Permaculture, Soil Health, Food Insecurity & Climate Change

by Asa Boxer

Industrial corn crop as far as the eye can see.

Failure of Stewardship

I promised a while back that I would address the issue of soil rehabilitation and today’s the day. It has been recognised for well over 50 years that our farming methods exhaust soils. Somewhere along the way we also learned that this loss of soil health was leading to low-nutrition produce. The worst of it is that fruits and veggies, our healthiest options—the non-processed foods—are presently poison apples full of harmful pesticides. As if that weren’t enough, these foods are genetically modified for extended shelf life, which is no life at all. All this loss of quality presents itself as a lack of flavour. Our tongues tell us it’s dead food. But our science (following Galileo’s distinction between quantitative and qualitative), tells us that flavour is an illusion. So forget what your tastebuds tell you; the true Truth is counterintuitive. Meanwhile despite TheScience™ cleverly industrialising, modifying, poisonin…