Jessesmom, anyone, about eating directly from the garden...

Reading, I keep coming across references to micro organisms from the soil as being useful in cleansing the digestive tract. Some are even cultured and sold.

The immune system apparently can protect us from anything 'else' that may be there.

This would seem to be in keeping with our background of thousands of years of eating habits.

One suggestion was that we 'wash' our food too much.

If it is a good idea to pick stuff and eat it, I have only one real objection...I dislike chewing grit.

The next thought was to shake off any grit and dust. I did that with some herbals I dried and crushed...rocking the final product in a smooth bowl to allow the finest grit particles to sink to the bottom, as one would panning for gold, only dry.

Then I was thinking about radishes...and I came up with this...

...Instead of rinsing the radishes with the garden hose, dip and rub them in a BASIN of water. That way, the grit will fall to the bottom of the basin, and some of the micro organisms will likely still cling to the radishes.

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One writer was saying that those micro organisms will rush to the bowel and begin chewing on stuck feces...loosening and moving them on their way out.


I read long ago that some 400 varieties of beneficial digestive critters may inhabit our digestive systems...and I can't help but think that some of them, in some of us, may be missing just now.

I know that, in the garden, plants don't grow without at least some micro organisms to do the work of carrying nutrients, in water, to roots. Plants take up and balance nutrients according to their ancient formulas, making those balanced nutrients available to us in food plants.

Micro organisms are invaluable...perhaps moreso than some excesses of water.

If there is a shortage of micro organisms in the soil, or if all the proper nutrients aren't there, plants, within limits, will create other substances from the nutrients available, just to keep the plant growing to create seeds.

Those plants then appear healthy, but may be stressed...and subject to blights intended to break them down into soil, once more.

This, I think, is the key to our own lack of nutrition...and maybe even to the breaking down of our immune systems.

Letting our growing soils lie fallow, under weeds and grasses, is the only way to cure that. Our great grandfathers knew that.


Anyway, I'll experiment with a basin in the garden. Maybe it will help.

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