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🚨Just a little warning for all who are canning pickles or anything using vinegar.
This year you cannot just grab a plastic jar of vinegar or even pickling vinegar without checking the label. Safe pickling requires 5% acidity....for the first time we are seeing 4% acidity vinegar... on the shelves. That renders anything pickled in the 4% NOT shelf stable. There are several canning FB pages where everyone is warning ...for the first time ever...to check those labels or you could be throwing out many jars of unsafe pickled veggies.

China started installing floating gardens on the roofs of public parking lots, transforming these areas into lush green spaces. These gardens not only enhance the urban landscape but also create vital habitats for bees and other pollinators, crucial for biodiversity.

This green initiative aims to counteract the effects of urban concrete, providing wildlife refuges and improving air quality. Parking lot gardens symbolize progress in urban sustainability, emphasizing the importance of integrating nature into city environments.

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GINGER!!
Candied ginger is cheap, healthy, and tasty! eating a piece or two after lunch every day. Tons of health benefits!!

From: https://www.snackhawaii.com/blogs/news/9-health-benefits-of-eating-ginger-candy

1: Germ-Fighting

Fresh ginger (Zingiber officinale) helps your body to get rid of redundant and potentially harmful bacteria. Include ginger into your everyday meals and water, and you may just keep the doctor away (who said that saying was only about apples?)

Ginger has also been proven to help fight shigella, E.coli, and other bacteria that lead to all kinds of diseases.

This powerful root helps your immune system stay clean and healthy, protecting you from germs.

2: Nausea Calming

If you have frequent morning sickness due to pregnancy, seasickness or motion sickness, ginger may help you calm it down. It reduces nausea by eliminating extra gas in your intestines.

In any pharmacy you’ll find most of the treatments for motion or travel sickness contain ginger.

3: Lowering Blood Sugar

A Ginger and Blood Sugar study was conducted recently that created a hypothesis that ginger can ‘teach’ your body how to use insulin to lower blood sugar better. Of course, more research is necessary to check the theory and put it into practice.

4: Arthritis Symptom Aid

Due to its anti-inflammatory properties, ginger may help relieve symptoms of most diseases, from the common cold to arthritis. As for the latter, it has been widely reported to provide relief for people who suffer from;

Osteoarthritis;
Rheumatoid arthritis

The root may ease the pain and reduce swelling if you take it as tea, in a meal, as a candy, or if you put a compress on a sore part of the body.

5: Mouth Hygiene Boost

Brightly white teeth and fewer bacteria in the mouth are guaranteed if you eat ginger at least every other day. And we’re talking not only about the quality of your breath and teeth whiteness.

Harmful bacteria may lead to periodontal disease which may lead to tragic consequences. It’s a gum infection that is treated for a long time and brings lots of inconveniences into the life of a patient.

6: Sore Muscle Healer

If you’re a regular at the gym, you know what sore muscles feel like. The next time you work so hard that your body is in pain the next morning, try eating some ginger. It won’t get rid of the aches completely, but you will feel much more relieved.

There was a study conducted that showed two groups of people who enjoy regular exercise after training. One group ate ginger and felt much better in terms of muscle soreness than the other.

Even though we recommend sugar in moderation, try munching on a piece of Sweet Crystalized Ginger after a workout to help those sore muscles, and boost that energy.

7: Slowing Cancer Growth

Ginger has bioactive molecules detected as a result of studies that may be helpful with halting cancer cell growth or slowing it down. They may help with the following types of the disease:

Gastric;
Skin;
Liver;
Colorectal;
Breast;
Ovarian;
Prostate.

More studies are necessary to prove the hypothesis, but we’re getting there. After all, ginger has antioxidants. So, it may prevent cancer as well.

8: Indigestion Aid

Try eating ginger before meals to aid indigestion. It helps the food move through the system faster, relieving unpleasant symptoms and helping to recover faster. You can eat ginger candy, drink tea, warm water with honey and some of the root, or add the spice to your meals.

9: Bad Cholesterol Lowering

LDL or ‘bad’ cholesterol is the one all health magazines are encouraging you to cut from your diet. Ginger will help reduce its levels by about 30 points on average. There was a study involving a focus group that ate 5 g of the root every day for 90 days. Most participants have seen a drop by around 30 points. Some lost more, some less, but the effect is clear.

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This mini orange tree was a half-dead stick with a couple of green leaves. My daughter was going to throw it out. I saved it from death. It's growing like crazy and has 3 little oranges!!

FACTS ABOUT CUCUMBERS
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber will react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemicals will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.
12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your taps, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the
shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

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Hot flashes are more dangerous than previously thought, ....... Damn!!! 😳

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