Growing Sponges

At my yoga class, there was a seed bank. It was small and there were not many contributors but someone put in loofah. I did not know this was a vegetable. I only heard of it being a sponge, and I always thought it grew in the ocean. Anyway, I decided to grow it, and I did more research in the process. Now I am making sponges from it! These sponges are great. They are compostable. There is no waste. You can also eat loofah. I haven’t tried this yet, but it needs to be done when loofah is young. Here is my video about loofah:

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I am a board certified emergency physician who is passionate about lifestyle medicine. My blog includes posts about how lifestyle medicine has helped people improve their lives as well as gardening and other random adventures....