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Standards For Drying Moringa Leaves

Posted by Kendrick Henry · February 21, 2023

Does Grow Moringa Have Standards?

regards to the drying and processing of our Loose Leaf Moringa products? Absolutely! We want to make sure that we're doing it safely and that our customers feel confident in our processes. We have many standards regarding drying; such as where it's dried, how it's dried, what it's dried on, and how long it's left to dry. Kendrick has been using, growing, and working with the Moringa Tree for almost a decade. He has figured out what works and what doesn't. He is passing along that information to all the members and the Grow Moringa Team is making sure those standards are followed when someone starts fulfilling orders through the Collective. If you'd like to fulfill orders or just want to know how your Moringa is being dried let me take you through the process.

Where it's dried.

Where your Moringa is dried is important. You want it to be in a space that is separate from daily life. For some that might be a garage, a spare bedroom, or a big walk in closet. The room should not be carpeted as carpet can trap all sorts of dirt and bacteria. Sometimes you may need to make a room within a room to keep the air quality good. We've had members put up some plastic sheeting to make a "clean room" where they dried their leaves.

How it's dried.

The Collective dries their greens on racks; we do not hang our greens to dry. When you bundle and hang your greens to dry, Kendrick found that sometimes the middle of the bundle would not dry as fast or as evenly and the middle would form mold, ruining the whole bundle and contaminating the other bundles around it.

What it's dried on.

We dry our Moringa on racks. The best way is to get stainless steel bread racks and make some stainless steel mesh trays to put your greens on. If you have a smaller operation and don't have as much space, an herb drying rack will work as well. The racks should be kept away from direct sunlight to keep the leaves from yellowing. The key to getting them dry without them forming mold is airflow.

How long it's left to dry.

After getting your greens on your rack you'll want to make sure you have an air purifier, dehumidifier, and fan in whatever space you're drying. Good, clean, dry airflow is key here. Your greens should be crispy/crunchy within 24 hours of getting them on the racks. That's great but they aren't completely dry yet. They need another 4 to 5 days to completely dry. This keeps them fresh for a longer amount of time.

Regulations

This is a farmed crop that's harvested, dried and packaged without further processing. Check with your state, but this harvesting, drying, and packaging isn't further regulated because you have not altered the product by cutting it or cooking it. This is how most of the produce in stores is sold and how you can have U-Pick Farms. We have our standards so we are extra sure our leaves are the best you can get.

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Growing Moringa to Detox Your Soil

Posted by Kendrick Henry · February 13, 2023

Cleaning the Soil

clean the soil? Yes, that's the whole reason why we have our members test the soil to make sure there are no toxins that the plant will pull out of the soil and into itself. So by planting the seed it's going to absorb all the heavy going to be there anymore. If there are heavy metals in the soil Moringa can be used to clean soil of heavy metals.

Removing Trees Roots and All

If you do that, you have to remove the trees physically like after two or three years; especially if you're in in a heavy metal ridden area planting thousands of trees, letting them grow to absorb the the metals in the trees and then burning them. that toxin will be in in the trunk, in the root tuber, and in the branches, but it will no longer be in the soil, which is the goal.

fields. "Brownfields are properties which have or potentially have hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants which inhibit the expansion, reuse or redevelopment of that property. These are also defined as properties which create a blight or contribute to barriers for economic activity due to vacancy and underutilization." Definition taken from hepure.com.

Cleaning Brownfields

lot and this downtown city lot used to have

nuclear power plant or it was a toxic waste zone, and it's really high in all of these heavy metals and pollutants. We can grow Moringa on it to remove those out of the soil. Afterwards you would test it to see if those levels are safe. So we can be a mitigation tool for cities municipalities and for land owners that may not want to grow Moringa as a crop but they found out that their soil is heavy in these items.

We Can Help Clean Our Cities

and they can purchase hundreds of thousands of seeds from us. We come in and we plant Moringa on their fields or property and then we act as the company also that could be hired to remove those Moringa trees.

Disposing of the Trees

How would we dispose of it? What do we do from there? We could make biochar with the removed trees and then from that point there may be another filtration even further and separate them absolutely. I think it's a great opportunity for Moringa to be used in non conventional ways. Pick up seeds today if you'd like to clean up your land and ensure there are no heavy metals in your soil!

Peace, Love, and Prosperous Growing!