Sprouting & Sprout Benefits—Seed Nutrition, How To Grow

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The immense benefits of sprouts and sprouting cannot be overstated, and they’re fast, easy, and inexpensive to grow. The best part is they’re one of the healthiest foods on earth.


Remember that old saying, ‘life begets life?’ Or how about its opposite, ‘death begets death?’ Well they both make sense, and especially when it comes to food. And particularly raw, organic, living food like sprouts. Which are not only alive, they’re peaking. At the prime of their lives.

On top of that, they’re ‘biogenic,’ meaning they literally transfer life.

And when you eat foods like that instead of dead, decaying, inanimate shells devoid of lifeforce, it ramps you up. Both physically and spiritually.

In fact sprouts are lifeforce. The stem cells of plants. And we’ve all heard about the regenerative power of stem cells, right? 

When I first started sprouting back in the 70s I purchased my first kit from the health food store and quickly discovered how easy it was to grow. And I’ve been at it ever since. Everything from radish and sunflower to sulforaphane-rich broccoli sprouts. 

In fact I still have the same sprouting jars from a succession of kits that have a long and storied history in my past. But of all the foods I grow, including grasses and the like, not many rival sprouts in nutrient-density.

Not many plants on earth are so brand new.