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WHAT IF THERE WERE A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE THAT COULD PROVIDE BOTH FOOD FOR THE GROWERS AND MARKETABLE FAIR TRADE COMMODITIES FOR EXPORT IN SOME OF THE POOREST REGIONS OF THE WORLD?

There is. Again the moringa tree provides life saving food sources from leaves, nutritional juices and drinks, seed powder for safe drinking water, both at the family level and larger scale. The seeds yield a valuable vegetable oil with so many uses.

But, the most important fair trade marketable item is MORINGA TEA. This is a flavorful, healthy, environmentally friendly drink. This tea has a natural, spicy flavor, either hot or iced. It can be made in a variety of specialty flavors including; ginger, cinnamon, licorice, apple, strawberry, even holy basil, and many others.


THE MIRACLE OF THE MORINGA TREE,© 2010, Petals & Pages Press

(A Soon to be published children’s book)





The Miracle of the Moringa Tree. This book was created as a tool to help create awareness of the value of the moringa tree in controlling malnutrition and providing safe drinking water. One of the intriguing facts about this tree is that if you take a world map with the regions where hunger and malnutrition are the most prevalent, and a map where moringa will grow best, the two maps are almost identical.

This tree can be one of the key solutions to global hunger, but we need to let the people know about it.

The Miracle of the Moringa Tree is a simple children’s story. It has been beautifully illustrated by a Japanese graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Miho Komatsu, with rich colors to attract attention to the vital story line. Amali and her brother Njema live in a drought stricken Kenyan village. Mzee, the elder, tells the people not to give up hope and points toward the distant hills. That night the two children set off to find the food Mzee speaks of. The next day they discover a moringa tree. The tree teaches them how to cook and eat the leaves, pods and seeds. It also teaches them how to purify the dirty water with the moringa seeds. They take bags and baskets of the leaves, pods and seeds back to the village and show everyone how to prepare this new food, then how to plant the seeds so that they could grow enough food that no one in the village will ever feel the pain of hunger again.


Illustration from rear cover, Miracle of the Morenga Tree

Ounce for ounce, this is how dried Moringa leaf powder, compares with other foods:

7 times the vitamin C that is in oranges,

4 times the calcium, 2 times the protein that is in milk,

4 times the vitamin A that is in carrots,

3 times the potassium as that is in bananas,

3 times the iron that is in spinach.

The leaf powder can be added to water or food like cereals, gravies,

soups or vegetables to add vitamins and minerals.