Aloha's herb shaker: For healthy lifestyle

SO MUCH for the use of salt and pepper as table-side condiments. Aloha Garden introduces another organic product, now helping "salty-tongue" reach the same goal while also supplying key nutrients as an effortless way to improve one's healthy lifestyle -- the herbs shaker.

With one full of herbs organically planted at the garden of Aloha in Mahayag, Bunawan, Davao City, herb shaker will soon land in one of the city's restaurants, Backyard Burgers.

"We have a partnership with Backyard Burgers, maybe next week or two our herb shaker will be featured in the restaurant," Francis "Koko" Sajulga shared with excitement about their new endeavor.

Sajulga, a passionate agriculturist, said that coming up with a herb shaker is a long way of trial and error experiment for about three months. He experimented the said product with his wife, Donna Sajulga and his five employed gardeners.

"We had really undergone a delicate process of making this herb shaker, from air drying, curing, grounding and mixing," he said, adding that it requires patience and perseverance.

The herb shaker is a blend of all the herbs found at Aloha Garden such as tarragon, hybrid basils, rosemary, among others. With it, the taste of a dish will be spiced up through the aroma of the organic herbs ingredients.

The making of Herb Shaker

Air Drying: Within a six-day period, the herbs will be placed in a room with proper ventilation, indirect sunlight exposure and proper humidity.

"Air drying will retain the herbs quality of being organic and natural, kahit na dry na siya we make sure that the smell and aroma is still fresh," Sajulga said.

Curing: An old-fashioned way, curing the herbs by placing it inside a glass jar or brown plastic bag for at least three days will enable the herbs to settle down its moisture and heighten its aroma.

Grounding and Mixing: Now, the perfect time has come to pulverized and ground the herbs into tiny little pieces and mix it with a healthy salt dubbed as "Kosher salt."

"Making the herbs shaker entails a 10-day delicate process but it is all worth it," Sajulga said.

At present, offering a wide array of culinary herbs that come in packs and potted plants namely tarragon, rosemary, hybrid basils, turmeric, peppermint, spearmint, and silantro, among others, Aloha practices a "compost tea" method in gardening, which utilizes an effective, low-strength, natural fertilizer for seedlings and garden plants. It can suppress fungal plant diseases.

The tea brewing process, Sajulga said, extracts and multiplies nutrients and beneficial bacteria and fungi from the wastes called rabbit dung, goat dung, among others and suspend it in the water then spray it to the plants. The process is called foliar spraying. (ASP)

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