Mum turns microgreen side hustle into thriving business thanks to growing hunger for health foods
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Clancy Gillingham harvests parts of her microgreens each day.
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A mother of two s side hustle has turned into a veritable love fest that is likely to see her put on staff to assist her thriving microgreen business.
Key points:
Research shows microgreens can contain four to 40 times more nutrients than their mature counterparts
A microgreen seed supplier says interest in buying microgreens has increased by up to 50 per cent
A new grower has discovered an untapped market on the Capricorn Coast
Dynamics of Diabetes: Diabetes Meal Planning
By Constance Brown-Riggs, MSEd, RDN, CDCES, CDN
Today’s Dietitian
Helping Clients Rediscover the High-Carbohydrate Foods They Love
Having diabetes shouldn’t prevent clients and patients from living healthy lives and enjoying the ethnic foods they grew up with. Unfortunately, that’s not the message many people of color with diabetes receive during encounters with nutrition professionals. All too often, starchy vegetables such as pumpkin, plantain, and cassava, which are the foundation of many global cuisines, are classified as “bad” because of their high carbohydrate content and value on the glycemic index (GI). This article provides insights on how Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and Asians with diabetes can safely include traditional starchy vegetables in their meal plans.
AJ TaylorFebruary 28, 2021Last Updated: February 28, 2021
Iowa children at 80 schools and early care centers ate healthy local food last fall despite the pandemic, thanks to the Local Produce and Protein Program grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (which was funded by the CARES Act). More than half of the schools partnered with a local food hub for procurement.
Food hubs are organizations that connect farmers with buyers, to aggregate and often deliver locally raised vegetables, dairy products and meat. Food hubs can help institutions purchase local food at a larger scale, expanding the market for Iowa-grown food and bringing more income to local farmers. Ten hubs operating across Iowa in 2020 belong to the Iowa Food Hub Managers Working Group, supported by staff at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development. Eight of the hubs supported the Local Produce and Protein Program in some way.
Funds for local produce grow crops, grow profits and grow Iowa s children msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Drinking Milk While Breast-Feeding May Reduce Kids’ Food Allergy Risk
Children of mothers who drink relatively more cow s milk during breast-feeding are at reduced risk of developing food allergies. That is the conclusion of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in a new study published in the scientific journal
Nutrients.
The result is based on a survey of more than 500 Swedish women s eating habits and the prevalence of allergies in their children at 1 year of age. We have found that mothers of healthy 1-year-olds consumed more cow s milk during breast-feeding than mothers of allergic 1-year-olds. Though the association is clear, we do not claim that drinking cow s milk would be a general cure for food allergies. says Mia Stråvik, a doctoral student in the division of food science at Chalmers University of Technology, and first author of the study.