{"id":61010,"date":"2021-12-19T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61010"},"modified":"2021-12-19T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T12:26:08","slug":"ginger-in-a-realfood-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61010","title":{"rendered":"Ginger in a RealFood Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ginger has thrived at our place since I learned to think about what it gives and what it needs in terms of its connections to the other plants around it, to me as the ginger-grower, and to me and my family as the ginger-users. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Ginger\u00a0(Zingiber officinale)<\/i>\u00a0is a super useful plant. But no matter how\u00a0potentially\u00a0<\/i>useful a plant is, its usefulness is only\u00a0actualized\u00a0<\/i>when you learn to use it consistently. The more consistently you use a plant the more useful it becomes, and the more you come to rely on it, the better care you take of it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been keen on ginger\u00a0<\/i>for a long time, but I\u2019ve neglected and lost a lot of ginger plants because I kept putting them in places where I\u2019d forget to take care of them and use them.<\/p>\n

Ginger connections\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plants that thrive in what I call \u201ca RealFood garden\u201d* are plants with\u00a0connections<\/i>i<\/sup><\/a>. The more the better. Here are some of the connections I think about when I think of ginger.<\/p>\n

*Can be linked to the other post I\u2019ve sent with this one, \u201cConnections in a RealFood Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 to the kitchen<\/strong><\/p>\n

I use ginger in salad dressings and its also a key ingredient in my\u00a0sauerkraut<\/u><\/a>. I\u2019m not very good (yet) at using it in other culinary ways, but there\u2019s always hope. (If you have easy tips for adding fresh ginger to meals that don\u2019t involve taking classes in Asian Cookery, please share in the comments down the bottom!)<\/p>\n

We make ginger tea regularly. Cooled ginger tea quenches thirst much more effectively than water.<\/p>\n

And a cup of ginger tea before a meal helps digestion and may provide a\u00a0raft of other benefits<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from reduced inflammation to helping keep cholesterol levels balanced. Which leads us to the next kind of connection.<\/p>\n

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Ginger in a RealFood Garden Ginger has thrived at our place since I learned to think about what it gives and what it needs in terms of its connections to the other plants around it, to me as the ginger-grower, and to me and my family as the ginger-users. \u00a0 Ginger\u00a0(Zingiber officinale)\u00a0is a super useful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30145,32316,22072,9358],"class_list":["post-61010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-garden","tag-ginger","tag-kate-martignier","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61011,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010\/revisions\/61011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}