Re: Jessesmom, anyone, about 'bugs' in the garden...

I'd like to jump, here, to the question about 'bugs' in the garden or soil that may make us sick...

Do you think we can avoid them entirely?

I feel we can't.

A breeze may bring anything in the window, even into the most sterile home.


My dad used to say, "You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die."

(I never did figure out if that was cumulative, or all at once.)

Surely to goodness that obligatory peck of dirt contains SOMETHING we don't like.

And, where have our feet been BEFORE we pull on our socks?


I heard from a grocery store manager of one sad lady who shopped with plastic bags over her hands. She passed the items, herself, through the checkout, and bagged them.

I could only think that someone had told her that HER hands were 'dirty'. I wonder how she got the food into her mouth. That might have been a sight to see!


If you agree that we're going to encounter something, anyway, then why aren't we all dead in the streets by now?

And, if microbes and worms eat all our nutrition, how come the numbers of fat people are growing so rapidly?


At least one poster to CureZone, and a few websites, say that, if we eat soil micro organisms, right on our foods, those critters will zoom in on our mucoid plaque deposits, loosening them, and allow them to be on their way through our guts.

I read, a long time ago, that there are around 400 varieties of beneficial micro organisms in our digestive tracts.

That made me wonder how many varieties survived the Antibiotics and other things we've swallowed since. (I go back before Antibiotics , Dr. Salk, WW II, and DDT, but not before the industrial revolution began.)

I figure that all of us who are still breathing are pretty tough...and that our toughness must come from immunity...a strong body that knows what to do even when we aren't consciously aware of it.


If we go up in an airplane, we can see how big is the natural world...all of it, except our encampments and roads and dumps, lying fallow under weeds and grasses and every bush and tree that can make it...eating up carbon dioxide and spewing out oxygen. Wherever green growth is wild and lush, we can be sure no plow has set furrow.

Lakes and oceans we can't see into. Folks like Sylvia Earle tell us they are dying, NOT because of micro organisms, because we have been using our waterways for chemical dumps. Water travels so far. Two-thirds to three-quarters of this planet's surface is water. That's a heck of a big garbage dump, and all of it kept beautiful, in former times, by micro organisms, the base of the food chain.

(At one time the green-growing things in the oceans produced 70% of our oxygen. Now our oxygen is being burned up in internal combustion engines, too...our most expensive fuel. I cheekily wonder how fond we are of breathing.)

We create things like chlorine bleach, etc. to be sure our stuff is 'clean', not thinking of our grandbabies', or our own, oxygen supply.


If we need more beneficial micro organisms in our bodies, to do the work, and build our immune systems, the only way I can see to get them is to swallow them, from our finest gardens.

Personally, I'll use a basin of water to rinse off the grit, and to give some hope of getting the good critters into my stomach.

Otherwise, I''ll simply brush the radishes off on my jeans, and dare the grit.

Did you ever notice? Bears at the zoo take peanuts in the shell, whole, and delicately spit the shells...keeping the peanuts.

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