We are all connected

Mono-crops like corn and soy beans planted in the same soil year after year are bad for consumer and the environment.  The soil becomes depleted of those nutrients that the one crop needs, so the farmer has to pump the fields with fertilizers and pesticides because the plants aren't strong enough to fight pests on their own due to poor nutrition.   Then we eat pesticide-laden crops (which lack real flavor, in my opinion) and the chemicals seep into the ground water and rivers, polluting the water humans and animals drink.

So how can we get abundant crops that are healthy for us and the environment?  One option is to get back to the type of farming our great grandfathers used!  Although they didn't have a specific name for it back then, now they call it "biodynamic farming."  Here's a little sneak peak into the type of farming that uses various relationships between plants, soils, and animals as a self-sustaining system without external assistance.  Last summer I visited the Ubuntu restaurant in Napa that serves food grown on their biodynamic farm.  It was incredibly delicious and satisfying to know it came straight from an organic garden!  Yum yum!

Day 49 Food Journal:
-dark chocolate peanut butter - great way to start the morning, right? agreed.
-oatmeal, fuji apple Fruit Crisps (39 cal)
-wheat tortilla, grilled veggies, black and white beans, seitan, guacamole, salsa, chips
-coconut chocolate Bliss bar
-chocolate peanut butter, apple
-almond Thin-Crisps, roasted broccoli, cauliflower, sweet potato (seriously - these roasted veggies taste like candy.  They're super addictive!)