Meet an Eco-Farmer: Restoration Farm Why did you begin farming? We teach a class called “The Dream Giver,” and while meeting with a couple who had a dream of establishing an organic farm, we caught the dream. Our dream was different in that we wanted to grow crops that no other farms in the area were growing. Our choice was heirloom tomatoes, herbs and vegetables. Have you always been an ecofarmer, or did you make a change? Yes. We have chosen to grow our products completely chemical-free, and that includes any organic chemicals that we could use. What was the biggest hurdle you have overcome? We are in our 60s so the biggest hurdle is maintaining the energy to do chemical-free farming. The first big hurdle was not listening to the people who said we couldn’t do this at our age, or because we had never farmed before. What do you enjoy most about farming? We enjoy taking land that was in need of being restored and working to make it productive. We enjoy watching what we have sown break through that restored soil and become a healthy plant that is good for people to eat. It is really satisfying to have customers tell us how great our microgreens, vegetables and tomatoes taste. (more…)
Interview: Author, Activist Sally Fallon Morell Talks Deep Nutrition, Changing Attitudes Sally Fallon Morell apparently taps secret energy sources not available to most of us. A human dynamo of sorts, she advances the cause of traditional foods as a chef, cookbook author, polemicist, activist and nutrition researcher. She was inspired in the early 1970s by the work of Weston A. Price (1870-1948), who travelled the world studying the diets and health profiles of native peoples, concluding that a diet rich in animal fats and containing the protective factors found in foodstuffs such as cod liver oil, liver and eggs make for robust children who grow up to benefit from a high immunity to illness. (more…)