Most people want to stop consuming man made pesticides. This is a good start, but is this what makes food healthy?
What is healthy food?
These are the questions that this blog is focused on.
I was certified as a Master Gardener in 2006, and, although very informative, the program surprisingly did not answer the question. The truth is we need to search out these answers for ourselves, which takes time and effort most folks do not have. So a consolidated blog, focused on growing healthy food, (not just pesticide free), is what we need.
I am also a Certified Arborist, and Licensed in Idaho to apply restricted use pesticides, so focusing on this information became a study for me. In that search, I have been in dozens of certified organic gardens, quizzing the owners what they were doing in their food growing practices. Most felt they were organic because they believed they were pesticides free. However, they were using ditch water with pesticide run off, and often composting from feed lot waste with growth hormones, and wood chips that could have come from trees treated with systemic pesticides.
So the reality is; it is very difficult to get completely pesticide free.
The second issue was the food itself. Did it have the nutrients needed to help our bodies health.
It seems this should be the focus. As much as avoiding man made pesticides and chemicals, are we actually improving our health with the foods we eat.
The main study most growers are focused is how to make the plants grow fast to produce a crop. But in my search for better food, I am finding that fast repetitious growth actually depletes the soil and defeats the main goal - food that makes us healthy.
I am finding other back yard growers with similar findings and this has lead to our own research on how to create truly healthy food.
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