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Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
RAW ALMOND MILK - Smooth, creamy, silky, highly nutritious, it is very easy to make and a much healthier choice than the store-bought.
Recipe in the Raw category on my blog Vegan Magic.
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Whole wheat made with weak sourdough starter. A bold experiment. (crash of thunder, evil mad-scientist laugh!)
Habibo Ali gives her grandson Abdi Karim nutritious, therapeutic peanut-based paste to treat his malnutrition, at an outpatient therapeutic feeding clinic supported by UNICEF. Baidoa, Somalia, 1 Feb 2017. UNICEF is currently supporting 587 outpatient clinics like this, and hopes to increase the number to 700 by April.
Severe drought is now affecting all regions of Somalia and if the next rains also perform badly, there is a serious possibility of famine. This follows the failure of two or more consecutive rains with the last Deyr Season (October-December) performing poorly across the country with large areas receiving less than 40 per cent of the normal rainfall.
The drought is aggravating the existing chronic humanitarian crisis in Somalia with more than 363,000 children under-5 acutely malnourished and 71,000 of these children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and in need of urgent life-saving treatment. 6.2 million people, half of the population, is food insecure. By April, UNICEF estimates that the number of people in need of health, water/sanitation assistance will be 750,000 and 4.5 million, respectively.
8 August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. Some of the male farmers are picking the ripe peppers in the garden. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
8 August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. The farmers make their own compost piles that will be used as sustainable and natural fertilizer for the crops. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. Oumie Jawara, FAO production assistant, helps the farmers at the garden implement the trainings they have received in climate smart agriculture. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
Simple, nutritious and fulfilling mini quiche made with onions, orange peppers and cheese!
Recipe featured on Silly Nutrition Undergrad
8 August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. Some of the male farmers are picking the ripe peppers in the garden. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
Tasty nutritious Chinese style soup boiled with lots of herbs, dried longans and wolfberries makes the soup a neutral sweetness.
This hot soup, is perfection
What an odd plant. The petiole bases are dramatically swollen...not uncommon for the carrot family...and a massive sort of bulb-like structure develops, just at ground level. Come to think of it, I suppose this is homologous to an onion bulb, which also features leaf bases wrapped around a meristem. Foeniculum is the genus.
An excellent alternative to potato chips. Dehydrate zucchini slices; then spray with olive oil and Kosher salt; roast in oven for 5 minutes.
Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
Sorghum produces nutritious grains and Africa’s version of maple syrup - extracted from the sweet sap in its stalk. It is one of the top five cereal crops grown in the world.
Fresh, sweet, beautiful strawberries from the side of the road. COST: 30 k Kip ($1.90), Pakse, Laos.
What I do here in basically parts of South Central Los Angeles is I'd like to say, a renegade evolutionary where we- basically we plant gardens, front yards, parkways with nutritious foods so basically we bring organic healthy non GMO'd - free of pesticide food to an area that basically doesn't have it.
LA green grounds is a group that we founded to alleviate some of this problem. It is to curb some of this food disparage that's in this neighborhood, to educate people on their food, and get people back to the soil - let them know their roots and let them know how powerful the soil really is. Sometimes in these kind of areas.. people have this stigma about soil because of you know legacies of slavery and legacies of you know migrant farm workers and stuff like that, and people:' I'll never do that because my parents had to do that' but we want to instill in people how powerful the soil is and we are a part of it. Basically this the only way you can take back your food system.. to become one with the soil and embrace the soil therefore you're embracing your health embracing your life and health and the air quality of the area that you live in.
Volunteers come from everywhere to help a family or an individual put their garden in. Basically you have a garden in a day, and with that we have them promise that they will pay that forward by helping us with another dig in for the next person and the next person. ….so you have this group of volunteers that grow and people all of the sudden are meeting their neighbors people are all of the sudden meeting people from other parts of the city. So you're community has grown because now you have a person from another community that is now linked to your community, and that is how communities to me should be built…. just because you're in this certain block radius, that should not be the boundaries of your community, just like a business- that should not be the boundaries of your community. It should expand just like a spiders web, but infinitely.
I have these people who say "I work in food justice" - I'm like how the hell you gonna work in food justice. There is no food justice. You're ass 'works' in food injustice, OK, before thats curbed then maybe you can say you work in food justice 'cause there is some but it's always killed me that people say they work in food justice. No you don't. You work in food injustice
There's people that realize that they need another option. There's people that also realize the food is shit, but it's also that [they] don't have the adequate means to even get the shit food. I encourage people to partake of the garden, but I also encourage them to get the instruction on how to partake in the bounty of garden. A lot of people what they do, they'll see the tomato plants and they'll take all the tomatoes thats not…. you didn't help do this. You didn't contribute anything to this so you know take what you need and leave something for somebody else, or bring some get some. Whatever you can share, share it. Whether it be some seeds, whether it is be some money, whether it be some work, pull some weeds- something. I don't want people to think 'oh free shit, let me take it' - and thats some of the stuff we encounter but to see somebody out and presumingly ilke they think their sneaking or stealing the food, no its on the street, and thats why I want you to take it.
What I would like do, I would like to see this go global. I'm talking world domination. I want branches everywhere but almost like a free open source thing- where this is what you need to do, this is how you need to do it, this is the deal with the legislature/city officials. I want it to be like that so there can be outlets all over the world. I'm, getting emails now because of my TED, it's heart warming and its sad at the same time to see how many people are desperate for food, desperate for healthy food. Everywhere from the Netherlands to Florida to Chicago to England- I'm getting these emails…to the islands and people are thanking me. I feel I'm doing nothing really, I'm not doing a one hundredth of what I want to do or what I think I could do with the proper assistance. So, I want to see just where we take our food back and our health back. You know, people still don't know what GMO is. So, you have an apple and its got these numbers on it and you're supposed to know if it starts with 9 if it starts with a 5 or 8 and its 7 numbers. It shouldn't be like that. If I'm eating natural food, it should make me healthy. It should not have nothing that could possibly make me sick, or over time alter the course of my life. Its an apple. Thats what it should represent, it should represent health- not represent death, and thats what a lot of this food is doing now.
My garden in front of my house has affected my neighborhood tremendously. The fact that Wallstreet Journal and TV documentaries come, but also its made a lot of people aware of how easy and how joyous it is to grow your own food, and the footprint is ridiculous. A lot of people still won't do it. Everybody knows how to garden. We are all gardeners. I mean for all the religious people... what was the first job - take care of my garden. So to me it's in us. It's in our DNA period. We are soil. We are bacteria. That's why a lot people lose themselves once they get in that soil. I think thats the closest a man can get to giving birth you know - growing plants. You take them as a seed and you know, you nurture that into this big beautiful thing. Whether it's for beauty, pollination, or for consumption.
Somebody told me London gets most of their stuff from Columbia now which is insane to me. Here, that needs to change. It's like cogs in the system, 'I can't lose my house, I got to get to work', and we got them looking at so much other stuff that's so called important that they think 'oh this is convenient'. No its not convenient, it's killing you, you know it's stressing you, it's breaking your humanity down. We just have to keep putting it out there. Got to put the media out there, and it's hard because a lot of people they don't want to hear- they think they don't have time, well you have time to die.
When you think of officials, they don't want to hear it. It's the status quo, good and cushy, leave it the way it is. …it's like a lot of people they don't want change and this particular change is benefitting humanity and it's less stress on so many systems from the food system to the health care system. They've proven that people work in you know cities that have major gardens there's less violence you know less crime and I can see why. You get lost a lot of times when you're in a garden. They've done studies upon studies you know in prisons and everything- how it just calms everyone. Being in a garden is like meditative.
August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. The farmers are weeding the crops. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
8 August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. After a long morning working in the garden the women return home with songs and dances. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
A pot of Bolevan Plateau (Lao) green tea and a piece of fancy whole grain pie, COST: 38 k Kip ($2), from Naked Espresso, Vientiane, Laos.
Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
Possibly not the most nutritious thing to eat for tea, but I wasn't hungry before I went to fit camp and a couple of toasted hot cross buns was about all I could face come half nine.
I did try a couple more shots of the (minute) amount of extra snow we had, but there's not really enough to show up as the sort of shot I'm after. What we do have is turning nicely icy so I suspect I'll be parking in the supermarket and getting the eldest to walk in both directions to nursery. The roads round the nursery school itself get very fun and icy and I don't fancy my chances with them digging holes in it as well.
Still the exercise will do us good. Not that I need it at the moment. I think we're in trouble with our instructor at the moment - the classes keep getting tougher and tougher
Mmm, Green [296/365] - While most parents struggle to get their kids to eat their veggies, I was always the opposite. I loved my carrots and peas, but ate my chicken last. Last year I became a vegetarian. Mostly due to the fact that I was a backpacker unable to afford much else, and partly due to the fact that I really didn't mind a diet of fruit and veggies... and chocolate. I came back to Canada just in time for Thanksgiving, and my days of being a vegetarian ended. I love turkey, and I would soon rediscover my love for chicken, beef... and most importantly, BACON.
I'm off to Vancouver super early in the morning... Finally!! I'm nervous, excited, and as thrilled as always that there is a plane ride in the very near future. Have a great weekend everyone!!
New solar Kenya’s first solar-powered “bubble” drier, improves bean quality and commercial value, retaining nutritious qualities before they are turned into a porridge flour. It has been donated to farmers and partners shown in a training session here at ICIPE campus in Nairobi on December 9th, as part of a project “Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in East Africa,” which aims to reach around five million small holder farmers in Uganda and Kenya benefiting 50,000 rural and urban consumers.
The project is supported by BMZ and GIZ; The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and CGIAR donors. It is a joint project between the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance initiative and DAPA-Linking Farmers to Markets. The project is led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in collaboration with The University of Hohenheim (UHOH), University of Göttingen (UGOE), Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
8 August 2019, Njoben, Central River Region in The Gambia. Farmer watering the crops. The FAO has been helping to expand the Farmer Field School in Njoben (Central River Region -CRR) since 2014, with funding from the EU. The field has been extended from one hectare to five hectares. Today, the various crops grown here: tomatoes, orange fleshed sweet potato, herbs, peppers, cassava, cabbage, okra, rice and many other nutritious foods are grown and consumed by more than 200 women and 14 men, and their families, from the local community. The surplus is sold, and this allows many of the families to improve their livelihoods and send their children to school. Another noteworthy improvement is the comprehensive borehole and water distribution system that has been established, thereby relieving almost 500 women farmers from the hardship of drawing water from the wells.
The community has been trained on gardening and helped agricultural extension workers to introduce more varieties of vegetables and apply climate smart agriculture. Similar support has been expanded to seven other community gardens throughout the country. This component is part of the “Post-crisis response to food and nutritious insecurity in The Gambia” (Project code: GM/FED/38780)
Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
A nutritious supplement with no artificial colors or flavors.
For all exotic birds. May be cooked or blenderized with natural fruit juice for a
delicious fruit pudding or nectar treat. Fruits are dehydrated unless stated otherwise.
INGREDIENTS: CRANBERRIES, PAPAYA, PINEAPPLE, FLAKED COCONUT, BANANA CHIPS, CUBED COCONUT, CRISPY APPLES, BLUEBERRIES, APPLES, DATES AND FIGS, CHERRIES, MANGO, JUNIPER BERRIES, PEACHES, GRAPES, FREEZE DRIED RASPBERRIES AND NATURAL LEMON FLAVOR. NO ARTIFICIAL DYES OR SYNTHETIC VITAMINS. DOES NOT CONTAIN PEANUTS.
Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min.) 5%; crude fat (min.) 9%; crude fiber (max) 12%; moisture (max.) 11%; ash (max.) 11%
Refrigerate after opening to retain freshness.
DIRECTIONS FOR QUICK COOK:
1. Remove flavor fresh packet from container, add 1 cup blend to 2 cups boiling water or use natural fruit juice
2. Stir and remove from heat. Cover and let stand until cool.
3. Stir again and feed. Refrigerate left over amount for up to 3 days.
Can be cooked ahead of time and frozen to be served at a later date.
a very wholesome carrot, onion and cauliflower liquidized soup with a sprinkling of ground cumin which I enjoy every now and then, especially when I need a quick easy-to-prepare meal and solid food just seemed too heavy for the appetite.....
New solar Kenya’s first solar-powered “bubble” drier, improves bean quality and commercial value, retaining nutritious qualities before they are turned into a porridge flour. It has been donated to farmers and partners shown in a training session here at ICIPE campus in Nairobi on December 9th, as part of a project “Making Value Chains Work for Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Populations in East Africa,” which aims to reach around five million small holder farmers in Uganda and Kenya benefiting 50,000 rural and urban consumers.
The project is supported by BMZ and GIZ; The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and CGIAR donors. It is a joint project between the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance initiative and DAPA-Linking Farmers to Markets. The project is led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in collaboration with The University of Hohenheim (UHOH), University of Göttingen (UGOE), Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Ugandan National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
For more information visit: alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/first-solar-powered-bu...
Credit: ©2016CIAT/Georgina Smith
Please credit accordingly and leave a comment when you use a CIAT photo.
For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
Beets stay nutritious with our wood roasting technique on the gas grill with SmokinLicious® wood chunks
Murtabak is a pancake-style breading with green vegetables, tomato, onion and egg. It originated in Yemen and is now popular across the Arabian peninsula, Hafr al-Batin, Saudi Arabia.
Wild but edible and nutritious! – Exploring new (and old) ways to contribute to the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the SDGs
Rome, FAO headquarters, 25 May 2017
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli
Title: Nutritious Vegetables for Dinner
Photo by: Group 2 (Simon, Betty, George William)
Mobile Phone: Samsung SM-J320H
Caption: A Karamajong girl is happy to harvest vegetables which will help with her family's nutritional needs.
Mochi is a highly nutritious sweet made from rice flour - like a glutinous rice cake - and is soft and dense, and topped with sweet, mashed red bean paste. Took me a while to get used to this popular sweet, but now I love it.
What I do here in basically parts of South Central Los Angeles is I'd like to say, a renegade evolutionary where we- basically we plant gardens, front yards, parkways with nutritious foods so basically we bring organic healthy non GMO'd - free of pesticide food to an area that basically doesn't have it.
LA green grounds is a group that we founded to alleviate some of this problem. It is to curb some of this food disparage that's in this neighborhood, to educate people on their food, and get people back to the soil - let them know their roots and let them know how powerful the soil really is. Sometimes in these kind of areas.. people have this stigma about soil because of you know legacies of slavery and legacies of you know migrant farm workers and stuff like that, and people:' I'll never do that because my parents had to do that' but we want to instill in people how powerful the soil is and we are a part of it. Basically this the only way you can take back your food system.. to become one with the soil and embrace the soil therefore you're embracing your health embracing your life and health and the air quality of the area that you live in.
Volunteers come from everywhere to help a family or an individual put their garden in. Basically you have a garden in a day, and with that we have them promise that they will pay that forward by helping us with another dig in for the next person and the next person. ….so you have this group of volunteers that grow and people all of the sudden are meeting their neighbors people are all of the sudden meeting people from other parts of the city. So you're community has grown because now you have a person from another community that is now linked to your community, and that is how communities to me should be built…. just because you're in this certain block radius, that should not be the boundaries of your community, just like a business- that should not be the boundaries of your community. It should expand just like a spiders web, but infinitely.
I have these people who say "I work in food justice" - I'm like how the hell you gonna work in food justice. There is no food justice. You're ass 'works' in food injustice, OK, before thats curbed then maybe you can say you work in food justice 'cause there is some but it's always killed me that people say they work in food justice. No you don't. You work in food injustice
There's people that realize that they need another option. There's people that also realize the food is shit, but it's also that [they] don't have the adequate means to even get the shit food. I encourage people to partake of the garden, but I also encourage them to get the instruction on how to partake in the bounty of garden. A lot of people what they do, they'll see the tomato plants and they'll take all the tomatoes thats not…. you didn't help do this. You didn't contribute anything to this so you know take what you need and leave something for somebody else, or bring some get some. Whatever you can share, share it. Whether it be some seeds, whether it is be some money, whether it be some work, pull some weeds- something. I don't want people to think 'oh free shit, let me take it' - and thats some of the stuff we encounter but to see somebody out and presumingly ilke they think their sneaking or stealing the food, no its on the street, and thats why I want you to take it.
What I would like do, I would like to see this go global. I'm talking world domination. I want branches everywhere but almost like a free open source thing- where this is what you need to do, this is how you need to do it, this is the deal with the legislature/city officials. I want it to be like that so there can be outlets all over the world. I'm, getting emails now because of my TED, it's heart warming and its sad at the same time to see how many people are desperate for food, desperate for healthy food. Everywhere from the Netherlands to Florida to Chicago to England- I'm getting these emails…to the islands and people are thanking me. I feel I'm doing nothing really, I'm not doing a one hundredth of what I want to do or what I think I could do with the proper assistance. So, I want to see just where we take our food back and our health back. You know, people still don't know what GMO is. So, you have an apple and its got these numbers on it and you're supposed to know if it starts with 9 if it starts with a 5 or 8 and its 7 numbers. It shouldn't be like that. If I'm eating natural food, it should make me healthy. It should not have nothing that could possibly make me sick, or over time alter the course of my life. Its an apple. Thats what it should represent, it should represent health- not represent death, and thats what a lot of this food is doing now.
My garden in front of my house has affected my neighborhood tremendously. The fact that Wallstreet Journal and TV documentaries come, but also its made a lot of people aware of how easy and how joyous it is to grow your own food, and the footprint is ridiculous. A lot of people still won't do it. Everybody knows how to garden. We are all gardeners. I mean for all the religious people... what was the first job - take care of my garden. So to me it's in us. It's in our DNA period. We are soil. We are bacteria. That's why a lot people lose themselves once they get in that soil. I think thats the closest a man can get to giving birth you know - growing plants. You take them as a seed and you know, you nurture that into this big beautiful thing. Whether it's for beauty, pollination, or for consumption.
Somebody told me London gets most of their stuff from Columbia now which is insane to me. Here, that needs to change. It's like cogs in the system, 'I can't lose my house, I got to get to work', and we got them looking at so much other stuff that's so called important that they think 'oh this is convenient'. No its not convenient, it's killing you, you know it's stressing you, it's breaking your humanity down. We just have to keep putting it out there. Got to put the media out there, and it's hard because a lot of people they don't want to hear- they think they don't have time, well you have time to die.
When you think of officials, they don't want to hear it. It's the status quo, good and cushy, leave it the way it is. …it's like a lot of people they don't want change and this particular change is benefitting humanity and it's less stress on so many systems from the food system to the health care system. They've proven that people work in you know cities that have major gardens there's less violence you know less crime and I can see why. You get lost a lot of times when you're in a garden. They've done studies upon studies you know in prisons and everything- how it just calms everyone. Being in a garden is like meditative.