{"id":1917,"date":"2017-09-17T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/?page_id=1917"},"modified":"2018-10-26T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T04:02:43","slug":"september-17-2017-dr-cowans-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/september-17-2017-dr-cowans-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"September 17, 2017: Dr. Cowan\u2019s Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We toured\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drcowansgarden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Dr Cowan\u2019s Garden in Napa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0where some of his nutritionally powerful and playful vegetable powders are grown.<\/p>\n<p>The garden has 38 beds on about an acre of land. It functions as an experimental garden (how does the vegetable grow and does it powder well?), a production garden and a kitchen garden. Tom Cowan once counted 59 different edible plants growing in the garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1926\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/09\/2017-09-DrCowanTour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashitaba is the signature plant (Tom is holding a leaf in the bottom middle photo). It has twice as many nutrients as greens such as kale; it grows a new leaf when a leaf is removed; it produces a yellow sap with a chemical, chalcones, a potent natural chemotherapy drug.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1923\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1923\" class=\"wp-image-1923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/09\/2017-09-DrCowanPlants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"426\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise from top left: ashwaganda, pumpkins, shiso, malabar spinach, indigo apple tomato, glass gem corn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gynura procumbens, also called longevity spinach or Okinawan spinach, has a chemical similar to Metformin for diabetes. Many varieties of pumpkin are grown, such as Hopi pumpkins, Japanese heirloom pumpkins, Long Island cheese pumpkins, banana pumpkins and a New Zealand pumpkin. \u00a0Indigo apple tomatoes taste a bit like bacon and have twice the amount of lycopene as other tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1930\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/09\/2017-09-DrCowanGroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1927\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/09\/2017-09-DrCowanFood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The potluck made extra nutrient-dense with lots of powders. Delicious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">~ Karen Hamilton-Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We toured\u00a0Dr Cowan\u2019s Garden in Napa\u00a0where some of his nutritionally powerful and playful vegetable powders are grown. The garden has 38 beds on about an acre of land. It functions as an experimental garden (how does the vegetable grow and does it powder well?), a production garden and a kitchen garden. Tom Cowan once counted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/september-17-2017-dr-cowans-garden\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1917","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}