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My husband has taken up gardening in the last couple of years. He sites several reasons for why he has started gardening, but one of them I hear him repeat often often is that gardening was one of the most common denominators in the Blue Zones of longevity. Have you heard of or read Blue Zones? According to wiki: “A blue zone is a region in the world where people are claimed to have exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 80 due to a lifestyle combining physical activity, low stress, rich social interactions, a local whole-foods diet, and low disease incidence. Examples of blue zones include Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Icaria, Greece. The name “blue zones” derived simply during the original survey by scientists, who used a blue pen on a map to mark the villages with long-lived population.” The combination of getting physical exercise from gardening and also eating fresh whole foods at their peak is a one-two punch for good health. Whatever his motivation, I am all in. Now…what does one do with this many garlic scapes?

garlic scapes