In this time of stress and potential major threats to our health, we now, more than ever, need to focus on growing our own food and creating health from the soil up. Nutrients are critical for the health of your immune system. These nutrients come largely from the...
Here are some more fantastic results from Susan, who is a student in the Perfect Soil™ Certificate Course. Remember, from my last blog post, the broccoli at the back of the kale beds? They have matured, and here are some pictures of the comparison. Susan says, of...
One of my students in the Perfect Soil Certificate Course, Susan, recently shared her results of a side-by-side comparison trial of the Beyond Organic Growing System(TM). The control bed was fertilized/amended as she had done typically in the past with organic-type...
Nutrition Farming for Hawaii is a grant-funded project located at HIP Agriculture in Kapa`au, Hawaii and fiscally sponsored by the North Kohala Community Resource Center (NKCRC). The aim is to increase food nutritional content. This starts with improving the soil....
Not all microbes are bad. Human bodies contain about as many microbial cells as actual human cells. This is called the human microbiome. We live symbiotically with the microbes. We actually could not live without them! Our microbiome shifts as we change our diet...
Work continues in the Nutrition Farming for Hawaii (NFH) Research and Demonstration Garden. Here are some more impressive examples of increased nutrient content from our first year as compared to USDA Food Nutrient Database published values. Below are two crops, red...
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