Beauty uses for Strawberries in Nairobi

Here at Jade Gardens Farm, we love strawberries.

Strawberries - yum!

They are mostly eaten in salads, with whipped cream or in smoothies or juices. They can also be used for beauty reasons like on your skin.

Strawberries are good for your skin while applied topically. They are packed with anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants help skin look younger & brighter, they repair skin that has been burnt by the sun. They also effectively and efficiently deal with oily skin and acne.

Strawberries also have AHA's (Alpha Hydroxy Acids); they have excellent exfoliating capabilities. This means they remove the skin's dead cell build-up which leaves your skin glowing.

Here are tow Strawberry scrub ideas you can use at home:

FOR PUFFY EYES:

- 1 large Strawberry

Directions
- Slice the strawberry in half and place the slices on your eyes.
- Remove the slices and follow up with a gentle moisturizer.

FOR SOFT SKIN:

- 1T Organic Honey
- 3 ripe, mushed medium Strawberries
- 1T Heavy Cream

Directions:


- Mix it all to make a paste and apply it on your face.
- Leave it on for 10 minutes. Rinse off with cold water.
- If you have sensitive skin, substitute the cream with yoghurt.

Try this out at home and promise you'll feel great afterwards and your skin will thank you ^_^!

Any other beauty scrubs you use ate home with Strawberries? Please share with us.

Jade Vermi Composting Project

Facts about Composting and Organic farming

1. Composting is a key ingredient in Organic farming.
1. We use organic matter like vegetable and fruit peels, plant leaves and stalks, and food waste to create compost. The decayed matter that comes from gives us fertilizer to use in our soil to enrich it with nutrients.

Using chemicals in soil destroys the good micro organisms that help our plants to grow healthily so we opt to use Composting. We're always excited to learn new ways of improving our soil. This blog introduces to you our new skill, learned from a very cool, awesome guy who does Vermi Composting.

We have recently learned about Vermi Composting. 

What is Vermi Compost?

-        This is using earthworms to create nutrient rich organic fertilizers and soil conditioner.

Why use Vermi Compost?

-        It helps improve soil structure.

-        Improves water holding capacity.

-        Enriches soil in micro-organisms

-        Attract deep burrowing earthworms already present in soil

-        It enhances germination, plant grown and crop yield

-        Improving root germination

The soil turns a dark black color that absorbs water readily

Jade Vermi Composting Project

Here at Jade Gardens, we have started our own Vermi Compost project. We want to try out Vermi Composting. We are always learning new techniques to improve our organic farming. We'll share this new experience with you as we learn a new way of improving our soil using Vermi Compost! For the next 60 days, we’re going to log in our progress on our blog. Stay tuned as we embark on our own vermi composting adventure. 

Did you know?

A worm has no arms, legs or eyes.

What we need: 

1. A box to keep our earthworms warm and working through the night. 

2. Some earthworms. We'll go on an earthworm hunt around our farm.

3. A warm dark area to keep our worms.

Next Week:

We'll show you pictures of our set up!

Stay tuned. 

Jade Gardens Farm

We’re glad to introduce Jade Gardens Farm. We are a family based farm on Ndwaru Road in Riruta, Nairobi. We grow and sell seasonal vegetables, herbs and fruits like Dhania (coriander), tomatoes, rosemary, lemongrass, strawberries, mangoes and avocados to name a few.

We also like to share information on healthy habits to adopt in order to live a healthier lifestyle especially here in our lovely city, Nairobi.

We provide information via e-books which we sell to our customers for a very low price. We have started a series of e-books called “Healthy Habits” that will provide you with a wealth of information on different kinds of herbs, vegetables and fruits that will benefit your health positively.

The first is a series of e-books on Healthy Habits: 15 Essential Herbs for your kitchen. We are working with an online based enterprise named Zealot Merchants to publish and promote our e-books. You can also purchase a copy from our website as well. Just got to our Products Menu and order from the shopping cart, you can also make an order from our contact page and we’ll get back to you immediately.

We are glad to be sharing this information and products with you, and we will continue to do so with your support.

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Strawberry goodness

Fun Facts about Strawberries

The fruits are eaten fresh. These variety is small and sweet. Deliciously tasty.

They can be processed into jams and juices, milk shake, yoghurt, cake decorations and in salads. They are easy to plant, can be potted, grown in the flower garden. 

  

We sell Strawberry plant-lets. Check out our website to order a set of 10 pieces to grow in your garden.