permaculture

[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

This thread led to me buying a pot of hibiscus jelly that caught my eye 
in a specialty food store today. Think i'll pluck me a few flowers off 
my indoor hibiscus plant and try it in my eggs tomorrow :-)
On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 04:24 PM, esac@laneta.apc.org wrote:

> In Mexico some of use the left over stuff for mixing with eggs and 
> eating as
> scrambled eggs... Dry some people imagine it looks and tastes like 
> stringy
> beef. I think that's stretching it - although it tastes fine and adds 
> texture.
> Hard to imagine processing lots of it, though.
>
> george
>
>
>
> Mensaje citado por Robyn Francis <erda@nor.com.au>:
>
> > Once the juice and with it colour and flavour are gone the residue is 
> > best
> > used for compost, worm food or animal feed.
> >
> > Robyn
> >
> > On 3/8/04 2:46 PM, "Stephanie Gerson" <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > to add another question into the mix,
> > >
> > > does anyone know of a use for hibiscus flower petals? my cousin 
> > > started
> > > a juice company, they make agua de jamaica (hibiscus flower juice), 
> > > and
> > > have the petals leftover:
> > >
> > > "I am ready to do my next bottling run and I thought about you. Do 
> > > you
> > > know who might want to use my discarded hibiscus flower petals. This 
> > > is
> > > the stuff that is left over after we make the agua de jamaica and we 
> > > just
> > > throw it out. I thought there may be some kind of organic use for 
> > > them
> > > but I have no idea who to contact. I would be giving it away for 
> > > free."
> > >
> > > any ideas (besides straight up composting)?  perhaps tea, dye, 
> > > essential
> > > oils, substrate for mushroom farming...?
> > >
> > > would Love any suggestions
> > >
> > > peace
> > > *Stephanie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > +++++++++++++++
> > > Stephanie Gerson
> > > sgerson@stanfordalumni.org
> > > (c) 415.871.5683
> > >
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