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I want to share with you my passion for everything beautiful. Nature, beautiful flowers, cooking delicious foods, celebrating festivals, meeting with friends and family, and anything that brings joy and happiness.

What you will find here are a variety of healthy vegetarian recipes chock full of good for you vegetables, legumes, eggs, milk, cheese, and yogurt.

I love photography and love to take photos of my garden, places I’ve traveled to and of gatherings with families and friends.  Here you will find a little of everything, recipes, pictures, stories and everything happy.

Welcome to Surreyfarms. A healthy state of mind. With  Love, Kalpana

 

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain

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Healthy Tip

“Green, leafy vegetables such as arugula, kale, collard greens, broccoli, spinach, and Swiss chard are among the foods that support brain health.  Across several studies there is fairly consistent findings that green, leafy vegetables do seem to be related to decreased risk of cognitive impairments or dementia,” CBSnews.com

The joy of herb gardening

5 Lifestyle Habits that could help you live 10-years longer

  1. Not smoking
  2. Eating healthy
  3. Excercising regularly
  4. Maintaining a normal weight
  5. Drinking only in moderation

“The new findings come from two studies by Harvard University that have followed over 123,000 U.S. health professionals since the 1980s. Over the years, the participants gave detailed information on their diets, exercise habits and other lifestyle factors.

On average, the researchers found, people who adhered to the five healthy habits were 74 percent less likely to die during the study period, versus those who maintained none of those habits.

Those who followed all five good lifestyle habits were also 82 percent less likely to die of heart disease or stroke, and 65 percent less likely to die of cancer, the findings showed.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-habits-that-could-help-you-live-10-years-longer/

 

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Low-carb diets might be best for maintaining weight loss

“We found that the type of diet people ate had a major impact on their metabolism. Those on the low-carbohydrate diet burned about 250 calories a day more than those on the high-carbohydrate diet, even though all the groups were the same weight,” said Dr. David Ludwig, principal investigator of the study and co-director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/health/low-carb-diet-weight-loss-maintenance-study/index.html

Gardening could be the hobby that helps you live to 100

 

According to a recent BBC article Many of the world’s centenarians share one common hobby: gardening.

Dan Buettner the author of “Blue Zones” who has studied five places around the world where residents are famed for their longevity: Okinawa in Japan, Nicoya in Costa Rica, Icaria in Greece, and Loma Linda in California and Sardinia in Italy attributes gardening as one of the long-life hobbies.

“People living in these so-called “blue zones” have certain factors in common – social support networks, daily exercise habits and a plant-based diet, for starters. But they share another unexpected commonality. In each community, people are gardening well into old age – their 80s, 90s and beyond.”

He says there is evidence that gardeners live longer and are less stressed. A variety of studies confirm this, pointing to both the physical and mental health benefits of gardening.

Source: BBC.com http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20181210-gardening-could-be-the-hobby-that-helps-you-live-to-100

 

A little about edible flowers

Using edible flowers in cakes and salads is an age old tradition that dates back centuries that became not so fashionable over the last few decades, however with the recent revival of organic gardening and holistic natural healing remedies, using edible flowers and herbs is coming back into popularity.

You may be surpried to learn that the list of edible flowers is huge with over hundred herbs and flowers that are edible. Just make sure to do your research before you head out into your garden and use flowers and herbs in your cooking.

As for me, I’ve always loved the idea of incorporating flowers and herbs as edible decorations in my foods. I tend to use edible flowers from my garden that I am familiar with that look pretty and are pesticide free. Most of my edibles are roses, nasturtiums, pansies, and marigolds. I also use the flowers that form on vegetables and herb plants.

Once you see the potential of using edible flowers and herbs in your desserts, salads, soups and stews, the possibitlies are endless.

 

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