Sprouting and eating seeds, legumes and raw nuts offers many advantages:

• A contact with the awakening life, growing and transforming in front of you, all year long.
• The multiplication of the nutriments: enzymes, chlorophyll, vitamins, and proteins.
• An economical way of eating well
  (ex: 20 cents for one litre of alfalfa).
• The fresh harvest of first quality organic aliments
  (no chemicals, pesticides or preservatives).
• An easy to cultivate inside garden with infinite possibilities,
  either you live in the city or
  in the country.
• An abundant and early harvest in a minimum of space.
• Wonder, interest and participation of children; a family educational activity.

The Benefits of Sprouting
Sprouting is a world of awakening. The seed meets the water.

There are five different possible ways to approach it. But first it is important to know how beneficial it is to us when it becomes a part of our food.

Life is generated by life; every material is energy, vibration and electricity. Consequently, when the body is fed with a living food, the energy is transfered, rising up the global vibration, which guarantees a good health, contrarily to the low vibrations of sickness.

Immune System
It is well known that the immune system is the great guardian of our body, therefore some nutriments are capital to maintain in good health. The consumption of enzymes rich foods will allow the body to rest by generating nutrients that will be used as fuel and restorer of the body.

All the cells, tissues, and organs are built with what we eat. A strong immune system is important. Sprouting increases tenfold the potential of nutrition: proteins, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals.

Five Different Types of Sprouting
Let us see five different types of sprouting: leafed seeds, legumes, raw nuts, grains, and young growths.

Leafed Seeds
Small seeds such as alfalfa, clover, fenugreek, garlic, mustard and radish, after soaking for 5 hours and sprouting for 5 days should normally get two inches long including the leaves. Activate the chlorophyll by placing the jar to the sun the last day.

Legumes
Sprouting legumes such as azuki, chick peas, green peas, lentils, lima, mung, navy, and pinto beans will encourage the birth of the nutrients and enzymes power, and will transform it into a predigested aliment. This makes them easier to assimilate and it requires less effort to the organism. Some of them may be eaten raw whereas others need less cooking. The soaking time varies from 8 to 12 hours and sprouting needs between 12 hours and 3 days to be ready.

Nuts
All they need is soaking for 12 hours and they are ready to eat. The sprout has no significant length. Keep in water in refrigerator for one week, rinsing every day. Try nut milks is a must (almond, pine nut, sunflower).

Dehydrate the sprouted nutsto get a delicius raw snack (almond, hazel nut, pecan, brazil nut).

Grains
Sprouted grains such as amaranth, barley, buckwheat, corn, millet, oats, quinoa, rye, spelt, teff, tritical and wheat, can be pureed and dehydrated into patties. You can also make a milk out of them.

Young Growths
Young growths require a different approach. They sprout on soil. One cup of grains spread on one liter of soil will make a real garden. Sunflower is considered like a wholesome aliment that provides vitamin D, and contains abundantly chlorophyll and the whole range of amino acids. Buckwheat contains plenty of lecithin and is an excellent liver and artery cleaner. As it is rich in chlorophyll and vitamin B, it feeds the brain.

You can consume young growths in salads and in green juices. Combined with cucumber and celery juice, they make good breakfast.

Wheat Grass
Wheat grass has been popularized by Ann Wigmore. Wheat grass is probably the most popular growth and its therapeutic use is undeniable. It has spectacular effect. As it is an antioxidant, and it has alkalinizing and detoxifying properties, it oxygenates the brain. Wheat grass is one of the richest source of vitamins A and C that Nature provides. It contains all the minerals that our body needs: calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, sulphur, cobalt, and zinc, as well as all the amino acids, which makes a complete protein. This plant gets its miraculous powers from the very large quantity of chlorophyll it contains. Living food for an optimal health, from Brian Clement, co-founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute.

The use of wheat grass in juice as an aliment is a cure and a tonic. It fills the nutritional deficiencies and it eliminates the toxines that are located into the tissues, the organs, and the blood. It rebuilds and reinforces the immune system.

Conclusion
Any living grain will sprout. The technique is simple and requires few tools. With derisory costs, sprouting will guarantee a fresh alimentation, without any chemicals or preservatives. That is to create at home a biogenic battery very pleasant as well for children as for adults.