Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Is your favourite fruit about to go extinct? The deadly disease pathogen Fusarium wilt TR4 (previously referred to as Panama Disease) has been wreaking havoc and ravaging the $25 billion global banana industry – with infected plantations experiencing 100% loss and being quarantined for decades. Colombia has already declared a National State of Emergency, …
Viruses, or “Filterable Bacteria” before the 1960s because they were up to a thousand times smaller than bacteria, have been given a bad rap ever since Pasteur’s “Germ Theory” became the accepted thought over Bechamp’s “Terrain Theory” for the cause of all disease. BeChamp discovered the true reason that viruses …
I went on a mission to learn the best method for growing a beautiful lawn naturally. I took it back to the historical roots, learned the reasons we are obsessed with it and then saw grass from an ecological standpoint. Grass is an amazing and super beneficial edible and medicinal …
Candida Albicans is a type of fungus. Fungi possess a property that is strange when compared to all other micro-organisms: the ability to have a basic microscopic structure (the fiber-like hypha) with a simultaneous tendency to grow to remarkable dimensions (up to several kilograms), keeping unchanged the capacity to adapt …
The plebeians and the army drank the posca, a drink despised by the upper class. The posca was made from acetum which was a low quality wine that almost tasted like vinegar. Sometimes wine that got spoiled (because it was not properly stored) would also be used to make this …
This word describes a process by which living things break down carbohydrates to make other molecules and provide energy to cells or organs. Carbohydrates are common compounds in food and include sugars and starches Some microbes use fermentation to get energy from carbohydrates. When people put those microbes to work, …
Are we smart enough to find our own solutions to the current problems we are all experiencing together and apply them? Those willing to look at the bigger picture and take “whole” with proactive and protective measures, will rise and survive. I think it is evident we need to become …
Microbes sustain life on earth and they have relationships we are just beginning to understand leading us to discover these smallest of small critters and animals are the basis of all life. The floriculture of microbes is called the soil microbiome and it is very similar to our humanbiome and …
How beneficial microbes in the soil, food and gut are interconnected and how agriculture can contribute to human health An excellent article by Heribert Hirt THE GUT MICROBIOME CHANGES OF THE MICROBIOTA IN HISTORICAL TIMES MICROBES ENHANCE FOOD QUALITY AND CONTENT WHERE DOES OUR FOOD COME FROM? FOOD QUALITY BEYOND …
It all depends how you look at it. “taking over everything” only logically is true when you look ay the fact that industrial chemical ag is what actually has already “taken over everything” and the unwanted side effects are what human hubris is guilty of picking on. Nature has its …