Saturday I spent the day helping my husband at the barn. It wasn’t my intention as the day started, I had my own list of things to do, but like most days, I stopped at the barn and hung around a little too long. Before too long, I was put to work!

There was a person at the barn yesterday who was here with horses and while the horses munched on their afternoon feeding, we sat and talked. A few months ago, she and I had discussed our love for dogs, most specifically German Shephards, and she had given me some natural suggestions for improving my dog’s skin and coat health (salmon oil is the trick, btw). Anyways, I figured it couldn’t hurt to try her suggestion and after two weeks of salmon oil on Cala’s food, I could see a dramatic change in her coat and skin. I had received very wise advice.

So yesterday I wanted to thank her for having shared her knowledge with me. She went on to tell me some fantastic, yet true, stories of natural and organic remedies that she has known about for years. She told me her own personal story of a large wound on her leg that Neosporin actually made worse, and how she took matters into her own hands and found out about Manuka Honey (its honey from New Zealand) that cured her wound. But it didn’t cure it before she was referred to a wound clinic, and when she spoke with the doctor there, she pulled the honey out of her purse and he said, “WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?” and she instantly thought that he was going to scold her. Instead, he whipped out his own pot of it and said that they have used it at the wound center for years but it is not common knowledge. (Understand me: drug companies don’t want you to know about this natural cure!)

I made mental note of the name and the story she told me and I researched the honey this morning and already ordered my first bottle from manukahoneyusa.com

She then asked me if I believed there was a cure for cancer. I told her yes, but that finding a cure for cancer is big business and that we wouldn’t be given that information for anything! She agreed, but then she told me this God Wink that happened to her recently when she learned about the information relating to asparagus. Yep, asparagus. She recounted the story that I dug up on the internet this morning and have linked to here. To tell you the truth, I don’t know that there is a ‘magic cure’ for cancer, but the anticarcinogenic properties and antioxidants in asparagus certainly are real. Please read the article and consider pureeing your own asparagus and taking your tablespoons daily as it certainly cannot hurt anything and will be good for you. I love how the biochemist relates his belief that “what cures can prevent”. Start taking your asapragus now! I am!

Asparagus has been grown since ancient Egypt. The Romans ate it year round in season, and dried in winter. It was known even then for its medicinal properties.
Like everything else, it fell out of fashion after awhile and was replaced but the “next big thing”, however, it is the same vegetable it has always been and it is a ‘superfood’ that we should all consider growing in our gardens, buying, and eating. According to everything that I am reading, it is actually best to eat the asparagus cooked, though raw is certainly better than nothing! Steam your asparagus to eat, or steam it and then pureed it and put it in the freezer and scoop out a tablespoon a day. A spoonful a day keeps the doctor away!

We also talked about the importance of beets. I have never eaten a beet, though recently I was asking friends on Twitter about beets and their taste just out of curiosity. Beets are another vegetable that has strong effect on our digestive systems and should be consumed frequently. Clean out that liver of yours and eat some beets!

Heck, don’t stop there! Get some asaparagus going too and don’t forget the honey!

*****IMPORTANT******
Did you know that the honeybees are diminishing? Remember the Bee Movie? Well it wasn’t fictional, its real. The honey bees are diminishing and I’ll bet you didn’t know how integral they are to our everyday lives, did you? Here’s an excerpt from www.helpthehoneybees.com, a campaign founded by Haagan-Daaz.

	One out of every the three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.3
	Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of more than 100 crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and provide 80 percent of the country’s pollination services.4
	The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.5
	Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50—100 flowers in each pollination trip.6
	To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.7
	When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good pollen source, it gives out samples of the flower’s nectar to its hive mates and performs a dance that details the distance, direction, quality and quantity of the food supply. The richer the food source, the longer and more vigorous the dance.8

Bees are dying due to poor nutrition and pesticides, mainly. They need things to pollinate, and we need them to do it. Here is how you can do your part to help:

Plant a Bee-Friendly Garden.

“Did you know that saving a bee is as simple as planting a seed? It’s true. By planting your very own bee-friendly garden, you can keep our little friends buzzing and pollinating. Don’t worry if you don’t have a green thumb—we’ll give you simple instructions that show you how”…. go to www.helpthehoneybees.com to download the simple instructions.