by
Paul
Benhaim
Sage
The individual leaves work well in tea or with onions or savoury
nut dishes. Can be used in hemp miso dressing. The tea is good
for sore throats. Helps digestion of rich fatty foods.
Thyme
Also of the mint family it is easy to grow. The leaves and flowers of
this common garden shrub work well with courgettes, peppers and
most seed dishes. Also works well in tea, and acts as an appetite
stimulant and digestive.
If it is harvest time, store fresh herbs in oil and refrigerate
until needed.
Leaf
Curd
A great addition to most permaculture gardens. First developed by
Professor N.W. Piries who worked during World War Two to
develop a self-sufficient form of protein, it has since been
abandoned for cheap meat and dairy products whose true
environmental costs are too high for sustainability into the mid-
21st century.
The benefits of this leaf curd include:
use of various green crops otherwise seen as waste
prevention of monocultures
high quality protein, easily digestibility
high in vitamin A and E, iron, calcium and folic acid
as a protein crop this leaf curd produces more protein per