Recently I learned that adding powdered wheat grass to smoothies will greatly increase the health benefits of the smoothie. There is, in fact, a product on Amazon that is exactly that, and the prices vary widely, none of them what I'd call "reasonably priced", and we don't really know where they were grown.

I have a supply of wheat berries, since I buy it every year from a Kansas farmer, and so I went out to the garden one day with a jar from a the previous year's supply. So I just cast some out onto the ground and then walked around over it. I didn't water them in because it was the end of the day with rain forecast the next day. I knew the birds would come and reduce the seed population some, and I allowed for that.

Here's what grew:

So I went out with my kitchen shears and cut some, then spread it on newspaper to dry.

It's ready now to put in a jar, which I'll seal up tight with my FoodSaver and put in my pantry where it's cool and dark.

I will put it into the blender as the first ingredient, only enough to make about a tablespoon, whir it into a powder, then add my other ingredients, including some frozen kale, some frozen strawberries or blueberries, some milk, and a handful of frozen peas, grown in the garden last year. Botta Bing, inexpensive healthy protein smoothie. I don't need mine to be very sweet but if you do, you can add a chopped date, or use fruit juice instead of the milk, or add some local honey (not that stuff from the store that includes corn syrup), or if you really want to, even, yikes, refined sugar or any of the *healthier* artificial sweeteners, such as stevia or ? I guess a lot of people are using Xylitol now. We all do what we can.

There are lots of videos on growing wheat grass at home on YouTube. I won't put a link on because lots of them are easily found with just a quick search.