Tracy Russell - The Green Smoothie Garden: Grow Your Own Produce for the Most Nutritious Green Smoothie Recipes Possible!

Avon, Massachusetts

Why drink green smoothies? If youre like most people, youre probably concerned with your health. After every holiday season of indulging on waist-expanding goodies, youre ready to re-up your gym membership, knock off snacking between meals, and make a change in your diet.

All of those things are important to a healthy lifestyle, and drinking a green smoothie every day can have a huge impact on your life and your health. If youre consistent in this habit, you can lose anywhere from twenty to one hundred-plus pounds. Youll pleasantly surprise your doctor; she may even take you off blood pressure and cholesterol medications. In fact, some who choose to follow the green smoothie lifestyle are now running marathons because the smoothies have given them more energy and a zest for life than any diet program ever provided.

Countless scientific studies have shown a link between increased fruit and vegetable consumption and a lower risk of illness. Many fruits and vegetables have been studied for their protective effects against major diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, macular degeneration, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, and many more ailments that plague us.

Green smoothies provide a delicious and fun way of ensuring that we all consume at least five or more servings of fruits and vegetables each and every day. Even if you hate the taste of spinach or kale, a green smoothie contains just enough sweet fruit to mask the flavor. Yes, it can actually be funand deliciousto drink kale! And no more chewing monotonous salads every day!

Green smoothies can revolutionize your health. But it is also important to use only the freshest, highest-quality fruits, berries, vegetables, and leafy greens. So much of the produce in grocery stores has been treated with pesticides and fungicides. You dont know exactly how the produce was handled, and increasingly frequent recalls on items like tomatoes, spinach, and leaf lettuce is worrisome.

So why not do away with those concerns by growing your own smoothie ingredients?

• Theres the freshness. Once a fruit or vegetable has been picked, it starts to lose its vitamins and phytonutrients. Produce in the grocery store simply isnt at its peak of freshness (and nutrition), since it may have been harvested a week ago, or often longer.
• You can ensure that the lettuce, spinach, or cucumbers are truly organic and that they havent been treated with any chemicals during growth or after harvest. And you wont have any question at all about the freshness and nutritional integrity of the food you feed yourself and your family.
• And theres cost. Grocery store vegetables can be expensive; by growing your own, youll help the family budget as well as getting produce that tastes better than anything you can buy in the supermarket.

The way to get the absolute maximum nutritional benefits of your green smoothies is to grow a green smoothie garden. Not only will you be able to harvest ingredients that you use in your green smoothie that very same day, you will also have complete control over how your produce is grown.

Creating a Green Smoothie Garden not only provides the opportunity to nourish your family with the best produce you can get but also reconnects you to your food. Growing your own food is not only fun and enjoyable, it just may give you the edge you need to live a long, happy, and healthy lifethanks to your homegrown green smoothies!

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Good gardening and happy smoothies!

Green smoothies are a delicious and healthy way to supplement our diets, giving us the benefits of fruits and vegetables in intensive doses. The amazing powers of healing and the countless benefits from consuming rich greens used in smoothies are astounding. Abundant vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, omega-3s, healthy fats, phytochemicals, and proteins that can change the natural processes of your body for the better are unleashed in every green smoothie you consume!

Now not only can you find improved health through smoothies; as well, in this book well show you how to grow the veggies you use in them. When you sit down to a delicious smoothie, youll have the satisfaction of knowing that much of its ingredients came from your soil and was produced by your own hands. Homegrown vegetables are more flavorful than store-bought varieties. They dont contain preservatives or unhealthy chemical fertilizers. When you sip a green smoothie made from your own vegetables, not only will you be promoting a strong, healthy body but youll also be participating in the growing small-farming movement, which is ecologically and economically important to the future of this country.

You dont need a big plot of land to grow the veggies for healthy green smoothies. A vegetable garden can be as small or as large as you want or need; it can be in a few pots on your balcony, a large acreage in the country, or any size in between.

Smoothie Garden Solution

Gardening is good for your health! You can burn 150250 calories per hour just by getting out into your vegetable garden. Exercise also releases endorphins into the bloodstream. Endorphins make you feel happy and give you a more positive outlook overall.

Planting a vegetable garden can be very rewarding. It is miraculous how a tiny little seed can produce enough vegetables to create the amazing smoothies you love.

Before you start, though, it is important to consider that gardening does take time, money, and energy. Be realistic when you estimate how much time you have to devote to your garden. People will often start a huge garden in the spring, only to tire of it and let the weeds take over by summer. If you are a first-time gardener, start small. Increase the size of your site every year as you become more familiar with growing your own vegetables.

If you only have a few minutes a day to spend on your vegetable garden, perhaps you can start with a few pots. If you have a few hours a week, you could manage a small garden spot or perhaps a raised bed. If you want to grow enough food to feed your family all year round, you may need to set aside at least one day a week to tend to a much larger garden. No matter where you live, you can find a spot to grow some of your own vegetables.

When choosing a garden site, it is important to know what you would like to grow. Some vegetables need warmth and lots of sunlight to grow, while others do well in a shadier spot. Of course, you also need to have some idea of what kind of smoothies you like and what veggies they call for. Therefore, you may want to take a look through the recipes listed in of this book, see which ones sound especially appetizing, and plan your garden around them. Remember, you can always expand or change out vegetables in future gardening plans.