MEDICAL CORNER …. Eating healthier and cheaper!!

~~February 12, 2015~~ 

Why Grow Food?

Growing your own food at home makes sense.

The benefits include the following

Your organic, home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs are fresher, more nutritious and more delicious than conventionally farmed fruit, vegetables and herbs.

Most fruit and vegetables lose nutritional value when they are stored for lengthy periods, or when they are being transported from interstate or overseas. Chemical preservatives are also applied, which do nothing for your health.

The fruit and vegetables in supermarkets have been bred for appearance, a long shelf life and resistance to bruising during transport. The fruit and vegetables best to grow in your own back yard, on the other hand, have been bred for being nutritious and delicious.

You don’t have to worry about the prices of vegetables, herbs and fruits continuing to rise.  The best way to ensure food security for you, your family and your neighbors is to source, and even better to grow, your own food locally.

Pride of produce – showing off doesn’t get better than this. Experience the warm glow of knowing you grew that whole salad or vegetable stew yourself!

Food gardening is a gentle, relaxing and stress-lowering form of exercise.

Home food production connects you with the seasons and the cycles of nature. Tomatoes taste better not only fresh of the plant, but when you have to wait for them!

You have reduced your carbon footprint by reducing the food miles of what you eat.

Did you know that the growing, processing, packaging, storing and transporting of what we eat make up 37% of the average eco-footprint?  Freshly eaten home-grown food produces no green house emissions. Your home-grown food travels meters instead of hundreds or thousands of kilometers.

Your organically home-grown food is clean – free from genetic modification, chemical pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

You are improving the health of America’s soils and waterways by not creating demand for agricultural chemicals and practices that negatively effect soils, waterways and our fragile environment.

You are saving water. Common agricultural practices have been shown to use water extremely inefficiently. Home grown food uses significantly less water relative to the amount of food harvested.

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http://www.veryediblegardens.com/iveg/why-grow-food

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~~How to Plant a Vegetable Garden~~

~~Uploaded on May 22, 2009~~

Grow some of your own food by starting a vegetable garden. You’ll eat better and save money.

We ALL are ONE!! 

Thoughts for today …. #62!!

~~November 30, 2014~~

Organic food was the only option for thousands of years. Now, with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and genetically-modified foods, organic is still the best option.

Genetically-modified foods were unleashed on the environment and the public by corporations like Monsanto without prior testing to determine their safety. In other words, eating genetically-modified foods (which most people in in large amounts) is participating in a long-term, uncontrolled experiment. Choose organic to avoid participating in this experiment.

The Cornucopia Institute, through research and investigations on agricultural and food issues, provides needed information to family farmers, consumers and other stakeholders in the good food movement and to the media. We support economic justice for the family-scale farming community – partnered with consumers – backing ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food.

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~

http://www.cornucopia.org/

~~RELATED~~

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/17-essential-reasons-to-eat-organic-food.html#ixzz3Kb1xeojG

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We ALL are ONE!! 

Google Doodle …. Rachel Louise Carlson!!

~~May 27, 2014~~ 

Google Doodles Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday

Google’s latest doodle marks the 107th birth anniversary of American marine biologist, author and conservationist, Rachel Louise Carson.

Born in 1907, Carson’s work was mainly focused in the fields of marine biology, ecology, pesticides and nature writing. Rachel Louise Carson was also credited with bringing global attention to the problems associated with the conservation of the environment.

Rachel Louise Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania and studied at the Chatham University and, later, the John Hopkins University. Her research into the harmful effects of pesticides on marine life came after studying the synthetic pesticides developed during the Second World War.

The doodle shows Rachel Louise Carson, standing amidst a vast expanse of marine and plant life and birds with a notebook, a backpack and a pair of binoculars.

Google is written in the middle in a calligraphic font.

Carson’s first book, The Sea Around Us, released in 1951 and was a bestseller. It also won her the US National Book Award. Her three books, The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955) and Silent Spring (1962) were described as the Sea Trilogy.

Silent Spring (1962) was a landmark as it led to the reversal of the policy on the use of pesticides.

Rachel Louise Carson’s efforts were concentrated towards the direct ban of DDT. While she didn’t live to see that, in the year 1972 the Environmental Defense Fund and other allied groups succeeded in securing a phase out of the pesticide. It also led to the formation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1962 in the US.

Rachel Louise Carson passed away in 1964, after having been weakened with her treatment for breast cancer she encountered a respiratory infection and eventually suffered a fatal heart attack on April 14, 1964.

Rachel Louise Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom posthumously by President Jimmy Carter.

~~QUOTES~~

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” 
~Rachel Carson~

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” 
~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring~

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 
~Rachel Carson~

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.” 
~Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us~

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” 
~Rachel Carson~

~~SOURCES~~ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

https://hrexach.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/silent-spring-rachel-carson/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/05/27/rachel-louise-carson-google-lets-fly-a-doodle-true-to-environmental-writers-nature/

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/553716/20140527/google-doodle-rachel-louise-carson-green-movement.htm#.U4TISfldXVo

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15332.Rachel_Carson

~~Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday Google Doodle 2014~~

~~Published on May 26, 2014~~

Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th Birthday Google Doodle 2014.

We ALL are connected through NATURE!!

We ALL are ONE!!