Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Have to add this, Harvey - since getting into Michael Pollan's book In
Defense Of Food, Weston Price makes a lot more sense to me. And that's
agreeable to my partner  since she grew up cooking immigrant Italian, real
food, from her mother. Now if I can just grow enough to keep some for
ourselves instead of selling it all ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/26/2008 at 2:17 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>>
>> The trouble
>>   is there is so much advice about what to eat and what not, what pills
>to take
>>   or what exercise to do. Which leads to a creeping suspicion that much
>of
>>   it is not serious.  ~Dieter
> 
>This is always the kicker--people have grown weary with so much 
>contradictory theory, so many gurus trying to get rich pushing a fad.  
>Information fatigue, theory fatigue, fad fatigue, magic-bullet fatigue. 
>Where can we find a solid guiding principle to help us sort it all out?
>
>I'm really impressed with the work Weston A. Price did, 14 studies of 
>indigenous peoples the world over, all of them enjoying almost perfect 
>health, before their inundation by Western foods. Seems to me *that's* 
>the key--finding out how people eating the same way their ancestors did 
>for thousands of years, without access to industrial foods, innocent of 
>theories about what are wise or stupid ways to eat--managed to enjoy a 
>level of health we can only dream of. Then use the fundamental 
>characteristics of those diets as a guide to our own eating.
>
>For starters: Whole, natural foods rather than ersatz, highly 
>manipulated imitations. The wholesomeness of traditional fats, in lieu 
>of the fats in supermarket food today (some of which didn't even exist 
>in our grandparents' day). Microbes, far from being a threat to food, 
>can be beneficial. The critical importance of "supercharging" young 
>people of reproductive age with nutrients, especially pregnant and 
>lactating mothers.
>
>For starters:  http://westonaprice.org/
>
>~Harvey
>
>
>-- 
>Harvey in northern Va
>www.themodernhomestead.us
>
>"Can't you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead?
>They're gonna wash this planet clean, like the Bible said.
>Now you can hold on steady, try to get ready,
>But everybody's gonna get wet--
>Don't think it won't happen just because it hasn't happened yet!" 
>(Jackson Browne)
>
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