If you love making your own FRESH juices and you’re a gardener, you know the joy of juicing. This fresh broccoli juice combo is delicious and super charged with vitamins. Even if you’re not a gardener, buying fresh broccoli and other produce goodies to make your own juices just makes you feel darn good.

I am a gardener and sometimes I have good luck with one crop and not so much with others. You never know what the season will bring but in the thick of March, between winds shifting from freezing cold to actually being bearable you can almost always count on broccoli to be abundant.

Here’s a snap of my tiny brassica garden.

My broccoli is ready for picking and since there was so much of it this year, I decided to delve into making my own fresh juice.

Not bad for a first time growing broccoli, huh? These were all plants I purchased from a local nursery but I do believe next year I’ll take a shot at starting them indoors from seed. The friendly folks at the shop told me that the broccoli would be done just in time for planting sweet potatoes and as it turns out, they were right on.

If you’re frugal like me, there’s no need to throw those plants away once you’ve gotten your broccoli from them. There’s a lot of nutrition in the leaves and stalks and everything from root to leaf is edible or at least compostable.