"The only way today we can guarantee our foods are not pesticided, irradiated, herbicided, or GMO is to grow our own food."
Gabriel Cousens, MD, the creator of Tree of Life Foundation in Arizona and the author of such wonderful books as "Conscious Eating" and "There Is Cure for Diabetes",
states that learning to grow your own food is absolutely essential.
With constant food recalls, salmonella contamination, and now Swine
Flu, learning why we need to grow our own food is of utmost importance.
Here are just a few reasons why growing our own food is an important step towards great health and also independence:
Food is grown in nutrient/ mineral deficient soils (even organic)!
It's
a fact. Our soils are depleted and depleted soils do not produce
healthy, nutrient-rich plants. It's also a fact that crops produced in
depleted soils are more prone to the invasion of insects, viruses,
fungi, etc. Much of the modern world is now aware that our
industrialized methods of farming have depleted the soils and created a
cycle that requires pesticides to protect the unhealthy crops grown on
depleted soils.
Prior to the 1800s, farmers fertilized their
crops with organic substances. But modern, economic-based agriculture
has virtually replaced all of the critical organic complexes with
inorganic fertilizers, which cause toxicity in water runoff and further
imbalance the delicate nature of our soils.
