Janet - my recipe clearly gives instructions on how to sprout in jars. Did you send for it? Having an automatic sprouter in our kitchen simply means we don't have to be at home at regular intervals to nursemaid our baby sprouts - we get fresh home-grown organic food year round for pennies, with no work on our part that the jars take. To me, my health is more precious than anything else in my life. Keith - blended fresh home-grown sprouts and greens are a nutritionally balanced food that works wonders in healing, it doesn't remotely look like or taste like snake oil. They give our cells the chemical molecules they need to do their job best. Kathrynne - your sig shows that you would clearly know that nutritional healing has reached the medical journals, e.g. Dean Ornish's work in heart disease, T. Colin Campbell's China Project, etc. I guess you must be referring to sprouts specifically? The bottom line of healing with living foods (that is, foods that are still growing when we eat them, e.g. sprouted beans and baby greens) is to try it ourselves - even reading of the successes of doctors like Ann Wigmore doesn't help, or reading the books of their patients. Please will you try the recipe for a month? Charlie - Ann Wigmore had two doctorates - in naturopathy (N.D.) and divinity (D.D.). So far as I recall, she describes being at the divinity college in her autobiography "Why Suffer?" However, whether or not she had degrees is not the point. It's whether her methods worked. And thousands of testimonial letters at the Ann Wigmore Foundation testify to the success of her methods. Dr. Wigmore devoted her life to healing very sick people, using living foods - she specialized in cancer. She wrote more than a dozen books (she died in a fire in 1994). Most of her books are published by Avery Publishers (800-548-5757). Her methods work. I am a living testimony to that. She saved my life. I would not be writing this today, if not for the miracle of her healing methods. Financial gain is not my motivation - you'll see from my web site that profits on the sprouter will go to micro-enterprises for "the poorest of the poor." The main reason for my post was to invite people to join my mail-list to learn about healing with living foods. This is all free. One of my biggest enjoyments in life is to share my knowledge and help people heal, as I was helped by Ann Wigmore (and by 9 years of studying biochemistry and physics books, and 26 years of books by doctors who specialize in healing with nutrition). Phil - rather than go to the National Council against Health Fraud to learn more about Ann Wigmore, why not read the books of her patients who were cured? E.g. Eydie Mae's "How I Cured Cancer Naturally" (breast cancer, completely cured) and Elizabeth Baker's "The Gourmet Uncook Book" (colon cancer, completely cured). These books are at most health food stores in New York and can be ordered on-line. >Abandon all hope, ye salesmen who enter here! If offering people a free mail-list to learn what to do, why to do it (biochemistry), and how to do it (recipes) for optimal health, is selling, then I plead guilty. Most of the time I experience it as a lot of fun, right now at nearly midnight after working all day on new year's day on my computer I'm experiencing it as exhausting, but I've never experienced it as selling! Hey Barb - what's wrong with planting the seeds as Nature intended and eating them? Sorry, I'm tired, and also over-hurt from being poked fun at as if I were not flesh and blood. Wendy - thanks for your little touch of support! Please will you try the recipe for a month and see what you experience? love, val http://www.gogreen.org - a business that cares - get computers to 'the poor' - when you get free of pain with Mother Nature.