Last week Saturday, Nora Bow bought this tray of wheatgrass at the Keauhou Farmers' Market for about fifteen dollars. She snips a handful at a time to juice and the grass keeps growing.
Nora just bought herself a Green Star Juicer and quickly learned all the nuances of its twin gear set-up. Here, she's showing me where to look for the extracted juice.
Like me, Nora finds wheatgrass juice a bit harsh to drink neat, so she's going to add some mango,apples, limes and starfruit. All of them grown locally except for the apples.
Once all of the wheatgrass and fruits have been juiced, what comes out of the juicer is a roll of pulp which Nora adds to her compost pile.
After downing our shots of chlorophyll, vitamins and minerals (with just a hint of 'foul grass'), Nora took me outside to see her favorite way to Eat Local: her container garden. Nora and her husband Jeff, live at The Pines in Kailua-Kona so they don't have a lot of outdoor space or soil. Container gardening solved that.
Nora's second choice for procuring local products is to trade her homegrown veggies and herbs with friends for such things as avocados, papayas and lychee. Then she ventures out to the Farmers' Markets in Keauhou and Waimea. What she isn't able to stock up through these channels, she'll get at the local health food stores.
Nora's an inspiration for all of us who aspire to eat local, eat neat, and eat organic. Her diet is comprised of about 90% raw foods yet she cooks for her husband who is not a vegan or vegetarian and she grows her own food within a limited space. Proof of the old maxim: Where there's a will, there's a way!