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  • From: paul@oneseedling.com
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Two agricultures not one
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:13:14 -0500

Typically those people living in severe cold depend on vitamins and minerals
stored in animals that get their nutrients from the ocean and lands. These
people subsist on mostly meat.

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On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:06 PM, "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

>
> Exactly my point really Paul. But there are few onion greens or turnips in
> Siberia or Alaska in winter. There is always a way or there would be no
> people at these high latitudes.
> john
>
>> Onion greens, turnip and mustard greens, broccoli etc.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:41 AM, EJ <emj@uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> rose hips, black currants
>>>
>>> On 28/09/10 2:14 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Where do folks in the higher lattitudes get vitamin C in the winter, if
>>>>> not for oranges?) > Barbara M
>>>>> Foster, RI
>>>>
>>>> I remember when oranges where still relatively new in many parts of
>>>> Europe.They were nearly inedible for being so sour. So I would guess
>>>> that people in higher latitudes had other ways of getting vitamin C for
>>>> thousands of years before oranges reached them.
>>>> A tea/infusion made from pine needles did it for locals in the Arctic
>>>> region and they saved many an "explorer" from scurvy death with that.
>>>> john
>>>>
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