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Updates from Mittens
Chiane and Mittens the cat
Chiane and Mittens the cat
🕺 Updates from Mittens
🐈📸 Chiane and Mittens getting ready for work at TopTropicals / PeopleCats.Garden
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- 🐾 Hi everyone, it’s me - Mittens! I’m all grown up now (well, almost). I still go to work with my Mom Chiane - every single day. I help pack your plants, inspect boxes, and sometimes take important naps on the shipping table. I haven’t missed a single day of work!
- 🐾 Everyone says I’m part of the team now, not just a trainee. I think they’re right - after all, who else leaves magic paw prints on your boxes?
- 🐾 If you stop by our Garden Center in Ft Myers, come say hi to me, King, Snitch, and my other friends. We’re the #PeopleCats, and we work hard to make sure your plants travel happy and safe to their new homes!
🐈📸 Chiane and Mittens getting ready for work at TopTropicals / PeopleCats.Garden
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The secret Brain Food growing in my backyard (and it tastes like green peas!)
Tropical Asparagus (Sauropus androgynus)
🏆 The secret Brain Food growing in my backyard (and it tastes like green peas!)
🛒 Add Katuk Superfood to your Food Forest
Lean more:
🍴 Katuk egg stir-fry: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
✔️ Discover the health benefits of Katuk: a Superfood for your mind and body
📚 Tropical Asparagus, Katuk: Grow your own food
📱 How to cook with Katuk
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- 🌿 Katuk, or Tropical Asparagus (Sauropus androgynus), is one of the most underrated edible plants you can grow. This leafy tropical shrub is a superfood in disguise. It grows fast, looks lush, and its tender young shoots taste just like green peas.
- 🌿 Native to Southeast Asia, Katuk is a kitchen staple in places like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand. The leaves and shoots are used in soups, stews, and stir-fries with egg or seafood. It’s not only delicious but also incredibly nutritious - rich in nutrients linked to improved memory and reduced cognitive aging: folate, lutein, and especially vitamin K, which is rare in plants.
- 🌿 Katuk thrives in sun or partial shade, needs little care, and grows into a dense, bushy plant that gives you edible greens all year round. If you want something that feeds both your garden and your health, this one’s a winner!
🛒 Add Katuk Superfood to your Food Forest
Lean more:
🍴 Katuk egg stir-fry: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
✔️ Discover the health benefits of Katuk: a Superfood for your mind and body
📚 Tropical Asparagus, Katuk: Grow your own food
📱 How to cook with Katuk
#Food_Forest #Remedies #Discover
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Do you have Shampoo Ginger in your garden?
Zingiber Zerumbet, Shampoo Ginger, Pine Cone Ginger
💄 Do you have Shampoo Ginger in your garden?
💄Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), is called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. If you squeeze these bright red cones, a fragrant, milky liquid seeps out - traditionally used in Asia and Hawaii as a natural shampoo. Even today, you’ll find it in commercial shampoos.
🛒 Grow your own Natural Shampoo Ginger
📚 Learn more:
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💄Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), is called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. If you squeeze these bright red cones, a fragrant, milky liquid seeps out - traditionally used in Asia and Hawaii as a natural shampoo. Even today, you’ll find it in commercial shampoos.
🛒 Grow your own Natural Shampoo Ginger
📚 Learn more:
- 🟡 Free natural shampoo: squeeze it and see what comes out!
- 🟡 What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?
- 🟡5 most spectacular Ginger species
#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden #Remedies #Fun_Facts
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You wont believe who was trapped inside!
Cash-n-Bob Cat Circus at TopTropicals
🐱 You won't believe who was trapped inside!
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire!" - Charles Bukowski
🐈📸 Cash-n-Bob Cat Circus at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire!" - Charles Bukowski
🐈📸 Cash-n-Bob Cat Circus at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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Cashews: more magnesium than almonds!
Cashew Nuts - Anacardium occidentale
Cashews: more magnesium than almonds!
🏆 More magnesium-rich fruit:
Avocado
Avocados are famous for their healthy fats, but they’re also surprisingly high in magnesium - about 58 mg per medium fruit. That’s one of the highest amounts among fruits. Their creamy texture and fiber content make them especially gentle on the stomach, helping digestion and easing constipation. Regularly adding avocado to meals can support gut health, muscle function, and overall mineral balance in a naturally delicious way.
🍍 Pineapple
Best known for its enzyme bromelain, pineapple also provides a helpful 20 mg of magnesium per cup. While not the top source, it offers a rare combination of fiber, enzymes, and minerals that benefit the digestive system. Bromelain helps reduce inflammation in the gut, and magnesium keeps digestive muscles relaxed. Together, they make pineapple a light, refreshing choice for better digestion and a balanced system.
✅ How to get more magnesium:
🛒 Explore your future food forest: fruit and edibles
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- 🌰 Cashews might be the real nutty winner when it comes to magnesium. One ounce provides about 83 mg, or roughly 20% of your daily need, slightly topping almonds at 76 mg, according to Verywell Health.
- 🌰 Magnesium plays a key role in your body’s daily operations - it helps your heart, muscles, and bones function properly, keeps blood pressure steady, and supports your energy and metabolism. Yet many people still fall short of getting enough.
- 🌰 Along with magnesium, cashews are packed with protein, healthy fats, copper, zinc, and iron - all nutrients your body depends on.
🏆 More magnesium-rich fruit:
Avocado
Avocados are famous for their healthy fats, but they’re also surprisingly high in magnesium - about 58 mg per medium fruit. That’s one of the highest amounts among fruits. Their creamy texture and fiber content make them especially gentle on the stomach, helping digestion and easing constipation. Regularly adding avocado to meals can support gut health, muscle function, and overall mineral balance in a naturally delicious way.
🍍 Pineapple
Best known for its enzyme bromelain, pineapple also provides a helpful 20 mg of magnesium per cup. While not the top source, it offers a rare combination of fiber, enzymes, and minerals that benefit the digestive system. Bromelain helps reduce inflammation in the gut, and magnesium keeps digestive muscles relaxed. Together, they make pineapple a light, refreshing choice for better digestion and a balanced system.
✅ How to get more magnesium:
- • Eat a mix of magnesium-rich foods every day - your body only absorbs about half of what you consume.
- • Try pairing magnesium-rich sources. Add Cashews, Avocados, Bananas, Pineapple, or Spinach to your meals and snacks.
- • Remember, caffeine, age, and certain medications can reduce absorption, so balance your diet and check with your doctor if needed.
- • A handful of cashews can go a long way - for your heart, your energy, and your bones.
🛒 Explore your future food forest: fruit and edibles
📚 Learn more:
- ▫️Grow your own brain food: avocado and cacao
- ▫️Plant a fruit tree - and breathe easier: fruit might be the surprising key to healthier lungs
- ▫️Tropical fruit health benefits guide - what fruit and edibles can help with health issues and vitamin deficiencies, Part 1 and Part 2.
- ▫️Five best fruit trees to plant in Summer
- ▫️10 best fruit trees to grow in Florida and Southern landscapes
- ▫️Top 10 fruiting plants you'll ever need for your health benefits
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