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Our mission is to provide sanctuary for the monarch butterfly. Happy Tonics' puipose is to promote organic gardening, the importance of seed saving, and open pollination for biodiversity. The educational Web site is dedicated to teaching about the risks of invasive species and genetic engineering to the food supply, and  their impact on the environment, other species, indigenous and native crops, and health. 
We provide educational  lectures, a film, and CD photo presentations on organic gardening, the plight of the monarch butterfly, and food safety issues. We offer milkweed seed to promote the planting of milkweed in order to provide food for the monarch. Milkweed is the host plant, and the insect is dependent upon this plant for its survival.

Editor:         Mary Ellen Ryall
Webmaster:   Zot

Carrot Phytochemicals Aid Health

    Recently, the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry announced that carrots contain a phytochemical that helps protect the plants against disease.
  The newly discovered phytochemical is called falcarinol.  Falcarinol  may help protect humans too, against cancer.
  Phytochemicals are extremely small. About 200 phytochemicals have been discovered so far.
  Carrots also contain another phytochemical called beta-carotene, which may reduce the risk of cardio-vascular

disease.
  With advancement in technology, it is now possible to study phytochemicals in foods.
  Phytonutrients are the new nutrients and well worth paying attention to.  Macronutrients keep us alive. Phytonutrients may help keep us well.   

Organic carrots,
Happy Tonics gardens.
Photo by Mary Ellen Ryall.