Herbal Studies – Part 5 Further Study

FURTHER STUDY

1. Redo experiment number two using different kinds of eggshells - white ones and brown ones, store-bought and farm-bought, from caged birds and free-range birds.
   Can you see any differences?
   
   Taste or smell any differences?
   
   
2. Make vinegars at different times of the year and compare them.

ADVANCED WORK

• Unpasteurized vinegar can form a "mother." In a jar filled with herb and vinegar, the vinegar mother usually grows across the top of the herb, and looking rather like a damp, thin pancake. Kombucha is a vinegar mother. Does your local health food store sell mothers?
  Kombucha?
  What is a vinegar mother?
  Is it harmful?
  
  
• What is an ionic form of a mineral?
  
  
  
  
• What is a mineral salt?
  
  
  
  
• How do our bodies take up and utilize minerals?