Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling Springs, hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was introduced to the most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, (such as living without harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade soaps, etc. Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and fruits. The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known simply as, The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. He is very knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks like he just sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his picture and you will see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not very claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I couldn't help myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. It was wonderful. He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing compared to Italian, I guess) and the fresh tender greens and the mixture of other fresh raw, organic vegetables (one of which was raw corn) drizzled with his dressing was so good. The raw corn gives such a suprise to the salad. Not to mention it makes the salad rather attractive. So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. A little corn thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some very juicy and sweet tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. Belinda in TN P.S. Hopefully this post will make sense. As I was typing it, part of it was being moved and then disappeared all together.???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 im no expert on corn..but ill say this...i love raw corn, its yummy...but its a completely man made and man dependent product. The seeds can not be shed without man to remove the husks and spread them its been so altered as to not even exist in the wild. The plant is originally from maize..a much smaller husk with much less sugar. The present creation is made to be sweet... Deliberately. Cooked corn syrup can righteously be said to be the devil..its in everything and can be implicated in a whole myriad of diseases...even main stream news has reported on its negative effects.. buut raw.....not much of a problem..the sugar isnt denatured..is you use it as a condiment it shouldnt be a problem. as an aside...the altering of maize to corn can be blamed for the increased incidents of diabetes among american indians... peace anna On 6/1/07, Belinda <MistyBlueTN wrote: > Some years ago, a little country town in TN, called Red Boiling > Springs, hosted a folk medicine festival. I so enjoyed it as I was > introduced to the most fascinating things there. Healthy liveing, > (such as living without harmful chemicals) herbs for healing, homemade > soaps, etc. > > Anyway, I was also introduced to organinc farming, vegetables and > fruits. The booth that was set up was by a local organic farmer, known > simply as, The Barefoot Farmer. He has a website you can check out. > He is very knowledgeable, and rather " organic " himself. Sorta looks > like he just sprouted out of the ground himself LOL:o) Check out his > picture and you will see what I mean. I think it is barefootfarmer.com. > > In his booth he sold his produce and made salads for anyone that wanted > them. Though I hesitated to eat anything he prepared (ok, he was not > very claan, but he was such a delight to watch and listen too) I > couldn't help myself. So I put my prejudgements away and got a salad. > It was wonderful. He made his own dressing (some kind of dressing > compared to Italian, I guess) and the fresh tender greens and the > mixture of other fresh raw, organic vegetables (one of which was raw > corn) drizzled with his dressing was so good. The raw corn gives such > a suprise to the salad. Not to mention it makes the salad rather > attractive. > > > So is corn considered a seed? a grain? and would it be ok to eat on my > salad? Fresh corn will be coming in soon and I love it. > A little corn thrown on my tender greens salad and topped with some > very juicy and sweet tomatoes and I need no dressing at all. > > > Belinda > in TN > > P.S. Hopefully this post will make sense. As I was typing it, part of > it was being moved and then disappeared all together.???? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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