GreenMarket News Brief

Heat Wave causes Wheat prices to skyrocket!

With this summers heat wave and drought, wheat crops are bad off, thus causing huge price increases. Watch for Wheat Grass Juice shots at your juice bar go up big time!

With us and our seed, we do not have a great problem. Why? We buy our seed directly from the farmer, thus giving us the best price direct from the field so to speak and by the ton.

Juice prices will go up everywhere, even ours, but our minimal increase will occur at the beginning of 2013 when Fedex shipping costs will go up as usual.

We are here on your side helping you achieve a longer and healthier life!

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A report in Nutrition Industry Executive (Dec. 2011) states that: "Magnesium supplements may help dilate blood vessels and alleviate arterial spasms." What do we find in VerdeGrass, high amounts of chlorophyll, to which the central element is Magnesium! Plus along with, "Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to decrease high blood triglyceride (fat) levels." By Janet Poveromo

Yup, that is what is happening. Some folks are growing Wheat Grass hydroponically and this leaves the user short on nutrition. Though they use fish poop in solution, what do the fish eat? How much heavy metals and other contaminants are in that fish food?

We use FISH! Yup, when I go fishing and am lucky enough to bring some home, the fillets are removed, the rest is chopped and turned into our compost piles. Mother Nature, the worms, natural bacteria and fungi do the rest.

Have you tasted the Roma Tomatoes from the grocery lately? A cardboard box might be easier to chew, not saying anything about the nutrition, what nutrition?

Wheat prices sour! Yup they've doubled, but then gas has gone down...right? Just ask BP.

About BPA...clearly it is a problem, as so many chemicals are. In the Nov. 7th, 2009 issue of Science News an article agreed that women exposed early in their pregnancies to BPA had BPA in the lower ppm range where as BPA values later than 16 weeks showed no behavior link in children. Meaning higher rates early on could be problematic.

Early data from the Warner Babcock Institute points to cash register and credit card receipts as potentially rich sources of BPA. "The biggest (BPA) exposures, in my opinion, will be cash register receipts.", says John Warner.

This is not a simple answer. Perhaps we should ask Fedex and the oil companies? For us to send you our VerdeGrass we must use an insulated shipping carton and dry ice to keep the juice frozen.

For most shipments in the upper mid-west ground service will work but for the majority of shipments we must use 2nd Day Air Service! If not the juice will thaw and be destroyed.

Also realize that there is a trade off here. We are located in the country, creating wonderfully rich, worm laden compost to grow our wheat grass upon. We also have a 160' deep well that provides us with Lake Superior glacial aquifer water. If we were located close to the cities for convenience our water would be chlorinated and fluoridated, do you want that? We would also have the associated air pollution contaminating our soil, do you want that also? Clearly NO.

We try our best to keep costs down for us and for you but until UPS & Fedex costs go down (they go up 6% every year) or those of the oil barons (which won't happen), we do our best for you.

Look at it this way: If delivering 1cs of VerdeGrass to Chicago from here in central WI, travel time is 8+ hours round trip, 450+ road miles and 1 tank+ of gas. Now that cost alone would be, $10/hr, wear and tear on the car and $35+ in gas...that equals $115+. For that cost we can ship 3cs of VerdeGrass to southern CA or FL without the time loss, other costs involved and still in a frozen condition.

You want frozen juice, not thawed and spoiled. You get our always fresh VerdeGrass the year around to your door as cost effective as can be. Plus with return of the shipping carton to us (refund of mailing cost ), we keep the planet cleaner, reuse them for another day, to another knowledgeable and concerned customer. Just like you!

As with all things these days false misleading information abounds, and here we have another example of this disinformation.

Wheat Grass Juice is the extraction of juice from the succulent seedling growth of a young wheat plant, a cereal grain.

Wheatgrass Juice does not exist. Wheatgrass is a natural road side grass that grows in Oregon. It clearly is not used for juicing. Capt. Tim

“Green Foods Evolution” by Janet Poveromo
Copyright Dec. 2008 Nutrition Industry Executive

"Ounce per ounce green foods [i.e. VerdeGrass] provide incredibly dense nutrition. ...an ounce of these concentrated foods contain much more of the beneficial phytonutrients found in an ounce of green vegetables. ...green foods have marked beneficial effects on cholesterol, blood pressure, immune response and cancer prevention." JP

“Many superfoods have extremely high levels of antioxidents and enzymes, so processing and packaging are extremely important...so be sure your product is packed in oxygen-impermeable packaging.

There is nothing more important than how and where green foods are grown...the environment...is vital; grown far from conventional farming in pristine air and pure water....

Think fortification, these foods fortify the body and provide nourishment...these products are best used over the long-run because they are used for nutrient value rather than as medicinal...people who are eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables should consider taking superfoods [i.e. VerdeGrass] -- in today’s world full of pollution and stress, the amount of antioxidents the body requires is much higher than it was 100 years ago, so eating superfoods will benefit everyone.” Bob Capelli, Cyanotech Corp.

We were informed (02/20/07) that DuPont Chemical is now offering to many wheat grass growers, their new inorganic growing mixture to grow wheat grass upon! So buyers beware of these practices, ask questions!

This News Brief will be updated whenever any important information about our product or associated news is available.