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Quality Fresh Food
What is quality food? Qualities of food that heal. Supporting your local "Joe the Farmer" at the Farmers' Market or growing some of your own food.
Date: 2/28/2005 9:07:55 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1305 times It is 3 AM Sunday, and I just woke up excited about going to the Farmers' Market in the morning. The Farmers' Market is like my Sunday church. I spend lots of time at home these days during the week. The Farmers Market is one of the few consistent times each week that I get to see my Farmer friends, as well as fill the refrigerator with foods that heal.
I am just now starting to digest foods that for months I was unable to digest, so my mind is excited about buying some of the foods that are treats: luscious fresh fruits, as well as fresh greens.
I remember years ago attending a healing festival at a place called Healing Waters in Eden Arizona. That was back in the late 70's. I remember one time hearing Dr. Christopher, who was instrumental in inspiring Dr. Schultz. Another time I heard a doctor speak about Therapeutic quality food, in other words, foods that could get the kind of results that we read about in all the books of the last century.
Many of the remedies for example in Dr. Bernard Jensen's books were based on bio-chemical balances of foods grown on trace mineral rich soils. They were more than "Virtual" foods--a tomato was really a tomato!
Many of the foods we get from our top health food stores go through the warehouse system. The vitality of these foods is already beginning to leave them.
One of my friends at our local Hillcrest Farmers' Market in San Diego is Joe Rodriguez Jr. He is the central character in my children's story "Joe the Farmer," The story of the farmer who never, never gave up!"
Joe has taught me a lot about fresh food.
The lettuce that Joe brings to the market was picked at the lastest, the day before it goes to market. It is food so fresh it does not know it has been picked yet. It is food that belongs in an art gallery. I would like to see someone make a video about an ambulence that shows up Joe's Lettuce patch, harvests his many varieties, and then rushes to get the foods to the market so it is still fresh for the people who really need it.
Years ago, Joe would sell his lettuce to a distributor who then sent it to a warehouse, who then sent it to a health food store. By the time it was on the shelf, it was already at the same stage that most of Joe's fresh lettuce was considered ready for the compost.
Fresh food is critical to get the kind of healing needed for
extreme conditions, the kind of results that we read about in some of the books of old where they talk about various foods and what they are intended to do for the body, and what elements they are intended to have.
These kind of foods belonged to another age and consciousness. The growing of foods like this again
belongs to another "crop" of health seekers who know
that their bodies will not settle for anything less than this
quality.
One of my Favorite farmers, Dennis Stowell, says he is more concerned with how much nutrition he can grow her acre than how much production he can grow per acre. This August Dennis will be growing red, orange, and yellow organic watermelons that will be served at the Hilton San Diego Bay resort for an International Feng Shui Conference. I am helping to coordinate those foods getting into the Hilton kitchen.
So how are you going to get the quality of foods you need for the kind of healing and loving attention your body is asking for? The choice is pretty clear. If you live in an area where there are local organic farmers, make sure you know who they are, and make sure you are buying your foods from them.
There is something very healing in knowing who is growing the foods you are eating. There is something very healing is giving your money directly into the hand of the farmer who calls you by name who you know by name.
If it is impossible to go to an Farmers' Market, get one of the books that are popular about growing some of your own vegetables as well as growing some of your own sprouts.
You can read up on this in Dr. Bernard Jensen's book's "Health Magic Through Chlorophyll from Living Plant Life" or "Survive This Day." I have to say I helped him write both of these books when I was one of his patients years ago.
There are lots of other books out there that can get you started growing your own sprouts, and learning how to put some seeds in the ground.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, the man who put together The Essene Gospel of Peace" has an old book called "Ecological Health Garden." He speaks about taking a beet, or a garlic, or an onion, planting it in a pot, and then harvesting the greens that will keep growing.
Not knowing who is growing your food is like being intimate with a stranger.
The first person who can grow some of your own food for therapeutic purpose is you. The second is a farmer you know on a first name basis. The next best source of fresh food is your local organic food coop, or health food store where you can encourage the food manager to find a way to get some "out of the box" food--grown by local farmers--into the store.
PS Please visit the Friend of the Farm website
mentioned at this link:
http://lesliegoldman.com/Friend-of-the-Farm/index.htm
You will see some of my other farmer friends.
Image Below:
Samantha, a member of the Rodriques
Family, shows off three kinds of their
organic lettuce, so fresh it does not know
it has been picked yet.
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