By
strengthening good agriculture, which is the foundation of all man’s physical
life on earth. (To borrow some words of Andrew
Lytle’s, the small farm secures the ethnos.)
We have been going in the wrong direction for decades:
. . . one of the primary arguments for genetically engineered (GE) crops and foods was that it was going to solve world
hunger. Reality, however, has demonstrated the massive flaws in this argument.
GE agriculture actually does the complete opposite, by
destroying our soils and making food more toxic and less nutritious. Regenerative farming, on the other hand, has demonstrated its
superiority with regard to yield and nutrition, all without the use of toxic
chemicals. As noted by Cummins:
“The
way we have traditionally grown food for the last 10,000 years and the way
we've raised animals the last 20,000 or 30,000 years is really organic and
pasture-based.
This
wild experiment that industry unleashed on us since the second world war, using
toxic chemicals, synthetic fertilizers, genetically engineered seeds and animal
factory farms has proven to be a disaster, not just for the farmers, the
animals and the land, but our public health has also suffered considerably.
Part
of our long-term call to take charge of your health, take charge of your diet
[is to] take charge of our environment and really our whole economic system
[and] transform this degenerative food, farming and land use system into one
that is organic and regenerative.”
. . .
During
one of Cummins’ workshops on organic compost, two local farmers approached him saying they’d developed a
remarkably simple technique using the agave plant and mesquite trees to produce
incredibly inexpensive yet nutritious animal fodder.
These
two plants, which are naturally found clustered together in arid and semi-arid
areas, do not require any irrigation, and the photosynthesis of the agave is
among the highest in the entire world. It grows rapidly, producing massive
amounts of biomass, and sequesters and stores enormous amounts of carbon, both
above ground and below ground, while producing inexpensive, nutritious animal
feed or forage and restoring the earth.
As
noted by Cummins, the fact that agave plants and mesquite (or other
nitrogen-fixing trees) grow together naturally is nature’s way to repair eroded
landscapes. The roots of the mesquite tree can reach down to 125 feet, fixing
nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil, and absorbing minerals from deep in
the ground.
Agave,
meanwhile, adds huge amounts of biomass to the land every year, drawing down
excess CO2 from the atmosphere. It pulls nitrogen and other minerals from the
ground in order to support its rapid growth, but when grown next to a
nitrogen-fixing tree, you've got a biodiverse system that will continue to grow
and thrive on a continuous basis.
. . .
The fermented agave animal
feed produced in this system costs only 5 cents per kilo (2.2 pounds) to make.
The key is fermentation. Raw agave leaves are unpalatable and hard to digest
for animals because of their levels of saponins and lectins, but once
fermented, they become digestible and attractive to the animals.
. . .
--Dr Joseph Mercola, https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/03/29/regenerative-organic-farming.aspx
By
such steps we will at length free ourselves from dependence on the
transnational corporate oligarchy of Monsanto, Walmart, megabanks, and the rest
of them.
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Here
is some advice on how to grow some food of your own:
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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