Well, you can grow wheatgrass - just plant your wheat berries (regular old cheap hard red wheat, hard white, soft white, spelt, anything wheat will do as long as it hasn't had something else done to it first). I use a plastic planting tray filled with soil, and sprinkle a bit over the top of the seeds after wetting things down good.
Takes about a week to get it tall enough to cut anything. I'm always impatient, cut it too soon, mostly because I forget to replant until the old tray is almost done for, and I can't wait any longer for the new batch! But it grows faster than I use it, so its all good! A pair of kitchen scissors to give it a haircut helps, though my son prefers a knife - I think its a guy thing.
I use a good sized handful, and throw it in the blender with a cup of milk, and a banana, and blend the heck out of it. It takes a LONG time to get it smooth (the older the grass, the longer it takes to break it up). If it is a soft limey green color (a little lighter than mint ice cream) when you are done, you got it right - it turns greener the finer the grass is blended. If you can still see pieces, it is not done.
Wheatgrass can be used basically two ways... Juiced, or masticated. Traditionally was either juiced or chewed well. So blending it to death in a shake is the equivalent of being well chewed up. I know other people who do shakes the same way, because we were all too cheap to buy a wheatgrass juicer. Takes less grass this way too.
The stuff tastes like you are grazing on the lawn (not that I ever have, but you know...). You do get used to it. Milk and banana are about the best combo I've found, I don't like it so well in fruit juice, and it blends up better in something sort of thick, seems to trap the strands better so they get cut instead of just slipping past the blades.
I've been using this for about a year (one of the first major things I did to counteract nutritional deficiency from malabsorption). Counts as two veggie servings, is very cheap, and gives you a lot of nutritional punch, in a form that even I can get something out of.
Of course, if I'm pregnant, I do sometimes have to take a breath and chug it and then hope I don't chuck...
I plan on putting kefir in it instead of milk - If I don't end up liking the kefir, I figure it won't make the wheatgrass shake taste a whole lot worse, and I can just chug it every morning until I get used to the stuff.
Wheatgrass is also good for rabbits, chickens (cut it up fine so it looks like chopped chives - chicks can have it from a week or so old), ducks, goats, and probably anything else I'll try to raise.
