Another Day Ends

The pic shows Jody and Josephine bringing in the velvet bean seed to be stored
Jody is still in volunteering mode and Alinipher took the pic.
Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) This is by far the most popular of the green manure plants used both by Central American traditional systems and development programs worldwide and for good reasons. Of the legumes, it is one of the best N-fixers (150 kgs/Ha), and one of the best weed suppressors. It grows well in very poor soil and resists both drought and heavy rains quite well.
Velvet bean has been used as part of the traditional herbal treatment for Parkinson's disease in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries. Empirical evidence gathered over this time strongly suggests that this treatment stops the progress of the disease by helping to regenerate the nervous system and arresting damage caused by free radicals. Herbal treatment has not been shown to reverse Parkinson?s disease, however.