Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

A growing interest of mine is using the simple, unprocessed food ingredients 
we can produce ourselves rather than obtain elsewhere. Food security goes 
beyond growing and it means being able to use it and benefit. For me now, 
this is also for health reasons. We'll grow and eat more of the antioxidants 
this year.

Seasonal is good, nourishing is good, but there's much more. Preserving or 
freezing can be necessary for out of season diet and avoiding the food miles. 
Food is more nourishing if it's more nutrient dense due to freshness or 
healthy growing. A sideline: Barb just showed me a Dr. Oz segment on the tube 
where they stated lycopene in tomatoes is better in tomato sauce. Anyone hear 
anything on that?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/17/2010 at 9:47 AM Carrie Shepard wrote: