The inside culture

A JFN gardener, located near a facing east, south or west window will yield a continuous harvest all year long.
The explosion of life is made easier with the simplicity of our method.
The culture on soil is a sprouting process that involves drawing energy from the water, the soil and the sun.

Sunflower, buckwheat, radish, mustard, fenugreek and other young growths may be consumed and are rich in enzymes, vitamins, proteins, chlorophyll, oligo-elements and minerals.

Organic seeds and soil are strongly recommanded for inside shoots growing.

You harvest and consume this way a fresh food, without any chemicals, preservatives or irradiation, at home, all year long.

Our method ... simple and efficiant

Preparation of soil is the key of our success.

A mixture of soil and water gives an easy to handle bud that will keep weeks long and make several trays.

- 10 litres of soil with 2 or 3 litres of water - 3 gallons of soil and 2 to 3 pints of water

Spread between 6 mm and 12 mm (one quarter and half an inch) of soil uniformly in a tray is enough.
JFN gardener includes 6 shelves and 7 trays, two of them are to be used as alternating covers.

This mixture is excellent once it is spread out, eventhough it is saturated with water, there will be no pool on the surface. Young growths draw the nutritive elements during ten days.
More soil is unuseful.

After the harvest, the soil may be used as compost.

Sprinkle with a measuring cup the required quantity (230 ml, 8 oz) of wheat, buckwheat, etc., on damp soil in one tray. Softly drive the seeds in the surface on the soil with the hand.
Seeds may touch each other but will not overlap.
They should not be buried.

Seeds absorb water, germinate, take root in the soil much more rapidly than if they had been soaked and sprouted in a jar.
Roots are being protected by not unusefully handling germinated seeds.
For tiny seeds such as mustard and radish, the use of a small jar with medium holes is marvelous. Sprinkle 15-30 ml (one or two tablespoons) of radish or mustard on one tray.

Important: Cover with an upside-down tray for a period of three days so that sprouted seeds may grow into humidity and darkness, these two elements are helping the roots to grow into the soil. It is therefore unnecessary to water during that period of time.

Young growths raise the cover tray. It is time to take it away.
A fine white down may appear.
By removing the cover tray, the down will disappear within two days.
Four sunny days are enough to make chlorophyll photosynthesis happen.

Water once a day.
For wheat grass, pull up roots and water underneath, into the tray.
Every type of young growth should be cut down as close as possible to the ground.
They may be consumed in salads.
As juices, they may be combined to carrots, celeries or cucumbers.

Wheat grass

Using wheat grass juice as a food is a spectacular tonic and remedy. Of course, we all live upon laws of balance, healthy alimentation, physical exercise and rest. Wheat grass has been popularized by Ann Wigmore (ND) after she had a cancer of the colon. She recalled the elixir way back in her mind.

Some studies have proven that: "after two weeks of enzymes rich alimentation and wheat grass juice, blood is being detoxicated and immunity reinforced.
These changes lead to a better energy and improve the capacity of fighting and surmounting sickness."
(Szekely, Biogenetic life)

Wheat grass, as like other young growths, is easy to cultivate and agreable to use.
Wheat grass fills the body when there is nutritional deficiency, and it eliminates toxines that are laid in tissues, organs and blood.
Every human being depends upon billions of cells that contain an electric energy which must be reprovisioned with high quality nutriments.
Wheat grass is providing quality minerals, proteins and enzymes.

Wheat grass reinforces immunity which determines the capacity of the body to fight sickness.
Wheat grass increases healing creative forces since its juice strengthens immunity.

"Scientific researches on chlorophyll and wheat grass have been made since the fourties and all the reports confirm that wheat grass is a health cleanser, builder, healer, protector and regenerator. Few foods or remedies contain as many so active and living ingredients as wheat grass does." - (Szekely)

The experiment of germination is a trade world between plant and human kingdom.
Sprouting, as well as seeds, is old as the world.
It is an old medicine and also a new one.
As a matter of fact, californian studies show the importance of an increasing degree of popularity of sprouts consumption in North America.
More and more people eat them.