The truth about organic food..
Day 22 #365DaysWild
Intensive farming contributes high levels of herbicide, pesticide and fertiliser pollution to the environment with big impacts on nature. And on our health. Organic food contains significantly more important polyphenols and nutrients than food pumped up artificially by modern intensive methods.
Professor Tim Spector and the truth about organic food….
Another truth is that no government has properly supported organic farming. Organic food has never had any kind of national priority. It has been caricatured in ‘The Good Life’ and subsequently.No government has taken the health implications of its population consuming a diet of organo-phosphate and other synthetic chemicals seriously at all.
New developments also suggest that organic food grown without soil disturbance (no-dig or no-till) produce food that is much more nutrient rich than that grown by organic methods alone.
No-dig means that the nutrient-rich tunnels dug by worms and the powerful connections made by soil fungi and bacteria thus provide more and better nutrients to plant roots. And better food for us.
We’ve been unashamedly organic gardeners since 1978. And no-dig since 2017. So, I’ll make no excuses for celebrating growing our own, nature friendly food and throwing in the occasional recipe too..
Here’s my brother-in-law with a seriously big head of calabrese. Grown organically, no-dig.
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