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March is National Nutrition Month and, needless to say, good nutritious food is essential to a healthy life. Remember that when it comes to animal protein, we eat what our food eats. But it needs to go further than that: The animals and produce we eat are only as healthy as the soil that nurtures them. Soil health is critical.
Conventional industrial farming practices, whose objectives are high yields, use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and tilling practices which deplete soil of nutrients and microbial diversity. The nutritional value of our fruits and vegetables today is as much as 40 percent lower than it was 70 years ago. Remember, we are a part of Nature and just like our concern for our own gut health and microbiome, soil, which has its own microbiome, needs to be tended to as well.
Much like the federally regulated organic label that we see on our groceries, some farm and food activists would like to see an official “soil health” label. This doesn’t exist yet, but here are some tips to do your own detective work in finding good food from good soil:
To your health!
Leyla Muedin, MS, RD, CDN
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