Learn more about the Prickly PearYou may be across town or on the other side of the World. But you can still come have fun with us at Project Angel Faces' Garden Club "as we learn how to clean, eat, juice, and store cactus fruit!"
Guest Post by Rhonda Killough, Founder of Project Angel Faces
Come have fun with us at Garden Club as we learn how to clean, eat, juice, and store cactus fruit!
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At Garden Club, on September 19th, we'll be peeling, seeding, juicing, and freezing cactus fruit with apples and grapes to make popsicles, and drinking juice.
Prickly Pears grow wild in abundance on cactus throughout our valley. They have loads of good nutrition that can help to prevent conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, and migraines. They also strengthen teeth, bones, our immune system, our nerve, enzyme, and amino acid functions, and help keep our fluid and electrolytes balanced. They taste like the color red, tart, mildly sweet, and with the texture similar to a pear.
Garden Club is such a wonderful program because the children get so excited to learn about new foods, they can hardly contain themselves. The activities
we do are empowering to these kids; working with the foods, trusting the children to get their hands on the process of learning.
We get to practice learning so
much more than just about working with food: patience, listening, sharing, respect for peers and teachers, non-violent communication, and sometimes cultural
exploration!
It creates a lasting impression on them, and that is empowering for me as a community servant. My favorite part is how much they love learning
how these foods we introduce build and grow their bodies, and make them stronger. They love being empowered by knowledge, and having so much fun in
the process!
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 from 4:15pm - 5:45pm Project Angel Faces will teach the cleaning, paring, juicing, and learning the nutrition of a locally abundant fruit, Prickly Pear!
My Oma, were she alive today, would be 93. She was born nine months and some odd days after Armistice Day or what we know as Veterans Day. When Mom told me that she had been Baptized in the historical Frankfurt Cathedral; I just had to know more.
"Treaty To Be Ratified By Wilson" shouted the Oakland Tribune headline
on September 7, 1919. Approximately six weeks after her birth, Oma did
some shouting of her own.
Oma was Baptized in the Frankfurter Dom. The official name is Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus; Emperor Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew. "St. Bartholomew's is the main church of Frankfurt and was constructed in
the 14th and 15th centuries on the foundation of an earlier church from
the Merovingian time."
Much ado is recently made by conspiracy theorists about Satanic and political bloodlines and popular focus is also garnered by Dan Brown's books.
The Main Divisions of the Frankish Kingdoms under the Merovingian Kings.
But "Merovingian society...was clearly a Christian society..., and one cannot ignore the vital and central part that was played by Christianity in its cultural life (Hen). Dark Age Christianity echoes still barbaric bloodshed in stories of quests for World Domination.
Frankfurt Dom Querschiff
Oma, as Family Lore goes, "...hat die ganzen Kirche ausgebrult." In English, and not a literal translation, screamed her head off [at her Baptism.] Did Oma, as a new Soul, know what type of ground she was being Baptized upon? Or was it more the 'in the air buzz' of The Red Scare and Hitler's eminent rise to power?
The Germany my Family was raised in, is one I can scarcely imagine. Harder still is extracting bits and pieces of Oral Family History. Scars of suppression, depression, bombings and annihilation show not only in the German landscape. These scars, they show in my Family's soul.
Join the Host of Angels~ Get Involved! We Cultivate Hope for the Future.
"...a wonderful opportunity to build a new garden in support of one of our most poverty stricken neighborhoods."
Also: Carpentry teams and leaders to: construct tool shed repair vegetable stand supply and complete irrigation Labor volunteers to: plant new plants per location sort and store seeds (more)
Thank You! I will give half of your Donation to Project Angel Faces. (After your donation you will be directed to their website)
Prickly Pears grow wild in abundance on cactus throughout our valley. They have loads of good nutrition that can help to prevent conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety, and migraines. They also strengthen teeth, bones, our immune system, our nerve, enzyme, and amino acid functions, and help keep our fluid and electrolytes balanced. They taste like the color red, tart, mildly sweet, and with the texture similar to a pear.
Garden Club is such a wonderful program because the children get so excited to learn about new foods, they can hardly contain themselves. The activities
we do are empowering to these kids; working with the foods, trusting the children to get their hands on the process of learning.
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