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It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask: ”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?” The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture. The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email michaelo@metrofarm.com
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Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Ken Kimes & Sandra Ward, New Natives, Microgreens
It is really simple: Sow some uncontaminated seeds in organic soil. Add clean water, fresh air and sunshine. Then enjoy eating the maximum nutrition of microgreens. This leads us to ask:
If it really is this simple, why doesn’t everybody eat microgreens?
It seems as though we are running out of food. That is not to say that we are running out of things to eat. No! On the contrary, there are many things to eat, and they are cheap, too!
And yet, so many of those things we are being offered in brightly colored packages for so little money have very little food in them. In fact, one of the ways they make food cheap is to take the food out of it and put it in a fancy package.
And so we eat the cheap food because its cheap and easy. And yet when we do our bodies cry out for more nutrition. So we eat more cheap food and yet our bodies still cry out for more, nutrition. So we eat more cheap food, and our bodies rebel by storing up fat, and breaking down.
Then one day we wake up to the fact that cheap food isn’t! What to do?
One thing to do is to turn to the essential simplicity of the maximum nutrition we can get from microgreens.
How simple? Sow some uncontaminated seeds in organic soil. Add clean water, fresh air and sunshine. Then harvest the sprouted seeds and enjoy eating the maximum nutrition of microgreens.