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How much money do you pay for the coffee when getting a coffee

When you pay for a cup of coffee at Starbucks or any other coffee shop, you might pay around $3 or up to $10 for a single drink. The farmer only gets under 10 cents, usually around 5 cents. According to fairtrade.net farmers earn with $1 per pound of coffee only half the living wage. With 1.40 per pound the farmers operate under the poverty line.

What can we do to help the farmers? The easiest thing is to buys fair-trade coffee, even at the coffee shop. It’s not always more expensive, as the coffee price itself makes up a very small portion of your drink.

For my part, I invest only in organic fair trade coffee. If it seems too expensive and I cannot afford it, I simply don’t buy coffee. Coffee is not a necessity, even though the coffee addictions would not subscribe to it. I would rather buy something else, that is worth the money to me, like cacao or cashews, and the farmers can live of it.

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Autumn produce haul vegan and raw

I only order fresh produce once a week. Ordering products online is certainly a bit more expensive than going to an organic supermarket here in Germany, but it has many advantages. I save time, I don’t have to drive to the store, I plan my meals a little better in advance and am more organized overall.

In the video you can see my organic produce picks for this week. During the autumn season I try to buy local seasonal products that don’t come from far away. Especially the watermelons, honeydew melons, grapes and the kale are in season and on sale where I order from.

Kale salad with corn and bell pepper

Simple raw vegan salad with veggies and kale I made in Costa Rica.

kale

Wonderful green for salads, chips, and smoothies.

corn

Sweet corn for vegan and raw recipes.

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Kale salad with corn and bell pepper

Kale salad with corn and bell pepper | raw and vegan

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20
kale leaves, washed and chopped
1
corn cob, kernels cut off
3 EL freshly squeezed
1
Alle Zutaten vermischen.

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Kale salad with corn?

I enjoy eating raw corn in salads. It makes especially the kale salad a bit creamier. In addition, the sweetness in the corn balances out the bitterness of the kale quite a bit. The lemon juice also softens the kale taste a little. Not that I don’t like the kale flavor. But, I sometimes like a milder salad with all the good nutrients from the kale. I especially make sure to buy organic corn. But all the other ingredients as well.

Was ich heute in Costa Rica gegessen habe

Heute gab es Papayas, Bananen, viele Kokosnüsse, Biriba und Kalesalat.

How I try to eat more bell peppers

Unfortunately, I don’t eat bell peppers enough. I don’t automatically grab bell peppers when making a salad. That’s unfortunate. When cut into small pieces, bell peppers tastes particularly good in a kale salad. Especially red and yellow bell peppers. The paprika-corn combination is particularly tasty.

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Bad mushrooms

Mushroom season is approaching and there are so many beautiful mushrooms in the woods. While it might be tempting to pick the mushrooms you, not all mushrooms you are finding are edible.

Some mushrooms might be just bitter and not very tasty, but many are really poisonous and consumption of just a piece might be lethal, especially for small children.

The deadly mushrooms are distributed throughout Europe and might be mistaken for edible varieties. Almost every edible variety of mushrooms has it’s poisonous doppelgänger. Accidental consumption of poisonous mushrooms leads to severe liver toxicity and can have lethal consequences if immediate treatment is not provided.

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It’s mushroom season, be careful guys! Sammelt keine unbekannten Pilze! #giftigepilze #vorsicht #pilze #wald

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The safest way to consume mushrooms is to only eat store bought mushrooms. If you are really enthusiastic about picking your own mushrooms in the forest, reach out to people who are very knowledgeable about mushrooms. They better be true experts. In some places around the world you can find guides, who offer paid excursions and will teach you to recognise edible mushrooms.

Try to learn one or two very common varieties of edible mushrooms and pick only those. Make sure you know all the poisonous doppelgängers of this varieties. So you can distinguish poisonous mushrooms from edible ones.

Never ever except mushrooms other non-experts collected, for example while camping or from your neighbours.

There are so many accidents and even death caused by consuming poisonous mushrooms each year. It’s even possible to consume a deadly mushroom by accident, for example by accepting a dish someone made with fresh or dried self-picked mushrooms. Or when children eat a mushroom in the forest when not supervised. Poisonous mushrooms and edible mushrooms can look a lot alike so you might eat a poisonous mushroom even if you are pretty sure you know what you are doing.Be especially careful when you are far away from the hospital and cannot seek immediate help if something goes wrong. If you cannot afford going to the hospital, this is one more reason for not eating wild mushrooms.

Here is the video depicting some of the poisonous mushrooms you should not be eating. But there are so many more poisonous mushrooms out there.

For the ones who came for the raw food recipes, consuming wild mushrooms raw is not safe for so many reasons. Better even thinking about eating wild mushrooms raw at all.


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Grapes of all colors

It’s grape season and we got all kinds of grapes available at our organic store. Grapes taste amazing and are easy for a snack before or after lunch for us.

As we are ordering all our produce online at the moment, it’s sometimes hard to tell which grapes are going to taste amazing and which ones are going to be just sour. Usually it’s a 50-50 chance. And this time, the green grapes are sour and the darkest grapes are the sweetest. The red ones are kind of in between but still super tasty. Just not as sweet.

It’s always been a dream of mine to grow my own grapes, but it’s gonna be hard to do in Germany. The harvest varies between the years greatly. On average, it’s one in three years of a good grape harvest, so we have to rely on imported Spanish or Italian grapes most of the time.

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grapes

Raw vegan recipes with organic grapes.

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green peas

Raw vegan recipes with organic peas

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Rohkost-Suppen

Einfache Mixersuppen ohne viel schnippeln. Die Suppen sind leicht bis cremig und proteinreich. Natürlich mit Einkaufshilfe, so findest du alle Zutaten noch schneller. Schau dir das Buch hier genauer an. Du wirst mehr gesundes bio Gemüse essen, ganz einfach und lecker ohne riesige Salate essen zu müssen.

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asparagus

organic asparagus raw vegan recipes with asparagus

Raw vegan recipes with organic asparagus


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mint

Raw vegan recipes with organic mint.
Raw vegan recipes with organic mint.

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persimmons

Persimmons are my favorite winter fruits. When the persimmon season is approaching, I hardly can wait to buy the fruit by the box.

Kaki Rohkostrezept Smoothie mit Bio saft.

We found these amazing persimmon, in the photo above, at an organic farmers’ market in Los Angeles. They tasted like sweet cinnamon apples before they were ripe. Later, when they were completely soft, they tasted like a sweet cinnamon pudding.

Kaki Rohkostrezept Smoothie mit Bio saft.

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organic persimmons and recipes with persimmons

Etwa zwei Monate lang kann ich Kaki und Sharon diese täglich essen, bis ich diese irgendwann nicht mehr sehen kann.

organic persimmons and recipes with persimmons

There are few breakfasts that I don’t want to eat after a while, but persimmons are definitely one of them. I try to enjoy them for as long as I can with them.

There is a time when there are a lot of very cheap organic persimmons and I like to start making recipes with persimmons. I like smoothies and puddings with persimmons best.

Since I eat persimmon like many other fruits with the skin on, I only buy organic persimmons in health food stores or organic mail order companies.

When we travel to California or Spain, we always buy persimmons from the organic market directly from organic farmers.

organic persimmons and recipes with persimmons

                                  

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coconut flour

raw vegan recipes with coconut flour
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BBQ spice mix

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nori sheets

Raw vegan recipes with nori sheets.

Die Nori sind wahrscheinlich geröstet.
Es gibt Rohkostnori bei lifefood, sehr teuer, ich kaufe mal solche, mal solche.

Raw vegan recipes with nori sheets.
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Raw vegan recipes with nori sheets

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Fish seasoning

Organic vegan fish spice mix for seasoning raw vegan dishes.

fish spice mix | vegan

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4 parts dried
2 parts
2 parts getrockneter
2 parts
2 parts
2 parts
1 part
alspice
2 parts
lemon powder
2 parts
wakame, optional
2 parts
smoked salt, optional
Grind all the ingredients in a coffee grinder until fine.
Zitronenpulver ist getrocknete und zermahlene Zitronenfrucht, plus die gelbe Zitronenschale. Nicht aber das Weiße der Schale. Ich trockne immer den Rest einer übriggebliebener Zitrone im Dehydrator, wenn dieser sowieso mal läuft. Karotte trockne ich ebenso wenn übriggebliebe nach dem Entsaften.

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Stop motion animation in Photoshop

Making my first stop motion video for instagram, I went on Youtube for help and found very helpful stop-motion tutorials.

Here’s my example of simple stop motion I made with some grapes I had at hand. Tethering the camera and using artificial light it turned out pretty decent for beginners stop motion. I say use that official late, I had very little post processing which I didn’t thoroughly in Lightroom. I definitely recommend using artificial light when you try filming stop motion for the first time.

Here is a nice straightforward tutorial made by Photoshop. It’s a little bit older, but all the functions are pretty much similar to the current Lightroom and Photoshop versions. Here in the tutorial you can see how the light is jumping a little bit. You can avoid it using artificial light and making sure you don’t come in between the subject and artificial light so you don’t create any shadows.



Steps for your easy and quick stop motion production:

Here is a good video for the setting up the subject and the camera

Prep the subject for the stop motion animation

  • the background and the parts that are not moving should be fixed
  • you can use double sided tape for plates, and regular tape for the backdrop

Prep the light for the stop motion animation

  • I prefer using a continuous light source
  • I would shoot at night or close all the blinds to avoid changing natural light
  • I would place the light in a way, so I don’t come in between the light and my subject while animating
  • I would wear something black to avoid reflecting light onto my subject

Prep the camera for the stop motion animation

  • my camera is on a very steady tripod or handing from an overhead stand
  • I have my camera on a power adapter so my battery does not to be replaced

Prep the tethering software for the stop motion animation

  • I connect the camera to my computer and open the EOS tethering software
  • there are expensive stop motions software a beginner does not need
  • I’ve heard you can shoot directly to lightroom, but have not tried it yet
  • I adjust the software and the camera settings and shoot automatically all my frames
  • I calculated the frames I need (80-200) and shoot the frames with a 5-10 sec delay
  • it’s much faster to take the pictures in a preset automated intervall, so I don’t have to take each frame manually
  • as for the settings, I would set the focus and disable autofocus to avoid an movement of the lens
  • white balance and any other variables should be fixed
  • my ISO is depending on a light source low (100-250), aperture at f5-f7, and the speed can be as low as 15/s as I’m using a tripod

Shoot the stop motion animation sequence

  • move the elements you want to animate in small increments in between each take
  • for 1 second of a final video you will need 10-25 frames = takes
  • you can make your video longer by repeating the sequence multiple times, or playing your stop motion in reverse after playing it normally
  • calculate the moves/distance of the moves accordingly

Edit images for the stop motion animation in Lightroom

  • I start with editing just one image in LR
  • I crop it (9:16 or 16:9)
  • I adjust the white balance and the colors
  • then I synchronise the settings of the image to all images

Transfer to Photoshop

  • in LR, I select all the images and go to Photo > Edit in > Open as Layers in Photoshop
  • it can take couple of minutes

Edit the stop motion animation in Photoshop

  • go to Window > Timeline
  • in the dropdown select create frame animation
  • click the button to create
  • select all layers
  • in the menu on the right change the order if needed (reverse)
  • adjust the speed of the frames by selecting a few or all and change the duration

Export the stop motion animation

  • export the video or the gif
  • File >Export > Render Video

Masking out parts, that moved, but should not have

Sometimes parts get moved accidentally, or due to poor planning I didn’t keep the whole picture in mind and I’ll have to clean up the frame. Here’s a good example of a quick cleanup

Here’s some more complex masking tutorial for the case you want to have only few parts of the image moving and the rest of the image being still. It’s a deal if your house door and it the background of the image or some other parts that are not as perfect as you wish them so be.

Here’s a pretty horrible old tutorial but it has many creative techniques and combining of a video and stop motion into one clip. Can you can see tons of problem with the light and background you might wanna fix in your video.

Great tips and techniques to make you stop motion perfect, smooth, and beautiful.

Create stop motion using only 2 photos (before-after) by exposing small parts step by step

More Info on this page here

kohlrabi

Raw vegan recipes with kohlrabi.

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Beetroot recipes, raw and vegan

Beetroot recipes, raw and vegan


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