By Wendy Gabriel
GREEN TIP: Use a salad spinner instead of paper towels to dry your salad greens. It’s a simple and inexpensive way to get the job done without the needless waste.
Since we have a teeny, tiny yard here at Gabriel Manor, we garden creatively. We plant lettuce, among other space-efficient produce, in a big pot on our deck. We harvested some of our organic greens this evening for our dinner salad and they were delicious. Usually our little Greek goddess doesn’t love lettuce but since she helped to plant it, water it, harvest it and prepare it, she felt invested in the results and ate all of her salad with delight! The baby Greek goddess seemed intrigued but with only five teeth, she wasn’t appreciating the greens like the rest of us.
It is important to choose organic produce whenever possible and even better if you grow it yourself. According to Dr. La Puma, organic produce has an average of 27% more vitamin C, 21% more iron, 29% more magnesium and more than 13% more phosphorous than conventional produce. And, of course, you aren’t getting pesticide contamination.
Check out the Eat Well Guide which lists local, sustainable and organic resources in the US and Canada. It’s a GREAT website.
And, while you’re checking out great websites, remember to stop by the Greek’s website! He’s not that green (yet) but he’s entertaining!
