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  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Two agricultures not one
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 9:19:51 -0700

I thought they also collected berries from the tundra at least in some places.

---- paul@oneseedling.com wrote:
> 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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