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FROM 2013: As with every such transition, the move from an industrial food diet to a homegrown, organic one is likely to occur in gradual stages. As people improve their gardening skills and devote more of their time and attention to sourcing healthy, natural foods from local growers and producers, they can slowly but surely eliminate the processed foods from their diets.
Flashback Show Notes
Episode 460 – The Future of Food
Corbett Report 2013 Data Archive (USB Flash Drive)
TRANSCRIPT:
The modern supermarket is less and less a place to purchase food for the household and more and more a warzone where shoppers have to negotiate a minefield of toxic chemicals and additives. From processed foods with their string of unpronounceable ingredients to the “fresh fruits and vegetables” saturated in pesticides to meat and dairy products from industrial farms where animals are raised on a diet of growth hormones and animal waste to the ever-present and ever-growing danger of GMO contamination of nearly everything, feeding healthy, nourishing food to your family is quickly becoming difficult, if not impossible, through the industrial food system.
Perhaps the worst part of this phenomenon is that, as specialist stores begin to cater to the demands of their economically comfortable clientele for fresh and organic foods and ingredients, it is the poorest members of society who are increasingly targeted by these health hazards.
AARON DYKES: There’s always lots of nice products standing out at the grocery store. This one caught my eye because it’s classy and it’s on sale and it’s filled with more GMO ingredients per item than just about anything I’ve seen.
Let’s take a look at Klass Horchata, which is a powdered drink mix. It’s got dextrose, sugar, titanium dioxide, maltodextrin, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (which may contain soybean, canola and/or palm oil). It’s got skimmed milk powder, artificial flavour, guar gum, silicone dioxide, aspartame, powdered cinnamon, rice flour, acelsulfame potassium and ascorbic acid and caramel color. And that’s far too many GMO ingredients, but it’s on sale and pitched . . . I’m going to go ahead and say, to a “certain” class.
SOURCE: Lower Income Grocery Store Features Items with Even More GMOs
For a generation that has been raised on processed foods and microwave dinners, it may be hard to imagine that any alternative to these products are available. For those who are interested in sourcing healthy alternatives to the chemical concoctions that pass for food these days, there are, as always, a host of excuses for why they can’t buck the status quo and say no to the food conglomerates that control so much of our modern food supply: It’s too expensive to buy fresh, organic foods. It’s too time-consuming to prepare foods from scratch. There isn’t enough time or space to grow your own fruits and vegetables.
Ironically, as more and more people fall through the cracks economically—with a record 47 million Americans now relying on food stamps to help keep food on the family table—the apathy and inertia around these issues is beginning to fade. In the last several years we have seen a resurgence in the concept of “victory gardens” and urban gardening generally as millions of people around the globe begin to rediscover the practicality—not to mention the simple joys—of growing their own food.
In fact, as some of these families have shown, the space limitations of urban environments need not be an impediment to the truly dedicated urban gardener.
REPORTER: Drivers whizzing past on the 210 freeway through Pasadena have no idea that a stone’s throw away from the fast lane is a lush but tiny Eden, a 4,000-square-foot farm. It not only feeds a family, but revolutionizes the idea of what can be done in a very unlikely place, the middle of a city.
JULES DERVES: This is city living. But I brought the country to the city rather than have to go out to the country. I just imported it.
REPORTER: 63-year-old Jules Derves started this backyard farm 10 years ago. It’s a deliberate throwback to the storied days of self-reliant rural America. Sustainable and dense, on their 4,000 square feet, they raise 400 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and edible flowers. 6,000 pounds a year, enough to feed themselves with plenty left over.
SOURCE: Urban Agroecoloy: 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban Homestead – Urban Permaculture
As study after study and report after report continues to confirm the dangers of modern chemical additives, pesticides and ingredients, backyard gardening and participation in local farmers markets is quickly transforming from a fringe movement to a major cultural phenomenon. Recently, I had the chance to talk to Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton of TruthStreamMedia.com about this phenomenon and just how easy it is for people to begin transitioning off of the industrial food chain.
JAMES CORBETT: So I think the question is, what can actually conceivably be done about this? And again, I think this has to come back to that idea of, at the very least, we still control what we eat and what we don’t eat. And we still vote with our dollars every single day as to what products we’re going to put in our mouth and what we’re not. So is there a way that people can actually source this for themselves without waiting for some sort of federal labeling law?
AARON DYKES: James, I don’t want to be nostalgic here, but in so many ways with world order, I’d love to go back to before World War II, or in this case, at least during World War II, we’ve got to talk about Victory Gardens as a solution. And I think people en masse need to start growing whatever they can for vegetable gardens, raising their own food. And we’ve got to revitalize local in every sense, not the global local that they’ve been pushing through Agenda 21. And the rhetoric is going to remain tricky because these people have been shaping these systems for hundreds of years. And you heard Kissinger in the 70s. He wants nothing short of food as a weapon.
MELISSA DYKES: Straight up.
AARON DYKES: They want to control the entire food supply so that populations remain compliant to this global world order. We can basically defeat that as best as we’re going to be able to by decentralizing that, taking back any part of your production. If you’re not going to do a garden, figure out who your neighbors are down the road, start a relationship. But, you know, there’s a million ways you could do it. We started just growing sprouts in our kitchen because we’re not ready for a full-on vegetable garden.
MELISSA DYKES: Yeah. You can do that in like two or three days with just water and sprouts on your countertop. And then you have food. We’re also going to start making a lot of videos. And we’ve been doing this a little bit just to show how with all this “convenience” food, everybody thinks that they’re saving so much time. But actually, if you go back to just making it yourself, you not only save time, but money. And you don’t have a bunch of ingredients in your food that you can’t even pronounce.
SOURCE: Interview 704 – Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton on GMO Labeling
For those who are not confined to the space limitations of the urban environment, the ability to maintain a year-round harvest of fresh foods is even easier. As no shortage of online guides and tutorials will attest, raised bed gardening not only allows those in more rural locations the ability to feed healthy, homegrown food to their family on a regular basis, but also to reconnect with the natural environment and provide the calm and respite that is so often lacking from modern life.
Recently I had the chance to discuss gardening with Leon Pittard of Fairdinkum Radio in Australia, including how soil development can be an essential part of the home gardening process.
CORBETT: So let’s talk a little bit about your setup in particular. Tell us about the raised beds that you have, how many plants that you have, and what it is you’re planting.
LEON PITTARD: We’ve got five different raised beds at the moment, and that’s actually developing. But in those raised beds, I’ve developed the soil. And a very important part to understand about growing your own food is that, yeah, [GARBLED] like a beet, look at the inputs. And when we look at even the research community, we’re often talking about the media, which is an input into the life. And food is really just another input into our lives that sustains us and and actually helps to grow our health and sustain our health and so plants also need inputs. And so, it’s particularly important to understand that we start from a good place.
And I focus a lot on actually developing the soil from a variety of different methods composting and adding lots of high nutrition to that soil so that when you do actually grow your seedlings and grow your plants, it’s important that your plants are full of that power and minerals and life that’s in the soil. And so, just as the blood is the life for our body, so the soil is the life for the plant. And so I focus a lot on minerals and actually building the soil as a base and having that soil but it’s really high powered so that the food we eat, you can really notice a difference.
In those five beds this year, we’ve basically sustained ourselves 100% with greens, as in lettuce and spinach and high-powered greens like broccoli. We’re growing out cauliflower. We’ve got garlic in all the time, snow peas, beetroot. And what I try and focus on is that we actually graze off the garden. Most commercial planting enterprises basically grow a vegetable until it’s huge, and then they pluck it out. So you’ve got a crop all coming on at once but what we do is actually eat little bits of it all the time. In other words, you can be taking—we eat the beetroot leaves, the the broccoli leaves. I put in juices. I juice organic carrots, apples and broccoli leaves and stems, and that provides a real high-powered chlorophyll mix with with the vegetables.
And the thing is, with having your mineral base really powerful in your soil, your plants actually grow a natural ability to resist pests. And of course we don’t use any pesticide or anything like that. And if the plant is healthy, basically it’s going to resist pests, or the pests aren’t going to be a problem. I mean, I don’t mind if some caterpillars or something eat a few leaves. I mean, it doesn’t matter if you grow enough food to share, right? And the idea is not to look at those things as “bad,” because they’re actually all a part of the ecosystem.
And so, basically, what we do in those beds is focus on really good soil quality, which delivers really good plant quality. And obviously when you eat that then that those minerals actually are the minerals that our bodies need. And so what we do as a maintenance program, I actually put seawater on my plants at 100-to-1 ratio. I dilute the seawater 100-to-1 and I run my plants and my trees every week with that mix and you can see a difference in the leaves. Like, sometimes, if if trees or plants are lacking minerals, you’ll see they’re spotted, or they’ll have discoloration. And if you maintain this sea water application, the plants will actually absorb all those minerals and you can see that the leaves change to a glossy, healthy color. And in some of the videos, you’ll see our leaves they’re shining. You can go into into the corporate food industry, you can’t see lettuce that’s shining or beetroot leaves are actually glowing at you.
And, you know, we can go down there and basically pick the leaves or snow peas and just eat them straight off. Some beautiful, sustaining food. And my wife makes beautiful broccoli quiches and cauliflower soup and, oh, James, you know, growing your own food! It’s just so satisfying, you know? And i can feel it in my own health too and, yeah, it’s a great, wonderful, satisfying thing to do.
SOURCE: Interview 713 – Leon Pittard on How to Grow Your Own Food
As with every such transition, the move from an industrial food diet to a homegrown, organic one is likely to occur in gradual stages. As people improve their gardening skills and devote more of their time and attention to sourcing healthy, natural foods from local growers and producers, they can slowly but surely eliminate the processed foods from their diets.
And this, as with all such boycotts, is the real promise of the homegrown food revolution. There is nothing that we as individuals can do to directly influence the policies of the Federal Reserve or the practices of the NSA or the foreign policy of the US/NATO empire. But we can directly choose what foods and products we support with our dollars and what food we put on our families’ tables. Not only can we make that choice, but we do actively make that choice each and every day, whether by default or by conscious action. If we, in the full knowledge of the devestating health and environmental effects of the big food conglomerates, continue to support those corporations with our money, then we are complicit in their activities. To the extent that we withdraw our support and begin to seek out and build up alternative infrastructures for producing healthy foods, we are part of the solution.
The choice is ours to make, and this revolution, like the Wall Street boycott, the Big Tech boycott, and all the other boycotts of the corporatocracy that are possible, begins the next time you walk into a store and purchase—or refuse to purchase—one of their products.
9 years ago we were producing a wide variety of veggies on a 1/4 acre garden in the AZ White Mountains, able to share with others. Now after the increase in weather modification, chemtrails, etc. we can’t even grow Zucchini.
The daily UV numbers have been changed by the government as we consistently saw 13+ UV index that is now hacked down to 11+ “Extreme” and it burns everything…plastic tarps last one season, vehicles need multiple wax jobs during the year, etc.
As the food producing plants around the US get torched and GMO plants spread their bad seeds, in the wind, etc. it all seems a very intentional effort to fulfill the prophet of doom’s statement:
In 1970, Henry Kissinger said: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people.”
I would add, control the media and your control how people think.
Yes, I was thinking of trying shade cloths this year in my garden. Even the heat loving plants take a beating.
@ejdoyle
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
The weather modification attacks are challenging yes, but there are work arounds if one is determined to decentralize their food production. You can grow nutrient dense mushrooms indoors using free materials for “substrate” (mushroom growing medium). You can also grow microgreens and sprouts inside using free or dirt cheap organic seeds. Neither of those are bothered by weird weather or intense UV outside.
Then there is building a solid structure to provide shade and other simultaneous functions. Like a rain sequestration shed, with awnings for shade areas, mushroom growing space inside, and water storage tanks underground. Not cheap or easy to build, but worth it.
I can offer other suggestions as well if you are interested.
Nature’s inherent abundance and resilience is far to prolific and irrepressible for some hubristic control freak humans to be able to truly control one’s access to food if we are willing to use biomimicry and think outside the box. It just takes a shift in perspective, a willingness to adapt and see nature as our teacher.
I grew up in the SF Bay Area where the soil was old and rich. Starting as a kid in the 50’s in a then small town, Antioch, where the majority of our part of town was filled with 1st generation Europeans, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc. and everyone had something growing everywhere. The space between the curb and sidewalks, before the cementing of everything, was used.
Shared in community gardens in the Mission District of SF, had excellent gardens in Tenino, WA near Olympia, and home gardens Omaha, Tucson, etc.
But that was a different world. Today’s madness is far beyond anything one could imagine then.
@ejdoyle
What a blessing to have those memories in your soul’s suitcase. I have heard stories of the old redwoods there that made me want to get over my distaste for cities and visit San Fran for a bit (but then the scamdemic mRNA injection passports requirements came out for Canadians so that trip has been put on hold).
My wife has been to San Fran and tells me stories about the amazing culinary scene in that city, which also makes me want to visit there.
Your description about people making use of the space between the curb and the sidewalks for growing food is very illustrative and profound in it’s ability to clearly depict the difference in most people’s mindsets from them to now.
I am trying (in my own small way) to help people back in that direction of Guerilla Gardening, noticing nature’s inherent abundance, aligning with it, teaching the young ones to do the same, and boycotting big ag, big food and big pharma, but I will admit it is an uphill battle sometimes. There are pockets of people in specific demographics here in southern Ontario (and other areas) that have this “war on nature” mentality ingrained into them so deeply, that they look out at their front lawn covered in fallen nutrient dense hickory nuts or walnuts and just see an annoying mess (meanwhile they are paying top dollar for nutritionally depleted toxic GMO processed “food” at the supermarket), and/or they see an elderberry bush growing in their farm field and see it as an inconvenient “weed” in the way of monocropped soy bean or corn production.
Well, as the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water (you know the rest)
There is a growing minority of more motivated and open minded people though, that are giving their head a shake, seeing how obscenely corrupt our tyrannical government subsidized big ag system is, and taking action to boycott it through hyper-localized and decentralized food production (whether it is a vertically stacked patio garden, a mushroom growing op in the closet or an epic community garden set up) so that gives me hope.
I just keep looking to the ancient wisdom in the forest for glimpses of sanity in a world gone mad, extrapolate that into viable scalable solutions, and put them into action. It is not always easy, but I feel that when I leave this world I will look back and be happy that I chose to go against the grain of the dominant degenerative trends of our oligarch dominated society and instead align my will with that of Creation and the abundance of nature.
Thanks again for sharing your experiences.
(Gotta do this in 2 parts.)
>>What a blessing to have those memories in your soul’s suitcase,>>
Indeed.
>>I have heard stories of the old redwoods there that made me want to get over my distaste for cities and visit San Fran for a bit>>
The Redwoods are in Marin county and North of SF. Spectacular.
In 1968 living in Berkeley, working in the City. An ex girlfriend from Norway sent me a letter (you know, old school email 🙂 with a “flower” she had penned at the bottom that said “Eat Me.”
It was a dose of Sandoz LSD-25.
I took it and just when I started climbing my finace’ showed up with a friends Austen Healy and we went across the San Raphel bridge up to the Redwoods. Spectacular first trip 🙂 Sky Pilot. That same woman and I passed through Toronto in 1969 on our Honeymoon. Great time.
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>>(but then the scamdemic mRNA injection passports requirements came out for Canadians so that trip has been put on hold).>>
The controllers have an incredible ability to create chaos in people’s lives hey?
>>My wife has been to San Fran and tells me stories about the amazing culinary scene in that city, which also makes me want to visit there.>>
I’ve lived there often. Had a lot of favorite “brands” of food places to eat. Including a Korean out of the way place that the janitor at a photo lab I was remodeling took us. FYI the “Old Spagetti Factory” franchise took the name, perhaps expanded, from a real North Beach old spagetti factory.
Much of my SF experience is when there was about 100,000,000 less people around. :-O
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>>Your description about people making use of the space between the curb and the sidewalks for growing food is very illustrative and profound in it’s ability to clearly depict the difference in most people’s mindsets from them to now.>>
Yeah, really old school in many ways. Similar to China, a lot of the land, shrubs, trees, etc. have been murdered by the incessant need to be “clean” and “safe” from germs and bugs and creepy crawlies :-/
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>>I am trying (in my own small way) to help people back in that direction of Guerilla Gardening, noticing nature’s inherent abundance, aligning with it, teaching the young ones to do the same>>
Good on you friend. Years ago James used my song It Starts With You and Me ©Darn Good Music as a bumper or segue song on his radio show 🙂 Had two Canadian buds in college in the 60’s that were aces.
Just finished a new song today called A Hill To Die ©Darn Good Music On regarding the need for people to commit to saving our nation. Will have it up on my channel soon as I can sing it well.
Here’s one of the verses:
“Everyone can’t do everything, but all can do some thing
Just do the best that you can, a simple offering
At work or church out in the world, speak truth about it all
Trust muscle men know how to act, when to talk and when to brawl”
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>>”war on nature” mentality ingrained into them so deeply…and just see an annoying mess>>
Yep. As I mentioned above. The conquest of the natural evolutionary progress/process has been pirated by the controlers in a long death of a 1000 cuts agenda.
Which of course has led many to wonder if they are with any real human needs as they have devestated so much of nature everywhere…water, land, trees, air, animals, etc.
From my 2015 song Who Wants Us To Die ©Darn Good Music
There is danger in the towers there is toxic everywhere
Food’s not fit and water’s bad, the fish are sick and so’s the land
Everything seems oh so wrong and we are lost in time
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>>(meanwhile they are paying top dollar for nutritionally depleted toxic GMO processed “food” at the supermarket)>>
HOMER: “Mmmmm, processed food” 🙂
>>Well, as the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water (you know the rest)>>
You can’t make him gather any moss??
Is worth two in the bush?? 🙂
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>>There is a growing minority of more motivated and open minded people though>>
In spite of it being the product of evil, youtube offers many excellent videos on a wide variety alternative (actually correct) life style stuff.
When I sing my songs about the madness, from logical reasons, I can’t say NOT EVERYONE for each song as there are many beautiful “souls” as you call them out there.
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>>I just keep looking to the ancient wisdom in the forest for glimpses of sanity in a world gone mad>>
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
– Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
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>> and align my will with that of Creation and the abundance of nature.>>
The Holy Land is where you stand
– Leslie Gray Ph.D.
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Best reply experience I have had here in YEARS.
Thanks a lot.
Namaste.
@ejdoyle
Thanks for those intriguing and imagination stimulating anecdotes and stories.
The Holy Land is where you stand, ya I like that.
I am reading a book where the author talks about “The Holy in the Wild” and he seems to be talking about a similar concept.
Here are a few pages from the book:
https://archive.org/details/seedsofcuchumaquic/IMG_5735.JPG
The spark of light within me also honors the light in you brother.
Thanks for speaking from the heart.
We ran out of space on this conversation. This inre:
>>Thanks for those intriguing and imagination stimulating anecdotes and stories.>>
It is said when one gets old all they have left is their stories.
>>The Holy Land is where you stand, ya I like that.>>
Leslie Gray is a Native American SF based psychologist. Ran across her quote doing research for one of my books. Really condenses things down to the here and now.
https://archive.org/details/seedsofcuchumaquic/IMG_5735.JPG
Interesting stuff. When someone puts a date like “4000 years” in an article I revert back to wondering if they they understand about the Mud Flood evidence of previous incarnations of humans or Gobekli Tepi, etc.
>>The spark of light within me also honors the light in you brother.>>
Thanks. We all need that recognition these days of others as the controller’s agenda of divide and conquer is well at hand.
>>Thanks for speaking from the heart.>>
IT STARTS WITH YOU AND ME (song)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uPPBh6BmFaxQ/
I live in Southern AZ, and we don’t really see the problem you are having, I have not seen any changes.
I have always (30 years now growing in AZ) had problems with Tomatoes, Strawberries and the like, the sun here is quite intense, but that was the same issue when I started.
On the other hand, after the first year, my fruit bearing trees and vines do just fine. Citrus, Peaches, Plums, Grapes, Pomegranates, Figs…Like I said, first year is always a challenge, but come the second year they grow leaves that are more suited to the sun. Not to mention our numerous Peruvian Apple cactus that do great.
We do use sun shields on plants that are sun sensitive, passion fruit and avocados.
That is not to say, they are not working to undermine food independence. I’m always worried they will use water as a weapon. In Oregon, they are going after small farms with BS rules, like requiring some of the same structures large industrial farms have, like specific areas for milking cows and feeding chickens. Even for a small farm with three cows they required $100,000 feeding lots and dealing with the animal’s waste…The state of Oregon is “concerned about run off, water resources are public concerns”. They are using satellite imaging to see who has a farm and going after them. I remember back East where water cisterns were illegal. No such thing as private property in a Communist system.
You are about 4000 feet below me if you are in the Tucson area. When I lived in Tucson for a few years out towards Gates Pass a dozen years ago or so the weather was great. Still had chemtrails, etc. but more tolerable then.
I’m not a farmer so up here we were growing the basics. Got most of our organic starter plants from some religious group back East. At 82 and with the intense heat, just can’t afford the effort/shade cloth, etc. anymore.
Others in town sell at Sunday “Farmer’s Markets” in town.
In watching this I’d like to make the following comments about it –
5:30 – Klass Horchata… The contents inside aren’t technically GMO – so that’s misleading… GMOs have not actually gotten labels, they’re still hiding them. https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070212871/usda-bioengineered-food-label-gmo
But it’s even worse, because a more accurate word is ‘chemicals’. And we have yet to acknowledge that chemicals should not go in food. GMO ‘debates’ and such misleading info further confusion. The situation is actually even worse if you inspect it. Yes many of these if there’s natural source could be GMO – probably assume that source ‘plants’ were GMO, but they’re not telling.
– Dextrose – This is a sugar, they don’t say what source in nature that it’s taken from – so that’s pretty bad, as these aren’t ingredients, more a formula…
– Sugar – Here’s an article from NYT’s ‘Magazine’ “Is Sugar Toxic” https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html – if you follow links to the root presentation there’s a professor who says chemically, sugar is indeed toxic to human bodies.
– Third ingredient, meaning there is lots of it, but less than sugars… is mind boggling – Titanium Dioxide, FDA approved, but banned in EU – people here in the US would like it banned too… https://www.cspinet.org/cspi-news/titanium-dioxide-why-fda-should-ban-harmful-additive – I suppose it’s beats lead as a source of pigment, but it is still bad – why couldn’t they say, simply use egg-shells instead, for calcium white? Calcium we need – titanium we don’t need, it is actually a heavy metal, and can be toxic – https://emerginnova.com/titanium-toxicity/
– Maltodextrin – technically a carb, but it acts like a sugar / sugar substitute… https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/food-drink/food/what-is-maltodextrin/
I could go further, but I would run out of space… folks can search themselves… but we shouldn’t need the dread, ‘do your own research’, on what we’re eating… I had a friend who had an excellent diet he recommended, “If your ancestors wouldn’t recognize a food, you shouldn’t eat it.”
n810,
Thanks for listing some of the ingredients, and for providing all those links.
ASPARTAME – That word on the list grabbed my eyeballs. Donald Rumsfeld has contributed so many things towards the New World Order that he should get a ‘Dark Lord’ Award.
GMO
Likely Dextrose and Maltodextrin are GMO.
Dextrose is a type of sugar that usually comes from corn or wheat.
Maltodextrin is a white powder made from corn, rice, potato starch, or wheat.
I doubt that manufacturers will pay a premium for organically derived corn or wheat by-products.
I’d bet money that the stuff at least has some Roundup-juice residue for a tasty tang effect.
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It was cool to see Aaron and Melissa Dykes from eleven years ago.
I look forward to more from Corbett about Food Solutions.
– FLUORIDE –
It irks me to water my organic yard and garden with fluoridated water. Just like a person’s body, that fluoride accumulates in the plants and soil.
[About half of all the fluoride which a human consumes during a lifetime, virtually accumulates and is retained in the body to the grave. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/ ]
And I often rinse off my organic fruits and vegs with fluoridated water from the garden hose. – Irk.
Fluoride is part of the U.S. food supply’s hidden ingredient.
With all the U.S. fluoride propaganda, it is a wonder that processed foods don’t shout with pride on a label: “Made with fluoridated water for healthier teeth!!”
Here’s a tip for tomato growers that I’ve successfully used over the past few years to increase fruit yield: you can self-pollinate. Sadly, as there are fewer pollinators around to do the job, there’s no guarantee that your harvest will be as bountiful as it could be.
All you need is an electric toothbrush. Switch it on. Lay the back of the brush head gently atop the stem bearing an open flower for about 1 second. You may or may not see a cascade of pollen fall from the flower. That’s it! The vibrations from the toothbrush mimic that of a bee, so I’m told.
Enjoy your tomato harvest!
dots4eyes,
That’s a cool tidbit. Thanks.
With tomatoes, peppers and other plants, sometimes I will plant peas or peanuts next to the plant for a nitrogen boost.
Fresh ‘green’ peanuts sometimes found at foreign market grocery stores in the US. work great.
But this year, I bought the bagged brand raw peanuts-in-the-shell at the American grocery store. Many I planted ‘took’.
This year in the Spring, the crows would yell out a “Caw!” pattern for their friends when they spotted me leave a small pile for them or the Blue Jays.
SOIL
I have that black gumbo clay soil, vertisol. It actually grabs and retains nutrients well. It has been historically great for Texas cotton. When I want to deodorize the trash cans or even my hands, I will grab some ground and rub it around.
Stuff sticks to the black gumbo clay when wet. It is the kind of wet clay that will clump a half inch or more on your shoes or shovel. And the clay shrinks when in a dry spell – cracks the ground wide. (Surprisingly, vertisols originate from the whitish limestone typically found lower.)
So, even though I rent, over the years I have been trying to build the soil. I do all kinds of things. (Such as add mineral amendments, microbes, variety of plants, compost teas, different types of worms.)
I like Howard Garrett, the Dirt Doctor for organic advice. He also has spoken out in person against the City of Dallas on fluoride.
https://www.dirtdoctor.com/
“I actually put seawater on my plants at 100-to-1 ratio. I dilute the seawater 100-to-1 and I run my plants and my trees every week with that mix and you can see a difference in the leaves.”
Well that is a new one for me. I’ve never heard of using diluted salt water for feeding plants. I think I’ll take an empty bottle with me the next time I take the dog to the beach and give it a try on a couple things.