Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Lively Soil - Better Food - Improved Health?

It's a bit frosty in the garden this morning … a good time to sit down with a cup of coffee and check out what's happening on the web. Enjoyed this article written by Daphne Miller, a family physician, writer, and associate professor at U.C. San Francisco. She sees a connection between healthy soil and healthy bodies. Her latest book is Farmacology: What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health and Healing (William Morrow, 2013)

"Thinking of a healthy body as an extension of a healthy farm, and vice versa, is a paradigm shift for many of us. But when we consider that all of our cells get their building blocks from plants and soil then, suddenly, it all makes sense. In fact, it is not too much of a stretch to say: We are soil."

Here's the link to the entire article from Yes! magazine, Winter 2014 edition: The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt

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