Amen, Grzbear!

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"That would indicate to me that most food based nutritional studies, especially single focused ones, would have little validity a generation or two down the road due to the food and the subjects of the study, which would make some sort of genetic adjustment to compensate, good or bad."

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A few years ago, someone who should know said, it would take 75 bowls of today's spinach to give the same amount of iron that was contained in a bowl of 1931 ('36?) spinach.

That, of course, means that the growing soil has been depleted ever since...we are taking off the crops faster than rain and soil micro-organisms can replenish the minerals, by leaching more from the sand particles in the soil...which takes time...and wild plants...and 'lying fallow'.

When I was a kid, the only big university nearby had a great agricultural school, and they were broadcasting the merits of letting land lie fallow, perhaps in a rotation cycle, and the appropriateness of tilling WITH the contours of the land.

I haven't heard a peep about either of these things since. You don't suppose that all the farmers are doing it all correctly, do you?

One of the biggest complaints I read, from farmers, is the size of their indebtedness to banks, chemical suppliers, and feed suppliers. ...And the limitations of their sales by regulating bodies. Somebody has fooled somebody, I think.

So, we grow our own, on unspoiled land. Or, on land that has been unused the longest...working WITH all the laws of Nature we can.

I am anxious to know more about no-till growing. Knowing what crops complement each other, and growing them at exactly the right times, together, makes sense to me.

We could all hire one master gardener to supervise the management of our backyard plots...maybe from a newspaper column, or by email bulletin. ...Just as long as he/she were an independent thinker.

Thanks for watching, reading, thinking, and sharing.

fledgling