These 10 Weeds Are Worth More Than Your Vegetable Garden. Why Were We Taught to Destroy Them? скачать в хорошем качестве

These 10 Weeds Are Worth More Than Your Vegetable Garden. Why Were We Taught to Destroy Them?

📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.html Every spring, billions of dollars are spent eradicating plants that fed civilizations for thousands of years. Plants the Puritans packed on the Mayflower. Plants the Aztecs died to protect. Plants clinical trials have now documented doing what forty-dollar supplements claim to do. This vault covers 10 plants growing in your yard right now that the lawn care industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and in one case a 16th-century Spanish conquistador, spent centuries trying to erase. Not because they failed. Because they worked, and they could not be owned. One was formally banned by Hernán Cortés in 1521 after the fall of Tenochtitlán, when the Spanish empire recognized it as a rival sacred food and ordered its fields burned and its seeds destroyed. It is currently growing through the cracks in your garden beds. One was deliberately brought to North America by Puritan settlers as a food and medicine crop, then systematically reclassified as a weed by Scotts Miracle-Gro in the postwar era to generate recurring herbicide revenue. A pound of it now sells for seven dollars at premium grocery stores. One has been the subject of peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials showing a 78 percent reduction in menopausal symptoms, results that outperform placebo by a factor of three. A bottle of its extract costs forty dollars at a health food store. The plant itself grows free in every temperate lawn on Earth. These are not exotic plants. They require no seed catalog, no prepared soil, no irrigation. They are already there. The only thing standing between you and a permanent free food system is knowing what to look for. 📚 Sources: Rutto, L.K., Xu, Y., Brandt, E., and Iqbal, M. "Mineral Properties and Dietary Value of Raw and Processed Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica L.)." International Journal of Food Science, 2013. Simopoulos, A.P. "Omega-3 fatty acids in wild plants, nuts and seeds." Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 11, no. S6 (2002): S163–S173. Edwards, E.J., et al. "The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science." Science Advances, 2022. Hidalgo, L.A., et al. "The effect of red clover isoflavones on menopausal symptoms, lipids and vaginal cytology in menopausal women." Gynecological Endocrinology 21, no. 5 (2005): 257–264. Ghazanfarpour, M., et al. "Red clover for treatment of hot flushes and menopausal symptoms." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 36, no. 4 (2016): 506–511. Berkeley Food Institute. "The Promise of Amaranth." University of California, Berkeley, 2022. Gaitán, María Elena. "Foods of the Américas: Amaranth, the Outlaw Grain." Ethnobotanical accounts of Aztec cultivation and Spanish prohibition, 2022. Priest, A.V. "Chenopodium berlandieri in Pre-Columbian Eastern North America." Journal of Ethnobiology 12, no. 2 (1992): 209–227. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013. Wichtl, Max, ed. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis. Medpharm Scientific Publishers, 2004. Tobyn, Graeme, Alison Denham, and Margaret Whitelegg. The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge. Churchill Livingstone, 2011. #forgottenplants #edibleweeds #suppressed #ancientwisdom #foodsovereignty #ancientfood #homesteading