A 10 DAY PERFORMANCE in the same tray
The Three Seeds
Wheat, Barley & Rye
& Grass Talk
The Three Seeds
In the following 10 days three different kinds of grass seeds will grow in the same tray. They all have different flavors when they are juiced, also significant differences in color shades, grass length and width, when growing and transforming into their own specific grass identity. It will be easy to see how different green grass can be when they are in the same tray, growing together. As soon as the root mat is developed and can be lifted, a photographic close up underneath will be taken day by day too. Exciting times ahead of us!...
Please take your seats. The seeds growing performance will soon begin.
Between the pieces, when we have enjoyed The Three Seeds performance above and underneath the soil, I will take the opportunity to speak whilst they prep for the next day. Lets look and speak about what we find underneath the statement 'its healthy to drink wheatgrass juice'. In general most people find it a little bit of a 'weirdo thing to do', grow grass indoors and Oh My! then also juice it and drink it. My intention is to convert it's weirdness into logic. A logic based on my own understanding of photosynthesis (from an earlier education included plant anatomy) and human life/evolution (how I view life today). I will start from the beginning of the photosynthesis, view it as objectively as I can, and break it down to why a pigment in a plant has maximum benefits for a human physical body. We will see where we will end up! And what each day will contain. Day by day. Bit by bit.
Now, please silence! The Three Seeds are ready. It's showtime! Welcome Chlorophyll People, Grass People, ladies & gentlemen, and others of all kinds.
Showtime! 10 days in the same tray
evening prep
May 27th. Rinsed well. Soaking over night. The temp is 60-70F/15-20C. The amount of time soaking is different for different seeds. The soaking time for Rye, Wheat and Barley are the same, 8-12 hrs. 2-3 parts water to 1 part seed as a general key. Usually I use larger jars, but today when soaking they were all occupied. One can never have to many jars.
day 1, may 28
morning
Here in lovely, cold and rainy England, 1-2 times rinsing/day is enough. Spain, Costa Rica and California people/friends might have to rinse 3 times/day. Enjoy! But you got the SUN. It's fair. Barley (t.l), Rye (mdl), Wheat (t.r)
evening
Rinsed. Drained. Continuation of germination.
Photosynthesis, the big picture: Collaboration between a star and a planet
The Sun and the Earth are in collaboration when transforming/converting the suns electromagnetic energy into chemical energy. The meeting place where this transformation takes place are, as we know, the plants here on Earth. Humans have a dual function in this project. Our role is to benefit from the production but also provide building material.
When we ship things we usually wrap them up before shipment. So does the sun. The electromagnetic energy from the sun is shaped in 2 forms. Waves and particles. One aspect of the energy gets the function to become shipment material like a box. How clever. The waves just get wrapped up with the particles. The 'boxes' are called Photons. When the packing is done, it is sent down to Earth (super fast delivery). Material from the Earth is provided without any shipment needed; water, soil with elements from underneath each plant and humans breathing out carbon dioxide. We now can see the main parts in this project; a team; a Star, a Planet, Plants and Humans, a transport system and building material. The process of production can now begin.
day 2, may 29
morning
Rinsed. Drained. Germination process is active. Barley (t.l), Rye (mdl) and Wheat (t.r) in the big pic above.
evening
Rinsed. Drained. Back into the tray. Barley (t.l), Wheat (mdl) and Rye (t.r) in the small pic to the left.
Photosynthesis 1:2 - Understanding a process
Before we get into any detail of the production, lets look at the Photosynthesis itself as a process. A production process. One can see photosynthesis has three inputs (resources) and two outputs (products). Inputs in form of 1. Electromagnetic energy from the sun, 2. Carbon dioxide and 3. Water. The two outputs are 1. Carbohydrates (chemical energy stored as glucose) and 2. Oxygen. This shape shift of energy from one form to another, are made via actions with different kinds of values, step by step, leading to the desired outcome, the products. For a company on the planet Earth, the outcomes purpose is to satisfy a specific group with specific needs. The outcome itself transforms needs to satisfaction. (e.g a happy customer of some sort). We got inputs and outputs in our process. Good beginning, but we need more information to know if Chlorophyll in form of wheatgrass juice is 'healthy' to drink for humans.
Looking at the Photosynthesis as a process, using quality management as model and tool, one has some basic questions at hand to make photosynthesis more clear. Questions one can ask are: WHAT IS THE -Purpose, -Scope, -Inputs, -Outputs, and Controls, -Resources? with the photosynthesis. As my own mind is process oriented and used to this model; there might be other tools better than this, but deep water will be near if using tools I don't know how they work. So, let start here tomorrow, viewing photosynthesis as a process. Ask the first and basic questions one does when a process is identified and implementing a quality system in a company.
day 3, may 30
morning
In soil. Barley (t.l), Rye (mdl) and Wheat (t.r). Rinsed. Drained. Covered with plastic film.
evening
Same as daytime. Keeping the tray covered.
Photosynthesis 2:2 - Process: 'Light is putting together'
First thing one can see is that this is a process one would label as a core or key process. A major process with groups of other processes connected to it. It's a process converting 'invisible' energy to something visible (matter). It sustains life on the planet Earth. I have never labelled a process as magical, but this one deserves some magic. We can also see it is a clear production process as the name Photosynthesis meaning reveals 'Light is putting together'... Now lets look at the answers.
Title?
Light is putting together.
(Definition of Photosyntheses: Light is putting together. From Greek words: phōs, "light", and σύνθεσις, synthesis, "putting together")
What is/are the purpose/s?
The purpose is to transform something inorganic (electromagnetic energy) to organic (chemical energy).
This is a first level answer as it can be answered from many levels, depending on ones perspective (human evolution, life on earth, food chains). For now an answer in the frame of processes. An objective and overall view.
What are the inputs?
Electromagnetic energy. Carbon dioxide. Water. Soil and elements.
What is the scope?
The beginning is electromagnetic energy and the end are green leaves.
What are the outputs?
Chemical energy, stored in the plants in form of sugar (glucose) and oxygen. Oxygen is seen as a waste product.
What are the controls?
A common definition of quality is “Delighting the customer by fully meeting their needs and expectations”. Who is the customer? We need to define that first.
What are the resources?
The sun, our earth, water, carbon dioxide, soil and elements.
We have defined the process and have some comprehensive answers. Now we need to overview the consumers/customers. We have to dwell a bit in the food chains and the ecosystem. It might be like going back to 5th grade in school. But in the basics, we might find some answers as to why it is logical to drink Chlorophyll. Human evolution is another aspect one must add other than food chains, but we will remain in the chains for now.
day 4, may 31
morning
It's growing! Wheat (t.l), Rye (mdl) and Barley (t.r). Wheat is darker green in colour than Barley. Growing stronger too. Rye is more redish in color.
evening
Removed plastic over night. The root mat will be lifted tomorrow for the first time. Not so stable this morning.
Food chains 1:3 - Lets eat some autotrophs!
If we jump to the nutritional chain, the food chain, we learn that we can follow the pathway of energy/nutrition in an ecosystem via primarily consumers, secondary consumers and top consumers. Plants are described as producers . The producers are called autotrophs, meaning they don't need to eat others to get nutrition as they get it directly via the photosynthesis ("self-feeding", from the Greek autos "self" and trophe "nourishing"). They are seen as the first level in any food chains. Nutrition directly from the source, no levels up in the chain. Number one. Humans and animals can't convert electro magnetic energy directly; 'drinking nor eating' the sun like plants do. Maybe we can, but don't yet know it...As no one have told us. One has to experiment, if one want to know if it works. But we leave that subject for now. Next will be who resides in the different groups of consumers.
day 5, june 1
morning
Grass! Wheat (t.l), Rye (mdl) and Barley (t.r).
evening
Just some water. I can't find the root mat pic! Enjoy a definition of the food chain instead. Root mat tomorrow!
Food chains 2:3 - Whom eats Whom?
Humans are described as omnivores (secondary consumers) in this chain, we eat both plants and animals. We have the carnivores (top consumers); animals that eat other animals. And then we also got the herbivores (primarily consumers) that eat the producers (the plants) only. If one looks at any images about the food chain, it's always animals that eat plants. Humans eat the animals. That is our role in illustrations about whom eats whom. I have not seen any image where humans are equal to e.g a deer and eats plants. It is said according to reports humans eats 80% plants
(serial, fruits, veggies) and 20 % meat from animals. Whatever the numbers are, in general we eat less meat than plants. Even if not often ILLUSTRATED (never seen one) in food chains, all nutrition can be gained from plants. We don't NEED meat to survive. As we as humans can digest both meat and plants. We have a CHOICE with our dual digestive system. Tomorrow I will answer the question if I think I'm a rabbit?
day 6, june 2
morning
Grass! Wheat (t.l), Rye (mdl) and Barley (t.r).
evening
Wheat (t.l) is the tallest grass, dark green. Barley (t.r) is lighter in shade, shorter. Rye (mdl) redish.
Food chains 3:3 - Do I think I'm a rabbit?
This is the food chain in the big picture. The main groups and levels. Our minds are programmed to believe that BEING LAST IN THE CHAIN MEANS BEING ON TOP! This image is in our backbones as a belief about what to eat, and whom eats whom. We eat others, we don't get eaten. We eat the sun energy transferred in a system of different physical bodies instead of directly from source without transfer. We are on top of the food chain?!
I would like, as with many things: shift /convert the food chain, up side down. Put the rabbits first, on top, and humans on the bottom. As we eat second hand and rabbits eat first hand. Rabbits on top. Humans at rock bottom. This image would bring another view to values, attitude and eating patterns into our minds. A new programming. Being last, does not mean being first, or on top, anywhere else. Only in food intake. Second hand usually means the peak of the quality already have been used.
We eat others, we don't get eaten = Power. We are omnivores, as a fact, but WE MUST EAT MEAT too. Says the chain. Otherwise, we are rabbits according our fellow meat eating humans. 'Rabbit food' is efficient and directly from the source. Why eat second hand? Eat efficiently like the rabbits, does not mean you become one.
day 7, june 3
Plant blood & Human blood - anything in common?
This is a key factor, the similarity between plant blood (chlorophyll) and human blood (hemaglobin) to why it is 'healthy' to consume chlorophyll. Without getting deep in chemistry, I will be lost, here is one image. The difference is, in chlorophyll it is a Magnesium (Mg) atom in the middle and in hemoglobin it is an Iron (Fe) atom. Otherwise very very similar! There will be posts about it later. For now the image.
day 8, june 4
Drinking the periodic table!
The periodic table contains 118 known elements. 98 of them exists in nature in natural form. The rest are produced by man. Wheat is a well-tested food source; after all it has been around since the beginning of civilisation and we are still around on the planet. Maybe time has come to use wheat in the form of juice instead of bread; use the energy directly in it's essence form?
Wheat and Humanity is walking hand in hand. All changes brings with many kinds of reactions. Drinking wheat grass is just a new concept for many and reactions and comments are natural. Just try to change a routine in a company. People do not want to change. You hit a wall of resistance. Information, new way of looking at life and 'things' and nutrition facts are the keys. Drinking wheat grass juice, instead of eating wheat in solid form, are just a more efficient way of intake of nutrition. Maximum efficiency. One step closer to the source in the (light)production chain. Improvement. Wheat and humanity still walk hand in hand, the path is just taking another turn.
Wheat grass contains over 100 elements. 92 of them are absorbed when growing seeds in soil. A shot of wheat grass is like drinking the entire periodic table!
day 9, june 5
visible effects of consuming chlorophyll
When nutrition talk has little or no effect to people who cling to the 'rabbit' thing. My answer is simply this: The skin texture becomes smooth like a peach. No wrinkles. No grey hair. The shot of wheat grass is then consumed within 3 secs! More about nutrition in other posts.
day 10, june 6
"And the fat lady sings..."
We will continue the grass talk in another tray!
pot barley
