Topic specialties: Organic Solutions to a Broken Food System Transition from Conventional Ag Production to a Certified Organic Approach Organic No - till: Blending the best of
both worlds Soil Health: The promise for tomorrow
Topic specialties: Organic Solutions to a Broken Food System Transition from Conventional Ag Production to a Certified Organic Approach Organic No - till: Blending the best of
both worlds Soil Health: The promise for tomorrow
Not exact matches
Organic food company Cascadian Farm and parent company General Mills have announced a five - year, $ 125,000 contribution to Grain Millers, one of the
world's largest conventional and organic oat millers, to support
soil health research in the Upper Midwest.
It would feed the 650 MW CPV Valley Energy Center that would contaminate the
soil, air, and water of New York's
world famous Black Dirt Region and cradle to grave would emit 20 Million Tons of CO2e annually, resulting in public
health and climate change crises of a cataclysmic magnitude.
The
soil from deserts and dry lands is key to the
health of the
world's oceans, as it is the most important source of iron and other nutrients.
A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in
soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the
world's largest silver deposit, may put residents at risk of non-cancer
health illnesses.
Conventional agricultural systems are depleting the
health of the
soil (1/3 of the
World's farm land is now barren because of
soil degradation) and limiting the availability of vital nutrients to crops, inevitably dwindling our well - being.
Today we can eat food from around the
world — we can make sure we get enough selenium by eating a brazil nut or two (kidneys are also a good source of selenium), we can get enough iodine from iodised salt or seaweed (selenium and iodine are the most important deficiencies in New Zealand, because of local
soil conditions), and if we eat wholefood from a variety of sources — e.g. meat, a little organ meat (once or twice a week), nuts & seeds, seafood, vegetables, and dairy (or bone broth if you don't tolerate dairy, two or three times a week)-- this will supply enough nutrition for optimum
health.
We live in a
world with many
health problems relating to poor diet (including maternal, pre-birth or conception), use of antibiotics, vaccine damage, toxins in our air, water and
soil, etc..
Many people believe that mineral depletion in the
world's farming
soils has seriously reduced the amount of natural minerals in the average diet necessary to maintain a state of good
health.
Joining Peter Greenberg on the program will be Judy Schwartz, Author of Water in Plain Sight, who speaks about the
soil health movement in Bismarck, and why people from all over the
world are traveling to North Dakota to see how they maintain their ecosystem.