The reason for using escrow is to protect buyers and purchasers from time wasters and scammers that waste precious business time and cost farmers, especially hatcheries when they cancel orders or perform fraudulent commercial activities.
Category: General
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What is hatch to order?
Hatch to order is a simple principle whereby a hatchery only hatches out day old chicks when customers pay for an order. At GroSpace we run a decentralised farming system whereby our partner network of poultry farmers hatch day old chicks to order. You place an order and process a secure payment online. Our farmers are notified of the order and the money stays in escrow until the day old chicks order is collected by the courier and delivered to you.
What is escrow?
Crunchy recipe compliments of Jennifer-Lynn Claven my special mom and best friend ❤️❤️❤️
INGREDIENTS
- 2 kilograms self-raising flour
- 0.5 kilograms pure butter, firm
- 0.5 kilograms of sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 large duck eggs, beaten
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 6 cups buttermilk or Maas if you are from South Africa
- 1 kilogram Rolled oats
- Date extract 200 milliliter
- Almond 0.125 kilograms
- Dark Belgian Chocolate 50-80% 0.2 kilograms
- 0.1 kilograms Sunflower seeds
- 0.05 kilograms Linseed(flax)
- 0.05 kilograms Pumpkin seeds
- 0.2 kilograms Dates
DIRECTIONS
- Oven: 350 deg F or 180 deg C
- Oil 2 flat, large cookie tins.
- Use the coarse side of a grater, and in a large bowl grate the butter into the flour. Eat a few pieces of the butter, it is absolutely delicious.
- Then use your hands to rub the butter in until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the salt(2 tsp) and sugar(0.5kg).
- Add the vanilla(1 tbsp) to the beaten eggs(2), and stir into the flour mixture (just roughly).
- Add enough buttermilk to mix to the consistency of scone dough, i.e. soft and somewhat sticky, but not wet. It can be wet, just make sure to place in the oven for some extra time and catch the oily liquid that is excreted. You should need about 6 cups, but it could be more or less.
- Add your large rolled oats(1kg) along with the date extract(200ml), allow to sit for 10-15 minutes and go for a check on your garden.
- Top off with your almonds(125g), crush them or blend them. Remember to add water to rinse your blender and drink it. This is almond milk 🙂 enjoy
- Blend in some dark Belgian chocolate crumbs from offcuts
- Mix in your Sunflower seeds(100g) along with your linseed(50g) + 50g pumpkin seeds
- Add Dates(200g)
- Baking time depends on a few variables such as the amount that you place on your tray — generally about 45 mins – 60 minutes The rusks should be well-risen and golden-brown on top. Do peek, and don’t let it burn. Test with a skewer.
- Cool in tins, but they don’t have to be cold to proceed:
- Use a serrated knife (some people simply break up the soft rusks) and cut into shapes convenient for handling — about 2 inches in length and 1 inch in width. But you will never be able to cut these rusks neatly!
- They crumble a lot — don’t worry, it can’t be helped. Put out the crumbs in a container for garnish.
- Using the same tins, stack them very loosely and at an angle, one row supporting the next.
- Dry overnight in a cool oven of about 40-60 deg C for 3-4 hours, with the oven door wedged open a crack you can set the oven too 180 deg C. They must dry out completely.
- Next day make sure rusks are dry, cool well, and keep in airtight tins.
Omelette ala butternut
This is a great, simple omelette recipe for you to try at home 🙂
Ingredients:
3 large eggs
2 shallots or baby onions
1 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp dried oregano
1 medium butternut(pre-prepared)
1/8 cup barley(pre-prepared)
1/8 cup lentils of any colour(pre-prepared)
1 pinch of rock salt
Preparation:
1 – Slice the shallots/baby onions
2 – Braise the onions at medium heat for 2 minutes in frying pan with sunflower oil
3 – crack the eggs + oregano + parsley into a bowl and whisk
4 – pour into frying pan and cook for 2 minutes at medium heat
5 – toss frying pan contents
6 – heat barley and lentil broth (pre-prepared)
7 – heat butternut (pre-prepared)
8 – serve in a bowl
No spices required.
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Scrambled eggs and egg plant
1 amazing and simple recipe for Scrambled eggs and egg plant or brinjal.
Have you ever wondered how to prepare egg plant aka brinjal? This little recipe shows you how 🙂
1 full red onion 🧅
4 large eggs 🥚
1 clove of garlic 🧄
1 large brinjal
1 tea spoon dried oregano 🌿
1 tea spoon dried parsley 🌿
2 tea spoons of sunflower oil🌻
1 pinch of salt
1 dried shiitake mushroom 🍄
Preparation:
1: slice onions, cut off base first then top
2: sauté red onion slices in oil
3: slice and quarter brinjal, remove seeds, rinse seeds, dry seeds, plant into GroBox
4: add brinjal quarters to sautéd onions
5: close with lid and cook on medium for 4-5 minutes making sure to braise the brinjal and turn where needed to prevent burning
6: scramble eggs with salt, oregano, parsley and diced garlic. (Pro tip: crush garlic clove with handle of knife before dicing)
7: add scrambled eggs and close lid for 4 minutes on medium
8: remove lid and serve with a sprinkle of shiitake mushroom
No spices needed.
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7 Health Benefits of Ginger
Ginger has many benefits. You can make ginger beer, ginger tea or even biscuits.
Ginger is small and it packs a punch! It is a super food. Anti-inflammation is not the only property of this amazing super food. Many studies show that it can combat nausea, cancer, heart-disease, diabetes and many other ailments.
These ailments are eased by a few interesting chemicals that are found naturally in this rhizome. Gingerol, shogaol and paradol are key components in the ginger root.
Let’s take a look at a few of the amazing health benefits of this incredible food.
These are the health properties that we will read through:
- How to fix inflammation – This rhizome has Anti-inflammatory properties
- Gingerol for heart disease – drink ginger tea
- How to naturally treat diabetes – Gingerol
- Cancer pain fix – Ginger
- How to get rid of nausea – Gingerol
- Natural menstruation pain relief – Ginger
- How to naturally ease pain – eat a super food with gingerol
1. How to fix inflammation – make ginger tea
Studies show that the compound called gingerol, active in ginger, is a potent anti-inflammatory. When you eat this super food, picture eating medicine from 50,000 years ago you should think about how modern medicine came about and realise that gingerol is the basis of many medicines for inflammation and a blood density control. This rhizome has an active component called gingerol which actively eases inflammation through the muscles and the tissues allowing it to be a great choice when you want to ease inflammation and pain.
2. How to naturally ease pain – eat ginger cookies
When you consume ginger, you naturally consume gingerol which decreases inflammation of the tissues in the body and in turn relieves pain in the relevant areas. Due to its pain relieving properties and its anti-inflammatory property ginger also eases nausea.
3. How to get rid of nausea – make some ginger tea
If you are like me and many other people you will have wondered how to get rid of nausea when you’re feeling sick on the couch or in bed – just wishing the days go by so that you can feel a bit better. There are two phytochemicals called gingerol and shogaol. These chemicals latch on to receptors in the Gastrointestinal tract and this helps with digestion, and reduces feelings of nausea. Ginger is a wonderful rhizome which has active anti-inflammatory properties and pain relieving properties which helps to alleviate blood pressure and intern alleviates nausea.
4. Alleviate heart disease
As I’m sure you’ve noticed Ginger has amazing active properties for alleviating inflammation, pain, nausea and because of the fact that it thins out the blood, it is actually an excellent source of natural medicine to curb heart disease and diabetes.
5. How to naturally treat diabetes
So far we looked at the benefits of ginger as a super food. We all know the next one is to look at the aspects of diabetes. Gingerol cleans the blood which supports the kidney function in the human body and as a result it helps people with managing insulin spikes. The compounds in this rhizome inhibit certain enzymes, this helps improve metabolism and facilitates insulin release. Some studies show that this rhizome also helps with pain associated with cancer.
6. Cancer pain relief
As we have already seen this super food has pain relieving properties for the entire body. This pain relieving property will in turn help alleviate pain for cancer patients. One study found that this super food extract helped slow ovarian cancer, inhibiting cell growth, leading researchers to believe that this super food has anti-cancer properties. Studies have shown that shogaols, another active compound in this rhizome, may block lung and breast cancer development. One study found that Shogaol is 10k times more effective than chemo for breast cancer. Period pain can sometimes feel like cancer – Drink a glass of ginger beer. Take advantage of the many ginger benefits.
7. Natural menstruation pain relief – Drink Ginger Beer
Menstruation pain is a big issue for women – it’s uncomfortable, painful, annoying and downright crazy that women go through these pains. If you are feeling menstruation pain and you are looking for a natural remedy you don’t need to look any further because Ginger has an active component called gingerol and this is an incredible remedy to alleviate pain in general throughout the body. This includes menstruation pains. Some studies claim that it has a similar effect to ibuprofen or even paracetamol.
Why you should be considering eating ginger on the regular:
- Anti-inflammatory properties
- Eases pain
- Helps alleviate nausea
- Combats ailments associated with heart disease
- Cleans the blood and supports the kidneys when you suffer from diabetes
- Helps manage pain associated with cancer
- Is similar to ibuprofen and it assists with menstruation pain relief