Did you know that more than half of all the calories that the average American consumes comes from ultra-processed foods? Those foods are mostly designed in labs, not kitchens, and they contain large amounts of sugar, salt, oils, fats and other additives. They are created by food scientists who spend hours engineering foods that are cheap, convenient, and taste good. The new question is whether they are also addictive, contributing to overeating and obesity. Check out this article in the New York Times!

Regenerative Grazing is the Best Land Management!

It’s no secret anymore, that our industrial agricultural system is adding to climate change, while desecrating the remaining top soil we have. Regenerative grazing, the way nature intended it to be, is being re-discovered and applied by ranchers across the country. Instead of herbicides, they let the animals do the work by by trampling the weeds as they graze, and adding organic matter to the soil, which improves soil retention and helps prevent soil and nutrient loss through erosion.

Regenerative grazing can also help to mitigate climate change by sequestering more carbon from the air and storing it in the soil, preventing it from re-entering the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or methane, two major contributors to global warming.

New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms

In this NPR article, they discuss how so much of our farms’s dark, rich, top soil has been destroyed from years of farming, and the need to practice methods that will help to rebuild the soil.

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