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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: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 15:26:22 -0500

So explain Inuit living for the past 10,000 years or so on the Arctic Ice
eating only seal and whale meat/fat.

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:55 PM, "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

>
> Absolutely right Paul but vitamin C (and a few other things like folate)
> must come from a plant source since no meat will have enough of it. Nobody
> can live without vitamin C for very long but just about every plant will
> have it.
> john
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> 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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