The beet was initially cultivated in the Mediterranean region, which makes it a natural fit for a heart-healthy Mediterranean diet.  While Greeks first cultivated beets for medicine (using just their greens, not the root), it was the Romans who began cultivating and eating the root for food.  When harvested, the entirety of the plant is edible, from the tips of its leaves, down to its long pointed root.  It is rumored that beets help to combat garlic breath and hangovers, can increase sex drive, and that cooled water from boiled beets can be massaged into scalps to reduce dandruff (but women in the Victorian Era also used beet juice to add red hues to their hair, so if you use beet water to cure dandruff, you may also accidentally color your hair!).
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The betalin compound in beets, which gives beets their color, helps capture toxins in the body and flush them out of the body through the urinary tract.

Seasonality: Humboldt County farmers are able to grow beets year round!

Storage
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Preservation  
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​Beet Hummus
(vegan)

Beet and Potato Salad
(vegan)

Braised Veggies
(vegan)

Hearty Salad
(can be made vegan)

Pickled Beet Vinaigrette
​(vegetarian)

Roasted Beets
(vegan)