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Growing your own food
Things to consider
Pros
Improves health
Mental wellbeing
Connecting to nature
Increases life expectancy
Reduces risk of diseases
Vegetableatarian
Repairs damage caused by harmful foods by eating primarily vegetables
Cons
Improper nutrient density due to mineral composition
Dr. Pottengers cat-feeding studies
Proper feeding resulted in health - also reversed diseases induced by unhealthy eating
Poor soil conditions result in:
Poor hair growth
Weak nails
Loose teeth
Low energy
Other considerations
Avoid food with little intrinsic nutritional content
Some batces/lots can be more nutrient dense than others
Some foods have been devitalized
Why?
Food insecurity
How to combat it
"Resolve to be ready"
Be self-sufficient
Grow and preserve out own food
Heal our inner food systems
Together! Individual action is a start, more people are needed to enact change
Food dependence
Democracy fundamentals
What we eat
Political power
What is it?
Social justice issue
Issue of national security
Tied to energy, economy, environment, globalization and disenfranchisement
Environmental crisis
Fewer Americans involved in agriculture
Human power replaced by heavy fossil fuels
Hard economic times
The theory of anyway
We should change the way we live to reflect what we should be doing anyway
Live simply
Live frugally
Leave reserve for others
Connect with food and your community
How should you grow food?
Permaculture approach: design approach based on connecting disciplines, strategies and techniques
Principles
Observe
Connect
Catch and store (energy and materials)
Elements perform multiple functions
Each functions supported by multiple elements
Make the least change for the greatest effect
Use small scale intensive systems
Key people
Bill Mollison
Inspired by Tasmanian rain forest
David Holmgren
Work WITH the land
Less intervention the better
Care for it, it will care for you
Ecological gardening
Objective: restore natural cycles
Concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments
Uses natures interconnectedness as a model
Nature can be the gardens ally
Reduce pressure on the planets health
Combines natives, food plants, medicinal plants, culinary hervs, plants that build soil, etc.
Guilds
Multifunctional plants
Food plants that support insects/wildlife
Herbs that break up hard pan
Cover crops that are edible
Trees that add nutrients to the soil
Astyk, Sharon. Independence Days. New Society Publisher, 1 Nov. 2009, pp. 3–23.
Tohemenway. Gaia’s Garden : A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Pub, 2009, pp. 3–19.
Solomon, Steve, and Erica Reinheimer. The Intelligent Gardener : Growing Nutrient-Dense Food. Gabriola Island, Bc, Canada, New Society Publishers, 2013, pp. 9–36.