Berries to grow for health

[Just AnotherPerson]

I wanted to share something that I researched last month, that is about growing your own berries for health.

Goji berries are a super food, the only downside is that they are mostly grown in China and they contain lead, the answer is to grow them yourself. 5tbsp contain 4 grams of protein, and 501% of vitamin A. They are packed with nutrients and support immune function. They have anti aging properties, support glucose regulation, and are packed with antioxidants.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322693

Currants are next up on the list of a super food berry that you can grow in your garden. Just like the Goji berries they are loaded with antioxidants, support immune function. They are anti-infalmmatory and support your health from your eyes, brain, lungs, to your heart.
https://www.healthifyme.com/blog/bla...rant-benefits/

[donttread]

I wanted to share something that I researched last month, that is about growing your own berries for health.

Goji berries are a super food, the only downside is that they are mostly grown in China and they contain lead, the answer is to grow them yourself. 5tbsp contain 4 grams of protein, and 501% of vitamin A. They are packed with nutrients and support immune function. They have anti aging properties, support glucose regulation, and are packed with antioxidants.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322693

Currants are next up on the list of a super food berry that you can grow in your garden. Just like the Goji berries they are loaded with antioxidants, support immune function. They are anti-infalmmatory and support your health from your eyes, brain, lungs, to your heart.
https://www.healthifyme.com/blog/bla...rant-benefits/

Apparently they were blamed for a fungus that they thought threated logging. Or at least that's the official story.

[carolina73]

Apparently they were blamed for a fungus that they thought threated logging. Or at least that's the official story.

Just pines.

But this list of benefits, sounds like everything you hear in a health supplement commercial.

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

Apparently they were blamed for a fungus that they thought threated logging. Or at least that's the official story.

My father worked on a blister rust/ribes eradication crew in 1946. The fungus has nearly eradicated several species of pines in the U.S. The infection and its spread is human caused.

https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disa...WhitePine.aspx

One of the earliest attempts to control blister rust was to destroy infected white pines as they were found, but the relatively long latent period of infection (the time from initial infection until symptoms or signs are produced) doomed this method. The next method attempted was to prevent further introduction and spread of the disease by laws (i.e., quarantines) that prohibited or restricted the movement of host plants from one region to another. The United States had no laws restricting the introduction of plants until the 1912 Plant Quarantine Act, which was a direct result of the introduction of blister rust. Quarantine No. 1 prohibited importing five-needled (i.e., white) pines into the country. A later quarantine, No. 26, prohibited taking currant and gooseberry bushes west of the Mississippi River. This was an attempt to restrict the disease to the eastern United States. But, as was later learned, the rust was already in the west, having been introduced on imported pines to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1910. However, Quarantine No. 26 also authorized the destruction of cultivated currants, and this was accomplished in a relatively short time (Figure 10). The greatest effort at control was to destroy Ribesbushes from pine stands, but this method also failed. This attempt was based on the fact that spores from pine do not infect other pines, but that infection of pines came only from Ribes. Eradication of cultivated Ribes was relatively successful, but the abundance of wild Ribes spp. in remote and difficult terrain (Figure 11, Figure 12) made this impractical. Some eastern states still regulate the planting of susceptible, cultivated Ribes spp. (To find regulations of individual states, search for "ribes" at http://nationalplantboard.org/)

The eradication of wild Ribes was an extensive program and required much hand labor that often was not available. However, the blister rust control program got a tremendous boost when government relief programs during the Great Depression of 1933 provided work for the unemployed. The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of these programs and was designed to utilize labor on projects that would not compete with the private sector. These projects were primarily forestry and soil conservation. As many as 11,000 CCC men were employed in a single year for Ribes eradication in the national forests (Figure 13, Figure 14). In 1946, 175 people were employed for barberry eradication against wheat stem rust in the entire U.S. (see Stem rust of wheat lesson) vs. 2,500 people for Ribes eradication in the Northwest.

[donttread]

Just pines.

But this list of benefits, sounds like everything you hear in a health supplement commercial.

Very true and I have never believed in a panasea, however many of these herbs have benefit. Because of all the type/sales pitches it is very difficult to figure out which might be helpful and affordable for you. But sometimes it's worth the work