Tower Garden in Kansas City…The Better Way To Eat Healthy – Back and Bodyworks Massage

The better way to eat healthy

You don’t need any experience to use Tower Garden.  And it will fit on your deck, patio, porch or rooftop in large cities.

It’s healthier

Tower Garden helps you eat more fruits and vegetables by letting you grow delicious vine-ripened produce right outside your back door. Grow almost anything you like, including tomatoes, lettuce, basil, peppers, spinach, beans, cucumbers, melons, and herbs. And increase your children’s interest in eating fresh fruits and vegetables by involving them in gardening. Learn more about the health benefits of Tower Garden produce »

It’s easier

Tower Garden is easy to assemble and maintain, and it can be placed in any relatively sunny place outside. There’s no soil, no weeds, and no ground pests to worry about. And you’ll have a full range of customer support to help ensure a successful growing experience, including our online Resource Center. Discover all the ways Tower Garden makes gardening easier »

It’s smarter

Because of its unique aeroponic technology and vertical design, Tower Garden uses less than 10% of the water and land required by traditional, soil-based agriculture. Plus, find out how Tower Garden can save you money on produce »

 

To order a Tower Garden please go to http://www.kc.towergarden.com or contact us here at Back and Bodyworks

What Kind Of Fruits And Vegetable Can You Grow In Tower Garden

What kind of fruits and vegetables can you grow in Tower Garden.  You really aren’t limited except for rooted vegetables like carrots.

 

Fruits & Vegetables

• Amaranth (vegetable type)
• Arugula
• Bayam
• Beans: Lima, bush, pole, shell, fava, green
• Broccoli
• Broccoli Raab
• Brussels Sprouts
• Cabbage and Chinese cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Chard, all types
• Chicory
• Collards
• Cucumbers
• Cress

• Dandelion, Italian
• Eggplant, European and Asian
• Endive
• Escarole
• Garbanzo beans
• Gourds, edible and ornamental
• Kale
• Kinh gioi
• Kohlrabi
• Komatsuna
• Leeks
• Lettuce, all types
• Mesclun Varieties
• Melons, all types

• Misome
• Mizuna
• Mustard Greens
• Ngo Gai
• Okra
• Pak Choy
• Perilla
• Peas, all types
• Peppers, all types
• Radicchio
• Sorrel
• Spinach
• Squash, all types
• Strawberries
• Tomatoes, all types

Herbs

• Angelica
• Anise Hyssop
• Basil, all types
• Bee Balm
• Borage
• Calendula
• Catmint
• Catnip
• Chamomile
• Chervil
• Chives
• Cilantro (Coriander) and Culantro
• Citrus Basil
• Cumin
• Cutting Celery
• Dandelion
• Dill

• Echinacea (Coneflower)
• Epazote
• Feverfew
• Flax
• Garlic Chives
• Goldenseal
• Hyssop
• Lavender
• Leaf Fennel
• Lemon Balm
• Lemon Grass
• Lovage
• Marjoram
• Mexican Mint Marigold
• Milk Thistle
• Mint, all varieties

• 

  Nettle

• Oregano
• Parsley (leafy types only)
• Passion Flower
• Pleurisy Root
• Pyrethrum
• Rosemary
• Rue
• Sage
• Salad Burnet
• Saltwort
• Savory
• Shiso
• Stevia
• Thyme
• Valerian
• Wormwood
• Mibura

Flowers

Edible Flowers include:

• Calendula
• Carthamus
• Dianthus
• Hyacinth Bean

• Marigolds
• Monarda
• Nasturtiums
• Pansies
• Salvia

• Scarlet Runner Bean
• Sunflowers (dwarf varieties only)
• Violas

Ornamental Flowers include:

• Ageratum
• Agrostemma
• Ammi
• Amaranth, Globe
• Amaranthus
• Artemisia
• Aster
• Bells of Ireland
• Bupleurum
• Cardoon
• Safflower
• Centaurea
• Celosia
• Coleus
• Cosmos

• Craspedia
• Datura
• Delphinium
• Digitalis
• Eucalyptus
• Euphorbia
• Forget-me-not
• Hibiscus
• Impatiens
• Kale, ornamental
• Morning Glory
• Nigella
• Petunia
• Phlox
• Poppy

• Polygonum
• Ptilotus
• Salpiglossis
• Rudbeckia
• Sanvitalia
• Scabiosa
• Snapdragon
• Statice
• Stock
• Strawflower
• Sweet Peas
• Thunbergia
• Verbena
• Yarrow
• Zinnia

What is Tower Garden? Nine Information Points To Rest Your Curiousity

Put a farmer’s market on your back porch, deck, patio or rooftop. No bending, no weeding, no tilling and no dirt… an aeroponic vertical growing system that is sweeping the nation!

Tower Garden® is a state-of-the-art vertical aeroponic growing system. It’s perfect for rooftops, patios, balconies, terraces—just about any relatively sunny place outside.

Using aeroponics and our specially formulated Tower Tonic plant food, it grows almost any vegetable, herb, or flower—and many fruits—in less time than it takes in soil.*

Tower Garden gives you more control of your and your family’s health by making it easy to grow nutritious, great-tasting vegetables and fruits at home. And it’s a smart choice, both environmentally and economically. Read more about the numerous advantages of Tower Garden

If you would be interested in purchasing one for your home please visit http://kc.towergarden.com  it can be shipped directly to your home anywhere in the United States.

• What is Tower Garden?
• Tower Garden Growing System
• Tower Tonic
• How It Works
  • Aeroponics
• Photos & Videos
  • Growing Inspirations
  • Interesting Spaces
  • Public Applications

 

What’s The Difference Between Hydroponics and Aeroponics As In The Tower Garden?

With new procedures being developed over the past century in Agriculture, planting has become easier than it was before.

The two main players in the new way of planting fruits and vegetable are  Hydroponics and Aeroponics.  These two techniques have come a long way in developing the agriculture and food production.  But some are still confused on the  difference between the two.

HYDROPONICS:

Very little or no soil is needed for plant growth in the hydroponic method; this means food can be grown in regions with poor soil or little rainfall. Hydroponic farmers place their plants in circulating water filled with nutrients; the roots absorb the nutrients, while the shoots remain above the water.

AEROPONICS:

The aeroponic method eliminates the need for soil and nearly does away with having to use water. Aeroponic plants are suspended in the air, with frequent blasts of liquid nutrients’ mist shot at their roots to keep them moist and enable the plant to grow.

If you would like additional information about the Tower Garden Vertical Aeroponic growing system, please visit  http://kc.towergarden.com.  It can be purchased on-line and shipped directly to your door.  We have one in our lobby if you would like to see it in person at Back and Bodyworks Massage.  Or visit us on Facebook where we are documenting the progress of our Tower Garden

 

 

 

 

Tower Garden – Chef Supplies All Veggies From Tower Garden – Kansas City

Tower Garden at http://www.backandbodyworks.com Aeroponic Gardening. Aeropoinc Vertical Garden

New York restaurateur, John Mooney, is changing the way restaurants think about fresh vegetables for their customers.

Graciously sitting on a rooftop in New York is his farm of Tower Gardens, an vertical aeroponic growing system that requires no dirt, no kneeling, no weeding, no tilling and produces produce in half the time as when using dirt.

Back and Bodyworks Massage promote wellness and eating healthy just as much as we promote massage as part of your monthly health regimen.  That’s one of the reasons we are SOLD on the Tower Garden ! If you would like information through email:  sharon@backandbodyworks.com

Click on this link and enjoy what Cubeme.com has to say about John and his Tower Garden farm!

Tower Garden Progress – Aeroponic Gardening For Decks, Patios, Rooftops And Even Inside

Last Monday, April 9, 2012,  Back and Bodyworks placed the plants in our new Tower Garden.  We’re all really excited to see the weekly progress and how our garden will grow.

The Tower Garden is the newest concept in Aeroponic Gardening.  This amazing garden requires no kneeling, no weed pulling, no dirt just basically sunshine and water!!

Here is a time lapse video of how it can produce in just four weeks.  It is said that fruits and vegetable grow in half the time it takes in soil.

What’s totally unique about these gardens is if you live in an apartment or even a house with a yard so small there’s no room for a garden, these are perfect.  If you have an elderly relative who use to garden and enjoys getting out on their patio, but traditional gardening is out of the question, Tower Garden is your answer.  They fit beautifully on deck, balconies, rooftops or patios.

This is after just one week.

Someone asked, “What kind of things are you growing?”  Oh you wouldn’t believe the variety: Cherry Tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes, Beef Steak Tomatoes, Basil, Green Peppers, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Gourmet Lettuce and some Greens

We will be monitoring the progress of the Tower Garden each week and posting it here.  If you would like more information about the Tower Garden, or would like to purchase on contact sharon@backandbodyworks.com .

Could You Use 14 Ways To Relax?

What do you do when there isn’t a massage readily available?  Perhaps these 14 tips will rattle your brain into scheduling a little “me” time for yourself.  As women we carry most of the family responsibilities, worries and burdens.  Running kids from here to there, what’s for dinner, my baseball uniform isn’t washed, my dolls head came off.   Or if you spend your day in the board room with back to back meetings, you also need to find some “me” time.  Follow this link to get some relaxing ideas.

The Newest Thing In Healthy Eating – Tower Garden A Vertical Aeroponic Growing System

Back and Bodyworks is celebrating Spring with a Tower Garden!!!  This is an amazing and excited new way of growing your own Farmer’s Market! Tower Garden® is a state-of-the-art vertical aeroponic growing system. It’s perfect for rooftops, patios, balconies, terraces—just about any relatively sunny place outside!

There’s no weeding, tilling, kneeling or getting dirty! You don’t even have to have a “green thumb.”  The Tower Garden uses a closed system technology to recycle 100% of the nutrients and water.  This means the plants use as little as 5-10% of the nutrients and water that is commonly used in conventional and organic farming.

It’s each to assemble and fun for the whole family to watch your food grow from seed to an abundant harvest ready to eat in a few short weeks!

You can grow 20 plants per tower and grow almost any non-root vegetable, herb or flower!

These amazing towers will be available in April this year.   Keep coming back here if you want to see how our veggies grow and we don’t even have green thumbs!!

Tower Garden video of how fast the plants grow.

Wall Street Journal and Mayo Clinic say: Get A Massage!

Wall Street Journals Boasts Benefits of Massage

The Wall Street Journal posted this video of the health benefits of massage.  It’s long been evident that massage not only helps people physically but mentally as well.

Even the Mayo Clinic boasts the benefits of massage for

• Stress relief
• Managing anxiety and depression
• Pain
• Stiffness
• Blood pressure control
• Infant growth
• Sports-related injuries
• Boosting immunity
• Cancer

Sadly still, few insurance companies recognize the benefits that could be gained.

Kansas City, Missouri has a variety of massage establishments, but the one that has been voted consistently as Kansas City’s Best Place to get a massage is

Back and Bodyworks!   816-420-8800

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Can Staying Away From White Foods Help You?

White Foods = Bad Carbs   What exactly are white foods?  

Generally speaking white foods are just that… “white.”

Rice, Flour, bread, cereal, crackers, pasta and table sugar mainly.  Not to be confused with unprocessed white foods such as onions, cauliflower, turnips, white beans and white potatoes – they aren’t considered “bad for you white foods,” unless of course you deep fry them or load them up with butter, sour cream and cheese!  Dr. Oz warns against white foods as well as Web MD!

Have a listen to Dr. Oz and read up on Web MD!