Taste Matters: We Process Our Vegetables the Same Way Savvy Home Cooks Do
The first of the three core principles that underlie all we do is increasing the vegetable diversity in your diet to include all the colors, growth habits and parts of the plant. This strategy assures that you will avail yourself of all the many disease-preventing nutrients that plants have to offer.
Can We Coax Extinct Species Back Into Existence?
About a dozen years ago I heard a farmer present the results of his work on his decades-old biodynamic farm in Australia. He showed slides of the massive pit they had dug in which they laid dozens of cow horns filled with manure, which were used to “enliven” the fields. He shared how they made the biodynamic preparations that are at the heart of the biodynamic process. These preps stimulated calcium uptake by the plants, as well as root and fruit development, and others strengthened the plants against various diseases. But the main thing that stuck with me were the slides he showed of an insect on his farm that had been declared extinct a decade earlier.
Calcium-Rich Cholla Buds Help Us Re-Connect to Traditional Ways
One of the first things one learns when switching to a traditional diet is that eating an authentic, traditional diet involves a lot more thought and preparation than one is typically used to. My guess is that most people decide what they are going to eat for their next meal either right before mealtime, or, at most, when they shop the day before. Not so when one eats a traditional diet.
Diversity, Soil and Plant Health Are Everything When It Comes to Health
The other day I saw an advertisement from the University of California at San Francisco medical center that invited us to imagine a world without disease. The ad’s message was that because of the diligence, innovation and bold experimentation going on at UCSF, we are on the verge of such a utopian existence.
You’re Helping Us Be a Healing Force in the World
Spring Gardening Tips and Tricks You Need to Know
This is my favorite gardening time of the year. Spring has finally arrived in Northern California, and the long, cold rains have abated. While the winter rains have stimulated a lot of weed growth, the garden has a fresh, new look, with young, healthy, vibrant plants that haven’t peaked yet.
Introducing Citrus Salt, Our Winter-Time Version of Pepper Salt
In the deep winter months, it can be difficult to eat seasonally. That's exactly what I was thinking about in mid-February. It was then that my little Meyer lemon tree finally produced a few lemons ripe enough to eat. So, I decided to make a salt similar to our Pepper Salt, but made in the opposite season.
The Tenacious and Hardy Burdock Root Helps Us Clear ‘Toxic Heat’
Modern medicine does not speak about disease or treatments in such descriptive terms. Rather, modern medicine tends to be all about measures and numbers rather than the experience of the ill person.
Our Horseradish Is a Descendant Of an Old European Variety
Ashitaba Makes Its Own Ketones, the Best Fuel for the Brain
Plants’ Life Energies Withdraw Into Their Roots in Winter
The Only Medicine a Human Being Needs
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