Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

No strange mix at all Kate. Mostly hazel nuts with some walnuts, quite a few 
almonds and the very lonesome brazil nut. And I found it hard to believe 
myself that it freaked people out. Ten again nuts are only common in most 
shops here at haloween. This is also the only time we will see fresh 
coconuts in a few shops and I seem to be the only one buying them.

But thinking back...it must be nearly 20 years ago that my children walking 
to school picked blackberries along their way and some of their peers found 
this "gross" because they had learned at home that blackberries were ful of 
worms. Few people pick blackberries here and they are everywhere wild for 
the taking.

And we have seen people here who could not eat a fresh, free range egg 
because it was "too strong". Some people ask specially for well sprayed 
vegetables because they "would die" if they found an insect or a slug hiding 
under a leaf. And these are rural people. The cities are much better.
john

> I honestly find it very difficult to believe that anyone would be
> "freaked" by someone cracking nuts ... but maybe your friend brought
> something exotic.
>
> Whole pecans, walnuts, brazil nuts and almonds are all actually pretty
> common and you can get many of them at grocery stores, at least in the
> U.S.  I don't think so many generations have lapsed that people cannot
> fathom cracking nuts or - for that matter - shelling beans or pulling
> up potatoes (or peanuts).
>
> I can see where animal products are more removed from common
> interaction and the raw product could be daunting. But that is due to
> regulations that prohibit - or require pet-food labeling - of raw milk
> and egg products, not because people are too stupid figure out that
> eggs from a neighbor's chickens are probably healthier than the stuff
> at the grocery store.
>
> In fact, I don't know anyone who would take a grocery store egg over a
> fresh egg, and I have always lived in urban areas where people don't
> see chickens.
>
> - Kate
>
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:49 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
>
> > Sorry Paul, I don't believe there is actually a way back for these
> > "you
> > don't actually drink the milk do you" people. It is not just the egg
> > that
> > comes out of the back end of a chicken that freaks these people out.
> > I was
> > in hospital a few months ago and a visitor brought me nuts and a
> > nutcracker.
> > Soon after I found myself surrounded by 5 nurses and a young doctor
> > who
> > neither of them had ever seen anyone crack a nut and eat the inside.
> > It
> > freaked two of the nurses really out.
> > I am afraid this tendency has been going for 2-3 generations and
> > that it has
> > become seriously entrenched.
> > john
> >
> >
> > "You don't actually drink the milk do you?"The First Step Toward Food
> > Sovereignty: Bring Back Neighborhood Livestock http://tinyurl.com/3jqr54f
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> >
> >
> >
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