Sentences with phrase «so wild plants»

Not exact matches

This year I planted some legion poppies in my garden, and they are so stunning, much bigger than the wild type but still delightful.

Well as to our ancestors sprouting plants, I'm pretty sure as hunters and gatherers they picked wild baby greens... so now we don't have to go hunt... HURRAY!!!

That said, some plant foods have a higher bioavailability of protein compared to other plant foods so if you want to increase your plant protein, here are 10 rich sources: lentils, beans, peanuts, tree nuts (such as cashews and almonds), seeds (such as hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sesame seeds), quinoa, leafy greens, nutritional yeast, tofu and tempeh, wild rice, and green vegetables like broccoli.

Phil Wild, CEO of James Cropper plc said: «Finding better and more responsible ways to produce the high - quality product our customers expect is central to what we do, so our investment in the Reclaimed Fibre Plant is a natural part of James Cropper's evolution.

He recommended a few guidebooks: Samuel Thayer's Nature's Garden, John Kallas» Edible Wild Plants, and Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill.

Wild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and sWild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and swild plants, so that they can bear fruit and seed.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much...

With the loss of so many of our wild places and their wild flora, garden - worthy forms of wild plants are even thinner on the ground.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much fun.»

Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonised America, archaeologists have discovered.

This is important because in the wild, plants likely evolved to keep the drought - response pathways inactive until needed so that they could save the energy the responses would require.

The researchers set out to understand how this drought tolerance came about by comparing the set of expressed genes (the transcriptome) in the mutants to that in normal (so - called wild - type) plants.

To be clear, we're all about sustainable and ethical animal protein sources like wild - caught fish, pastured eggs, and grass - fed and finished beef if it works for your body, but everyone knows those foods are rich in protein, so we wanted to give you options in the plant - based realm.

The «original» banana had little edible fruit and many seeds, so we've been able to cross-breed it with other wild plant species to create the yellow banana we enjoy today.

My friend, who I will leave unamed, just made the argument that wild game is healthier to eat than non-organic plants with all their pesticides, so it is healthier and more affordable for him to keep eating wild meat and some organic vegetables than it would be for him to switch to a vegan life style where he would have to consume more non-organics.

Wild plants seek their own reproductive advantages, so they have abundant seeds and thick exteriors.

So the government gave housewives throughout the country a list of «valuable wild plant supplements» to use for vegetables, which included «nettles, goutweed, and dandelions... as excellent sources of iron and vitamin C.» Foraging for wild edibles became common.

So like our true paleo ancestors the best approach in today's world is likely a plant based diet with small servings of wild seafood and / or grass fed bison or game meat that is very close in composition to the animals that true paleos ate versus the fat and pesticide laden, nutrient - deficient, modern livestock meat and farmed seafood.

Consider that nettle roots are wild plants; they're so common that a farmer attempting to sell them would go bankrupt pretty quickly.

So while I am someone who absolutely loves plant - based foods, fully understands their benefit and necessity in staying healthy (and negatives of too much meat), I also found that including some animal protein in my diet, including organic eggs, wild fish and small amounts of grass - fed red meat, helps me:

Plant - based essential oils are some of my very favorite scents, so I love that Tom's of Maine Long Lasting Deodorant choices include Wild Lavender, Tea Tree and Lemongrass.

Medli is already in the game, and with the reemergence of the koroks in Breath of the Wild there's lots of ways his moveset could be utilized — various deku items (sticks, leaves, nuts, and so on), dancing with maracas, or perhaps using his cello to command the plant life around him.

If they can not find the plant's name, let them know that they should be able to capture enough information on their page so that someone with wild plant expertise can help them identify it later.

So while dogs clearly have the teeth, digestive tract and physiology to eat plant matter, you need to stick to what they'd eat in the wild if you really want to feed a species appropriate diet.

Because dogs spend so much time outside and have little awareness of the dangers of wild plants, they're far more likely to ingest toxic mushrooms than humans.

Numerous household and wild plants are toxic to dogs, so if you're a dedicated botanist, be sure to keep these out of your four - legged pal's reach:

His Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not - So - Wild) Places (William Morrow Publishers, 1994) is considered a classic on the subject.

Though it's not the most picturesque member of our plant communities here in the Golden Gate National Parks, this wild, not - so - pretty native proves that plants are not always there to be something nice to look at, but can serve more utilitarian roles within a healthy, thriving ecosystem.

For the plant life, you can even grow them at the local farm so you don't have to worry about hunting for them in the wild.

Three, 800 ppm refers to productive container plants in greenhouses, not to all plants everywhere, so saying «until we are above 800 ppm,» assumes we can generalize from greenhouses to the wild, and from domestic plants to all plants, which we know we can not do.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

In the wild, Xate seeds only sprout after passing through the digestive systems of birds, so at the nursery they treat the seeds with hot water before planting them.

2 Go wild about herbs While fresh herbs such as basil and mint give off a lovely aroma in the kitchen, try planting a herb box overflowing with marjoram, lemon balm and rosemary right by your back door, so that you'll get an olfactory hit the moment you step outside.

Finally, including a few natural elements will help bring life to an interior, so go wild with plants aplenty and vases of beautiful blooms!

«He's spending in the region of # 30,000 on flowers and says they've decided no cut flowers, just planted wild ones, so that in the future, their great - grandchildren can see where they made a promise to each other.»

But by the 1930s it was clear this was no ordinary ornamental plant; it had broken out into the wild and was so intense it was beginning to reduce house prices in the West Country.

Bittersweet grows wild in my area so I can find the real deal each year... but because it is an invasive plant illegal to grow in most areas, real bittersweet may be hard to find.