Many people are intimidated by the thought of cleaning fish, Sweet Water volunteer Margaret Muza demonstrates just how simple it is to fillet a fish. Enjoy.
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Sprouts are considered as wonder foods. They rank as the freshest and most nutritious of all vegetables available to the human diet. By a process of natural transmutation, sprouted food acquires vastly improved digestibility and nutritional qualities when compared to non-sprouted embryo from which it derives.
Spout nutrition facts
Broccoli sprouts: Broccoli sprouts have a mildly peppery flavor They are also high in the cancer fighting compound, sulforaphane. Uses: Excellent juiced or in salads
Radish sprouts: Radish sprouts have 29 times more vitamin C than milk and 4 times the vitamin A. These spicy spouts have 10 times more calcium than a potato and contain more vitamin C than a pineapple. Uses: Too delicate for cooking, radish sprouts are generally used to spice up salads or sandwiches.
Sunflower sprouts: Sunflower sprouts are a rich source of lecithin and vitamin D. The sunflower sprout is known for its crispness and nutty flavor. It breaks down fatty acids into an easily digestible, water soluble form. Uses: A delicious addition to salads. They can also be juiced and used in green drinks.
Pea Shoots: Pea Shoots are a nutritious leaf with high levels of vitamin C and vitamin A.
* Add to tossed salads
* Use in coleslaw (cabbage, clover, radish)
* Try in wraps and roll-ups (alfalfa, sunflower, radish)
* Stir-fry with other vegetables (alfalfa, clover, radish, mung bean, lentil)
* Replace celery in sandwich spreads (lentil, radish)
* Mix with soft cheeses for a dip (mung bean, radish)
* Grind up and use in sandwich spreads (lentil, radish)
* Eat them fresh and uncooked in a sprout salad (salad mixes)
* Top omelet or scrambled eggs (alfalfa, clover, radish)
* Add to sushi (radish, sunflower)
* Saute with onions (mung bean, clover, radish)
* Puree with peas or beans (mung bean, lentil)
* Add to baked beans (lentil)
* Steam and serve with butter (mung bean, lentil)
* Use in sandwiches instead of lettuce (alfalfa, clover, radish)
This is why we need fish farms such as Sweet Water Organics more than ever!
Plight of the yellow perch
Journal Sentinel, By: Paul A. Smith, July 9, 2011
Exerpt: Perch have suffered from years of extremely poor recruitment, or survival of young fish, since the early 1990s.
The decline of the native fish is thought to be linked to drastic changes in the lake's food web brought on by invasive zebra and quagga mussels in the last two decades.
In addition to poor recruitment, a troubling sex imbalance has recently emerged in the population, prompting research into a hormonal syndrome.
"There is certainly concern for the perch," said Pradeep Hirethota, senior fisheries biologist for the Department of Natural Resources.
According to population estimates, the number of perch in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan has declined from 24.6 million in 1990 to 2.6 million in 2000 to 316,210 in 2009, the last year for which data are available.
In response to the decline, Wisconsin closed the commercial perch fishery on Lake Michigan in 1996. Illinois and Indiana also closed their commercial perch fisheries. Michigan allows some tribal harvest of perch.
mk The Restaurant Serving Sustainable and Locally Produced Food and Wine for President Obama's Dinner Thursday, April 14th. Sweet Water Perch is on the menu! mk The Restaurant’s Chefs Michael Kornick and Erick Williams will be preparing a spectacular dinner featuring only sustainably produced food and wine from America for President Obama’s fundraising dinner on Thursday, April 14th. Highlights from the menu will feature perch from Sweet Water Organics, steak from Bill Kurtis’ Tall Grass Beef Company, as well as Qupe and Au Bon Climat wines.
Starting off the night will be a hors d’oeurves of perch served with Fish Bar tartar sauce. This isn’t your typical perch. The fish have been commercially raised by Sweet Water Organics through an innovative aquaponic system of agriculture, which is a simultaneous cultivation of plants and fish. Through their aquaponic agriculture, Sweet Water Organics is helping address global warming and food insecurity in the 21st Century while providing people with locally grown fish.
Guests will also enjoy Tallgrass beef tartare. Tallgrass Beef Company is one of America’s leaders in grass-fed beef, which produces healthier meat that is higher in Omega-3s and vitamins. The cattle are never raised in feedlots or are given hormones. Instead they are raised naturally in pastures, which results in better tasting meat which is also better for the environment. The elegant hors d’oeurves of perch, beef and lobster will be paired with a 2009 Qupe Cuve Chardonnay. Qupe Vineyards is based in California’s Central Coast and employs traditional winemaking practices and they are committed to sourcing the best grapes. In 2010, Food & Wine Magazine named Qupe one of the World’s 50 Most Influential Winemakers. The evening will progress to an exceptional dinner of Maine salmon and seared Maine scallops with short ribs that will be paired with a 2007 Au Bon Climat pinot noir. Au Bon Climat is located on the world-famous Bien Nacido winery in California’s Santa Barbara County and sources the best fruit the Central Coast has to offer. Food & Wine Magazine named Jim Cleneden "Winemaker of the Year" in 2001, and in 2007, Jim was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Au Bon Climat’s wines continue to earn international praise. Serving sustainable, local and environmentally conscious food and wine is at the core of chefs Michael Kornick and Erick Williams’ culinary philosophy, and President Obama’s dinner is no exception.
Sweet Water Organics recently opened a retail store. We are filling our store with great Sweet Water products and merchandise, as well as other goods from some of our valuable partners. The Store is currently open Wednesdays and Fridays from 4pm to 7pm. Tours are available every Wednesday and Friday at 6pm and Sundays at noon. You can also purchase Sweet Water perch from Empire Fish. Sweet Water is located at 2151 S. Robinson Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207.
Sweet Water Organics is looking to hire a few talented people in the fields of Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Organic Farming, Horticulture, and Aquatic Biology.
If you have experience in the related field/s, and are hard-working, energetic, self-motivated and organized you may be just the person we are looking for. Send us your resume. A Degree is a plus, but not necessary. Part time / Full time opportunities available.
IBM will announce Wednesday that Milwaukee is among 24 cities worldwide to receive a Smarter Cities Challenge grant, which will give the city access to top IBM experts and technology to potentially expand local, cutting-edge urban agriculture efforts around the globe.
In their recent series of “Green” stories, NBC Nightly News featured Milwaukee’s Sweet Water Organics (original air date: Monday, November 15th). Anne Thompson, NBC’s Environmental reporter, covered the story of Sweet Water with the co-founders, Josh Fraundorf and James Godsil, and the educational outreach programs of the Sweet Water Foundation with Emmanuel Pratt, the foundation’s Executive Director. Also featured was La Merenda, Milwaukee tapas destination restaurant and one of Sweet Water’s partners, preparing a fresh delivery of Sweet Water tilapia for an evening’s dinner special.
