We deliver fresh product to the market every week. If the Saturday market doesn’t fit into your schedule and if you can’t make it to our greenhouse in Chandler, the Downtown Phoenix Public Market is your source for fresh wheatgrass and micro-greens. Their hours are: Tuesday thru Friday 11 am to 8 pm.

Also in case you didn’t know, you can purchase wheatgrass and micro-greens direct from our Chandler greenhouse Monday thru Friday 8 am to 5 pm, but make sure to call ahead to insure availability.

Our chickens are living out at RhibaFarms south near Florence.  When they get a little bigger they will move into their new chicken tractor and will serve a third purpose of conditioning the soil in the fields at RhibaFarms south.  These 50 chickens are merely chicks now but in about 5 months we will have eggs available.

JaimeeRose – Localove: the happiest $1 in town.

Check out this link for a news clip about folks in Des Moines using wheatgrass to boost their immune system. http://www.kcci.com/health/21396979/detail.html

Melissa in our office was haveing an itch frenzy from her recent mosquito bites.  That is her over to the right, looking frustrated with her mosquito bites.  We juiced up some wheatgrass and applied it to a bandage.  The bandage was taped onto her skin and left for about an hour.  Melissa reported imediate relief and the itching subsided for about 6 hours! 

Looks like this experiment was a sucess and itch relief can be added as another arrow into wheatgrass’s quiver of uses.  Next post we will be taking up the challange of wheatgrass as a breath freshiner.  Stay tuned.

First we cut some grass in one inch increments and put it in the blender.  Next we added a cup of water to help with the blending process.  We blended in 10 second bursts, so the blender wouldn’t heat up too much and blended until it was mostly all liquid.  The next step can be done a few different ways, we placed a coffee filter over a container and poured a portion of the freshly blended juice in.  We let the juice strain out, and then squeezed the remaining out by hand.  You can also use a sieve or what most people use is a nut milk bag to strain the juice from the remaining fiber.

Now you have a cup of green juice and you observant readers will remember that this juice is mostly water.  The best way to drink wheatgrass juice is as pure juice.  So the next step was to cut more grass for the blender, then we added our freshly strained juice back into the blender.  The idea is to keep doing this until the whole flat is juiced, that way the juice is as pure as you can get it using the blender.  Pour yourself a shot and the remaining juice you don’t drink can be frozen and used through out the week.

In conclusion, this may not be the best way to juice wheatgrass but it is a great way for people to get into wheatgrass and will do until you decided to fully commit and spend the money on a juicer.  The best part is that it is completely free, assuming you already own a blender.  Try it for yourself and let us know how it works out.

Harold Lindsey(bottom picture, on the right) is one of our farmers.  He is the one in the greenhouse making sure all your food is growing and looking good.  With years of experience in growing all types of plants, Harold is a key component in the RhibaFarms machine.  While Harold is greatly experienced in traditional farming, he is also an expert in hydroponics and will be key in our upcoming hydro project.  Harold is also often found Saturday at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, so if you have any growing questions feel free to come down and chat with him.

Jose Ibanez(left) also a farmer in the greenhouse is the father of RhibaFarms c0-owner Marlo Ibanez.  Jose is usually busy planting, watering, germinating seeds, and anything else you could think of when it comes to greenhouse growing.  He is too busy taking care of our produce to make it out to the markets, but all his hard work pays off when you taste our wheatgrass and shoots.

Here you can see one of our RhibaFarms pest control employees inspecting the boxes of wheatgrass.