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tri-colored nigerian dwarf goat with blue eyes by artist and poet Sharon Cummings. Haiku in post.

What Your Food Ate How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health

Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.

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The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction – and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.

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It's just occurred to me that in medicine, we have clinical trials that consider the effect of a drug on the whole system - a whole human body. If you get a brain tumour from a kidney treatment, they'll notice.

But for food/farming, that's not the case. We never do trials on the whole system - the natural environment. It's only ever local - effects on yield in one field. And maybe that's why modern food systems cause problems, for the climate, human health etc.

The autumn harvest of the bright orange Pumpkins is a festive time of year as both Thanksgiving and Halloween are just around the corner here in Ontario! The black and white version is complimentary to the vintage wood wagon with wooden wheels and spokes.
Old Farm Wagon And Pumpkins Black And White here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/old-farm-wagon-and-pumpkins-black-and-white-debbie-oppermann.html

Black and white old farm wagon with stone foundation on barn and pumpkins