Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

According to my information, stevia is the main sweetener in China, but in
the U.S. it's against the law to sell it as sweetener. You have to sell it
as "dietary supplement" etc. I use it in green tea every day. Not
surprising doctors in some places haven't heard of it. They're ignorant.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 2/27/2007 at 6:08 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>When the air temperature is 90 and over no fruit will set.  When the
>temperature is below that the fruit will set.  You might check TX A & M
>University website or USDA, etc for more info.
>
>  I believe that stevia is a crop that most small farmers can grow and
>will be very profitable.  If you want more info, email me or I can post it
>here on the listserve.  Jeff Goettemoeller  is the expert.  I just learned
>he is now in the business.  www.prairieoakspublishing.com  has info on it.
> Diabetics can use it for sweeting,even for cooking.  No calories so use
>to loose weight.  Makes a good house plant.  To sweeten your coffee, just
>drop in a leaf.  The powder is 300 times sweeter than sugar.
>
>  A couple years ago I emailed all the diabetic doctors and hospital units
>in Lubbock.  Not one had ever heard of stevia.  It is a plant from
>Uruguay.  Indians there have sweetened their Máte with it for centuries.
>
>  Ken Hargesheimer
>