BRANDO: It has raised this plant called salicornia (ph) and Manuel Oranzo (ph) who is very dedicated to environmental issues in Mexico and he is teaching children to be aware of their environment and I have a feeling that I'm rushing to get this information out and it's your show. ❋ Unknown (2003)
MotherJones. com around the question: Is organic and local so 2008? in the mid-'80s, an atmospheric physicist named Carl N. Hodges predicted that the key to saving the planet was to make the desert bloom-with a spindly saltwater plant known as salicornia, a.k.a. sea asparagus. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Vegetation, where present, is sparse and composed of salt-tolerant plants such as salicornia and saltgrass. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Seawater forests of mangrove trees and agronomic meadows, such as salicornia, yield lumber and food for humans and animals. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Introducing salt-tolerant crops such as salicornia could utilise millions of hectares of unproductive arid land while conserving valuable freshwater resources and providing both material and economic returns to local inhabitants. ❋ [email protected] (Inter Press Service: (2010)
Back to vegetables: Fishwife, salicornia/salsola is said to be able to get along without salt, but I will take on board what you say. ❋ Jean (2009)
And just last week I made an abalone dish with sea beans samphire, salicornia -- the plant has many names and New Zealand spinach I'd foraged within yards of the shore. ❋ Stephanie J. Stiavetti (2011)
Hytra Grouper on a bed of salicornia and spinach accompanied with a crayfish sauce scented with pelargonium at Hytra It's daybreak at Athens' Agora, or central market, and the air is buzzing with the cries of fish mongers hawking the day's catch. ❋ Christine Pirovolakis (2011)
The main crop of Hodges's seawater farms, salicornia, is a high-protein food source for livestock and, increasingly, for people. ❋ Spangler, Adam (2007)
Vegetable oil and high-protein meal are extracted from the salicornia seed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
SeaForest Solid BioFuel-2, made from salicornia straw and mangrove material, provides electricity for the entire community with no net emission of carbon into the atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In its four years of operation — political upheaval shut the project down in 2003 — Seawater Farms Eritrea planted 250 acres of salicornia and nearly 240 acres of seawater forest. ❋ Spangler, Adam (2007)
Usually served in restaurants under the name samphire, or sea asparagus, salicornia is often served in salads or with seafood (or in England as a side dish, with a little butter and vinegar). ❋ Spangler, Adam (2007)
The real usefulness of the salicornia, however, is not in sating our appetites for food, but our appetites for fuel. ❋ Spangler, Adam (2007)
Hidden behind the folded hills, approached by lovely little glades and winding bridle-path, tosses and foams the Gave d'Aspe, its banks thickly set with willow and salicornia, its solitary coves inviting the bather. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
There is much sadness yet poetic charm in the landscape sweeps of silvery-green olive or bluish salicornia against a pale-blue sky, dull-brown fishing villages bordering sleepy lagoons, stretches of white sand, with here and there a glimpse of the purple, rock-hemmed sea. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
