What Your Food Ate How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health
Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction – and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.
I've not found resources about growing sassafras leaf for gumbo file or tea. I harvested a few pounds in the spring, then decided to hold off and see if the flavor changed through the season.
Later in the season is more vegetative and bitter. As fall sets in the leaves look like crap and have fungus & worms. Of 20 branches I cut today, I only put one up for drying. The rest are compost fodder.