Date:   11/14/2006 8:11:27 AM ( 19 y ago)
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I haven't read the same information and discussions that you have, Grz, but I do remember reading that over-cooking vegetables, such as cabbage, apparently releases more sulphur. Which is why it tastes so flat, 'brown', etc.

I then connected it to my childhood desire for lightly steamed cabbage, with butter.

My impoverished grandmother surprised me by remembering, and giving me that for my supper.

56 years later, my husband and I love to dine on this delicacy from time to time.

Yet a friend from Taiwan told me, in their restaurant, that the scent of slowly simmering cabbage (for 10-hour broth), reminded her of her childhood. Perhaps the fact that it doesn't get too hot maintains some nutrition; or that the long cooking period releases more minerals. I have read that cabbage was once the only green vegetable that sustained the Chinese over the winter.

I don't know why I launched into my stories of cabbage, except, I think, the mention of sulphur.

The other point you make, about mineral depletion of the soil, puts me in mind of my firm conviction that growing soil MUST 'lie fallow' for some period, to allow water and soil organisms to leach more minerals from the sand and rock particles in the ground.

This is particularly true when plants are grown for food that is shipped far away. If we don't poop back onto our growing soil, we rob ourselves of nutrition. (Composting is important here, I think, and freedom from chemical pollutants, medications, etc. would be my guess.)

I've recently heard of a Japanese man's development of 'no-till' farming. He just scatters seeds of two different types of plants, chosen to complement each other in their seasons. One grows more slowly than the other, providing groundcover and raising the watertable from far below...down where the groundwater is gathering fresh minerals from rock and sand.

This is somewhat the same as Mr. Nasr of Brazil has discovered in restoring damaged land by hand-planting clumps of local grasses and weeds, and then growing vegetables among them. There is no need for 'fertilizer'. Mr. Nasr is a Fellow of Ashoka. See http://www.ashoka.org and http://www.ashoka.org/node/3375

I hope there are some thoughts here for you.

fledgling
 

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