean

Dad and I managed to plant 8 apple trees today....it was hard work, even after a neighbor had dug holes with a tractor post hole digger. Just hoping that in a couple of years we may start getting some fruit from them...we're not getting any younger...in 3 yrs, he will be 90! He still amazes me daily (plans to go to the senior center and play shuffleboard this morning)
The thought of being able to pick our own apples thrills me. Have been propigating fig trees and roses...all looking good so far...(wouldn't mind having figs all over the farm and will start as many "babies" as I can). So far everything in the cold (unheated) greenhouse is doing fine..will soon pick another yellow summer squash. It has gotten down to 28 degrees here one nite, but warming up daytimes. What will be bad is when days stay overcast and cold and things in the greenhouse will have to be covered with blankets The new kitchen experiment just has 2 weeks to go...hope I will have something useful to report at that time.
My friend feels that Swansons Glutathione Precursor and whey protein is helping her..(takes twice a day).anyone else tried it?? (but, she thinks she's gaining weight!)

Bean acres has new additions now...baby bunnies were born on election day. Don't know how many as yet, but the little heads I have seen pop out of the furry nest were the same as the mother (white with brown spots) Mama Cocoanut is beautiful.. Doing fall clean-up, burning corn stalks, clearing raised beds etc. Picked fava tops Saturday and as long as the temps don't drop below 26 degrees in the next week and a half, the plants should produce another batch of tincture tops . The experimental favas in the greenhouse are doing amazingly well...I can hardly believe it . Temps over 100 degrees daytime and freezing a couple times at night already (no heat and no cooling / just end vents and screen doors that are open days and closed nights!) It is a microclimate...and a rainforest when the wind blows and shakes the plastic cover! It has been cold enough in there to bite the sweet potato vines. It almost always fogs up my eyeglasses...heat and moisture! The latest kitchen experiment only has one week to go. We will be in Ohio visiting my brother with PD (on hospice) that day...so it will be the end of the week (maybe the 24th) before I get it strained and report on it. Still need a local chemist to test things for me..pray someone interested in PD will be found soon. Blessings ............ Aunt Bean

Latest kitchen trial tincture is finished and will be strained today. Then it has to settle and be be siphoned into another container the next day...so by Saturday I will know if it works for me. This is totally hydrophonic kitchen sprouted favas....so anyone can do it....so I am praying that it will give the same effect of taking care of PD symptoms
...will post Saturday. Blessings !! Aunt Bean

Well the kitchen grown favas worked ok in tincture...took care of my symptoms. I still have not learned from any chemists though if there are any harmful substances in the roots or stem. So I am going blindly into this one and will see if I get any bad effects from it.
Will report as days go by. Anyone have info on roots or stem...let me know!!!
Blessings.....stay warm and well.. Aunt Bean

Hope your visit to see your brother went well. He will be in our prayers

Hugs

Peg

Thanks for prayers. Trip to my brother went well. He is still going downhill rapidly.My grandbaby had a hard week also with chemo for leukemia and had to go back in for platelets Monday after blood work...so pray for Owen also please.He is only 18 mo old.
As for the tincture...don't know what to think as yet. I injured my back last week and have had pain in low back (about the same time I started trying the new tincture) So I went back to usual tincture until the back is better ....as you know, any stress on the body results in more symptoms (be it just a cold/ pain / cold weather and getting chilled(which I've done alot of lately)/ or emotional stress. My back feels some better this morning...so by afternoon I may try the tincture again. Still wish I knew if the plant stem and root is ok to use (free from toxins, etc.)..Anyone have any research on this???
Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for.
Enjoying our 7 bunnies which are growing so fast...hope someone will come along and teach me how to put a picture in an email or in Avatar page...they are adorable!!
Blessings .............Aunt Bean

Dad and I just got back from our second trip to Ohio...this time for my brother's memorial service. 23 and Me has not sent his report back to them yet and we are all awaiting this to see if the children should also be tested. So far, thank goodness, no PD symptoms with them. (My children have PD on both sides of the family...my son noticed an occasional off balance symptom a couple years ago). I appreciate your prayers .
. please continue to lift up his family. I love you all ...you are family to me , too.
God Bless.