New Garden Product!!

Ok, so the previous post was just so I could say this post in a simpler way!

Now take what you know now about whole foods and what happens when they are fermented, esp compared to cooked, And how they benefit OUR bodies.

Now think of the soil = that living breathing system underneath your [future] garden and/or lawn.  (Remember Prerequisites to Gardening 101 [my style] are to watch Dirt The Movie (also on Netflix) and Back to Eden)

Life of any type requires certain environments and foods and is killed by certain environment and toxins.  The soil should be a location for an abundance of life, seen and unseen by the naked eye.  And a soil that is such, is a source of life for that which grows above.  It is inevitable... Soil Life supports Plant Life! (and likewise, Soil Death supports Plant Death.) 
And just as the energy of food is what gives energy to our bodies, it is the energy of the soil that determines what will grown from it.   (check out Reams)
The health of the soil is mirrored above the ground.  Weeds can tell you what the soil is like, But also, the pests and diseases, vs the health/energy and abundance of life above the soil.  I don't want to constantly be fighting the vultures off. I want to instead enjoy abundance to the fullest.  I can't do that from just above on my own. I have to rely on the soil and the life I can support in it.

Lots of foods support this soil life, such as Kelp and other seaweeds and fish feeding the life in the soil. Raw milk has also been used as a great soil food. The fish products I've mentioned before were partially cold processed, and were from part or whole fish instead of the typical unknown and heat processed byproducts that are largely useless and potentially contaminated with a multitude of chemicals.

With all this in mind,
There is a new product available from Green Pasture that I'm very excited to try!!

http://www.greenpasture.org/public/Products/Byproductsfarmproductsfishandbait/index.cfm

Liquid Fish Soil Rescue
This is a by-product of fermentation of the fish livers.  The product is liquid and can flow through both residential and commercial sprayers.  It can be applied on the soil or directly on foliage.  It is most commonly sold in 1 gallon, 5 gallon, 55 gallon drums, 250 gallon totes or tankers.
Discussion:  It is run through a 100 mesh filter prior to shipping.  Most view products to apply to the soil in terms of N P K.  But the real secrete, in this living soil additive, is it stirs the discussion pot on the topic of true soil fertility.  is it NPK or is it bacteria.
 A bio chemist, that specializes in the production of bio fertilizer, called me and provided the following description of soil and nutrients.
' Soil has x lb's of bacteria in the top 6" .  Lets call it 3000 lb's per acre of bacteria for a starting value (soil will be different depending on the amount of chemical used, soil type and weather).  When bacteria die off they give  15% of their weight in nitrogen, 3% phosphorus and 1% potassium.  When conditions and food are perfect bacteria can double in count every 15 min.  It does not take much  to put out 200 lb's of nitrogen through bacteria if you feed your soils/bacteria.'
What is the perfect foods for bacteria?  They need protein, sugars, water.  For explosive bacterial growth vitamin B's and enzymes need to be considered.     Liquid Fish Soil rescue is an excellent living food for your soil.  We do not destroy the enzymes or change the product through any other heating / processing steps... it purely fermented.
Visit the consulting page if you would like to broaden the discussion on possible ways to use  this product on your soil/plants.

Let me know if any of you try this! I'd love to hear about it!


Side Note:
NPK is the sequence most commonly associated with gardening: It can stir up quite the conversations! Here is my favorite tidbit regarding the "N" :
Nitrogen is found in nature and is changed into a usable form by Volcanoes, Lightening (,...comes down in rain), and Microorganisms! (Nitrogen fixation! such as with legumes)
If the soil is rich with life, then we are blessed up top by the nitrogen :) - And I love a good Summer storm's rain for greening up my garden :)

Fermented Cod Liver Oil review needed

Perhaps you're aware of the profound differences between Cod Liver Oil in it's Viking Traditional Fermented Purity and the fake illusion that is typically sold by those who don't know any better yet.  oh wait, I can't stop there, so I guess you'll get my rant:
"Typical" Fish oil is just damaged oils, yes there is unmistakable benefit, but it plateaus and only carries limited benefits. It has only a tiny list of actual nutrients much of which has been damaged by heat, processing, chemicals or even the acclaimed "molecular distillation" that ruined it for me.  It is a split food, a partial glimpse of the whole fish.
Fish Liver Oil has an increased scope of benefit esp when just compared by label on the bottle.... but it is also a split food that has been damaged and plateaus,  hopefully before it causes damage because of and (likely depending on the individual body) via it's synthetic additives. -- Notice: It isn't even just food - Sadly it is another food that has been adopted too much as just a profit making tool and instead of being what it should be it instead has been altered and unwritten on its label attempts to look like the real thing by merely matching some well published number goal.

The real thing is the uncommonly found and strikingly unique Fermented Fish Liver Oil:
This is the kind that isn't included on any comparison in the typical nutrition book or pamphlet and isn't included in the big market studies.  This is the real thing that even Norway has stopped most of it's production of. --- Instead, this is the kind that modestly placed itself in World acknowledgment and continuing survival from becoming History, maintaining it's reclaim by it's very real results in those aware enough to take it and discover it's profound benefits! 
It is just the real Liver, slowly, 'cold' fermented the way they've done it successfully for thousands of years - learned in the same region and from descendants of this heritage.

The ONLY company I know of still making it completely the traditional way is Green Pasture. They are great!  Lately I've been reaping the benefits from the Fermented Skate Liver Oil.  I have family members that love it as their joint supplement (and the elimination of their joint pain)
(buy in bulk with friends for a discounted price)

My little one's are "tough enough" to take it and smile. Why do grown men shirk? I'm reminded of Mark Twain's character Aunt chasing down Tom to get him his dose for his own good.  Perhaps a little more maturity is needed in our current generation of caretakers.

Many of the great historical cultures had one sacred food which they relied on to ensure strong mind, body, and spirit; fermented fish/fish liver oil. The Mighty Roman Soldier was given a daily ration of fermented fish oil. The Stoic Scandinavian Viking had a drum of fermenting cod livers outside the door of his home. Grandma always had a bottle of cod liver oil in the back cupboard. link

 Perhaps you've learned the benefits of fermentation and/or raw products such as the increase of nutrients and the enzymes and probiotic life in other foods such as sauerkraut/kimchi or yogurt.  Well, suppressing that sidetrack, this is similar.

And the list of nutrients is amazing.  That slow fermentation process ripe with living organisms has increased and enlarged it's density.  It has more than just the Vitamins listed on the label (One has to request which Form of Vitamin D is to be tested when sent to a lab.) This FCLO, of the Vitamin A and Ds tested, is "off the chart" in comparison to typical Fish liver oil on store shelves. But in addition to that, there is over 150 different types of Naturally occurring Vitamin A AND D.  Also, Because of the process of that fermented life, It is also a source of Vit K2 - something our diets are severely deficient in as well. (likely the X factor that facilitates the Minerals and such in our bodies - ie. beautiful teeth/ smiles/structures of the "Natives" that are so elusive now)

And that's just a glimpse of the fat soluble vitamins present.... A brief mention of the fat profile is equally impressive.  How many types should you be taking? Let's see, Omega 3, maybe 6, DHEA, CoQ, glucosamines for joints, antidepressants, painkillers, hormones, cholesterol control, etc?.....
.........Well, A tiny little dose of this Fermented Fish Liver Oil just blew your array of supplements out of the water! and with no synthetic attempts, fillers, or partials of a whole.  This is a seriously potent and dense whole food source of all them with their cofactors that we're unlikely to even heard of.... let alone understand!
Omega 3, 6, 7, 9, 12 in great ratios
Quinones, Vit E, Vit K, CoQ Enzymes
Vit A, Vit D, EPA, DHA,
Minerals, Life, Glucosamine, ETC!

Try it and discover the famine you've been in.... Every cell in your body and brain needs these nutrients!

Water

I decided that a post about water should be in included here.

• Water is one of the basics that we depend on. It is needed for every function in our body for life; It is needed for the delivery of life and the removal of death.
  We need water to mobilize everything in the body and in our over toxic world, it may be the most important thing we intake for long term health.
• It is a basic need that should be considered during problem solving as well. ( I have __________ symptom.  Maybe it is because of ________? SEE link to book/site Water Cure. "You're not sick, you're thirsty" --  And I can vouch for his saying that a symptom of chronic thirst is lack of the sensation of feeling thirst. )
• There is a balance of water that needs to be maintained and balanced with the nutritional needs of the body.  Typically people just plain don't drink enough, but as metabolic needs ebb and flow in your body, you may need to be cautious about when and how much you drink.... Just remember adding more water to a soup thins it out - at some point it is too much, but without enough, then it isn't even soup.  (sugar and salt balances in the body needs to be maintained - sometimes a can of coconut water is in order ....times of day make a difference too.)
  On the simple view for improved decision making:
  drink (wet your mouth), then drink some more ("ehh, that's enough" = crossing the threshhold from chronic habits), then drink some more ("oh! that feels better" = finally getting enough), and then drink more (ok, now I feel topped off and my body is getting used to the new feeling so that I can always drink the sufficient amount), And then the "true not-feeling-like" drinking more.
• The type of water is often brought up.... This kind of filtering or that, etc. Really, as long as it is clean, then it is water. Sanitation is number one - An area where the only water source is downstream from an open 'toilet' is not clean water.  If there were an emergency, then clean water would become a focus.
  However, for a lifetime of drinking the "other" stuff in the water starts being a bit more important than basic survival.  Heavy water is heavy because of an abundance of mineral and other substance dissolved in water.  Remember making crystals it had to be a super saturated solution. Water can hold A LOT.  And not all of that is equal. Nor are we trying to grow crystals especially of only one type in our bodies! (that would be called a stone.  :) ~~~ )
• Depending on how far you have delved into the world and it's energies this subject can be very short or very long.  I don't think this is the place, nor do I have the time to attempt a summary.  Suffice it to say that, at the very least, everything has electric charge (remember the periodic table of elements and electrons?) and this applies to water, what is in it, and the abilities it would have in your body.   And be grateful for the water you are so blessed to have!
• Side note on Fluoride - here's is a link to update what you've heard about fluoride in water - remember if we go to a someone and offer to buy their trash, they will probably sell it to you. (even if you are of the mind that it is needed for your teeth, then remember that it is sold as rat poison because rats don't swoosh and spit... my suggestion is to at least stop eating and swallowing fluoride, minimize it to the one area you feel it would have a less negative effect on the whole body/thyroid, etc and remember that detoxing from fluoride is NOT pretty, but eating seaweed over time will help with a slow detox and an increase in health, energy, beauty, and organ capabilities.)
• A lot of the different nutrition and health 'Dr. Greats' I have read about and learned from in recent  years say that distilled is best.  Minerals are best for our body when integrated in a nutrient dense food.  Water is best when it is NOT super saturated.  It is meant to transport life and death in our bodies remember?  So a water that is, for example 50% saturated already has only 50% capacity to carry things in your body. Distilled water is ~100% open and active, ready to satisfy all your transportation needs at top capacity.  :)  If you are trying to absorb minerals better then make your tea and take your supplements such as min66 with distilled water!
• [some of]  My new habits,.... :)
  I have been drinking a full glass (try for over 2 cups) of distilled water in the morning a few moments after I finish oil pulling.  Then Wait a moment, (my body feels the difference) and then drink a full glass of our regular filtered water with ConcenTrace drops.  The process is very refreshing and then, And only after having water, do I eat anything. 
  Other alternatives: Even if you don't do the cleansing routine of oil pulling, and just the distilled
  OR even just ANY amount of water BEFORE eating, then you are giving your body a great boost right at the start of the nights "fast" that you are breaking.   
• Drinking before eating gives your body a chance to rehydrate before having to start the work of digestion.  Trying to transport enzymes, bile, and nutrients from digestion before hydration would be a laborious and sluggish process compared to a free flowing vibrant flow of hydrated liquids.
  The other reason I choose to do this in the morning is because our bodies are in cleaning mode in the morning (Chinese medicine I think it was) is from 6am to noon. (and from what I understand and believe is happening all night. I think a lot of emotion and mental, is "dealt" with during night/sleep.) 
  An evidence to this that I've experienced is the fact that Oil pulling only works if you have allowed any food or water to even touch your lips - If I wash my face and get my lips wet (lips are part of the mouth = food/water contact with your mouth tells the digestive system to get ready, enzymes rush to the mouth etc) before I oil pull then it doesn't even work as well, if at all.  (If I do forget, I try to pull my lips in to keep them dry as soon as I remember and it seems to work ok.)
  Once we start eating then we start digesting.  Eating processed foods in the morning puts even more energy and effort into digestion relative to their level of processing (junk food is not food, there is just junk or food....). The more raw, then the more enzymes and "self digestion" can happen, the less raw (more processed) then the more your body has to put into digesting it.  Same with whole foods vs processed/stripped foods.

What?? Did you expect a post on water filters??  Well, perhaps another day.  I would have too much to say for my time today.

• Silver and copper are great for cleaning water = killing all kinds of cooties.  I'd love to learn how to do it myself, but there are also filters that have silver in them already.
• (Water can be sterilized in a solar oven.)  
• Ozone, with it's super short, super active 'life', breaks down all types of things = Mother Nature's pollution control!.  
• There is an abundance of filters easily available that catch the particles (99.9 is NOT enough,  it needs to have more 9s after that decimal!)
• There are many ways of cleaning and filtering water, depending on your preferences.
• I'm working on slowly learning about distillers.  

Update: Impressive water filter  http://www.righthererightnow.co/  AquaPail I was able to handle this personally at an expo recently and can definitely say it is in a whole category of it's own!  :D

Are you an addict? to what?

What will it be like when the time comes to use your food storage?  Will your depression, irritability, anxiety, or moodiness, (etc) become the predominant face of your personality? or will your food be able to allow you to thrive?  Does your food storage support your cycle of dependency? or are you going to go through withdrawals and/or crash and burn?

How about this as an alternative?!

1. Store healthy, live supporting foods that you can live and thrive on.  They are the basics used by people before industrial times - like the majority of time on this planet.  And are still used by healthy people today!!  Ignore all the expensive fancy packages for now. Ignore the most recent hypes and just get your basics covered. 
2. Take the mood cure questionnaire from here (has 5 categories) or Ross' book The Mood Cure and target your addictions, dependencies, controlling habits, depression and physical hangups from an amino acid perspective. 
   (Naturally any and all addictions, habits, etc are physical and spiritual and should be addressed from a WHOLE perspective). Releasing yourself from these will allow you to live life NOW and make changes you've been "choosing to procrastinate" while you've been shackled by them.)
3. Now, start eating your food storage - and restocking, of course. Remember that the amino acids are a temporary supplement plan to bring those amino acid reserves up to par.  The body's health should be maintained with God's whole foods.

 So what are the planet's traditional foods? Plants and animals (as you choose), not nifty looking stuff forced from a machine and boxed up for a nice subsidized price or market 'value'.
 The value is in foods that common sense and experience dictate as good for you.

1. "Plants" = leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds (oil/mineral rich fruits - if eaten whole are sprouted or soaked to turn into leaves/roots) including seaweed (in abundance esp. if the next section is limited)
2. "Animals" = whole (meat + fat + bone/bone broth + organs) or products (eggs + milk + butter + cheese)

Best Periodical, ever!?

I think it might be and I don't know why I waited so long to request my own... 

ACRES USA

Their website alone is a goldmine of information and fascinating perspectives - See Archive.  The Greats they've introduced to me are kept alive here and what they contributed to the science and traditions are still being tried and advanced.  Acres, to me, is an arena where maintaining their integrity is valued and makes possible the integration of a new generation of Greats (recognize this name?)
 The periodical is what I expected it to be and I read every page - It's nice when even the ads are interesting (although they of course become redundant at some point)   Now, if only they had a library for their extensive list of books.

Organic was never so easy

sigh, my nice long post got lost in deleted computer land -
The short version
search the words "high brix", nutrient dense, acresUSA (their toolkit archives has great articles)

I spray sea90 on my plants (leaves, flowers, fruits,...etc) for an immediate nutrient boost - the 90+ minerals gives nutrient density that the bugs can't stand  - They move on to scavenge weak plants elsewhere.
I bought it from Azure Standard along with the fish emulsion, (although I prefer sweetcornorganics', I ration that one in the name of frugality :) - it is 100% cold processed whole fish, not a heated or byproduct or ....etc ) - it works great with the same company's seaweed which I posted about here....
and the Thorvin kelp (which is best just sprinkled around the yard - feeds the micro-life and provides the phytochemicals, hormones, and mineral ratios (iodine,..)) of the kelps available is the one I've used in bulk.

So onto more aspects: Also this year I'm excited to try a blend of microorganisms that I need to inoculate and then spray onto the soil - it even has one that eats chemicals from previous applications/residues...!  But micro organisms just doin' their thing is the soil is what gives the plants their nutrients; They 'eat' the nutrients in the soil and create/turn it into a form that the plants can then use!  Nitrogen fixation is one of the most commonly heard phrases of that action, but it is by far not the only one .....but since I brought that up:

Nitrogen is one of those nutrients that we just can't seem to get enough of in our gardens - perhaps because we've strayed so far from Nature.   WWII stimulated weapons, chemical processes, and technological advances that left us with synthetic nitrogen and fertilizers.  I, personally, am trying to grow real plants, not synthetic plants ;),   and so am interested in where plants have been getting nitrogen since before half a century ago.   Well, that is from a short list :)  Lightening, volcanoes, and microorganisms - I looked for a few concise sources for you to read that briefly - so go ahead, I'll continue when you get back from Here and Here .....
 It also turns out that by using synthetic nitrogen and fertilizers that we kill the microorganisms in the soil.... and not just the nitrogen creating ones.   And it isn't like the microorganisms just walk back in off the next bus. There is a whole world under our feet that we need to be respectful of and aware that (hopefully) they outnumber us and we can't live on planet earth without them so let's feed them and show them a little respect.

(These amendments are a blended source of some great stuff - nutrients and such that can help restore and amend the soil to recoup from previous synthetic damage. see previous post)

So here are my words for motivation: remember that organic begets organic, synthetic begets synthetic.
And since I want to keep my organic self alive without a synthetic organ replacement or supplement I know where I want to start.  lol

Anyone else wishing they'd actually bought canned butter?

I found out about canned butter and cheese years ago - first weirded out by it (really rare here in the US) and then excited by it -, but I never actually bought it. Then I wished I had already when the price increased (slightly) and it was 'always' our of stock... I knew I'd regret it if didn't then but I didn't..... and now I'm there; I regret not buying that "overpriced" butter. Well, sigh, butter in the fridge section now costs more per pound than the canned butter did just a few years ago. (canned butter, dented for discount)

canning your own - I think that melting the butter first and skimming off the milk proteins ("clarified butter", ghee) and then canning just the oil may be a good way to go about it. The benefits of raw butter went away at the butter stage anyway, so might as well eliminate the portion that is more likely to be problematic. mmmm, the imagery of all that liquid gold on a shelf.

And as for cheese - I'm sure that is just as apparent to all of you in price increase.

When the people relinquished their freedoms to the gov't over and over in our past generations they sure weren't thinking of the future. And now we have a big scarred tangled web that is going to have to fall before the masses are willing to tear it down and straighten it out.
[educate yourself! recent subsidies in US and abroad, nutrition replaced by big power holders,...)

But while the masses catch up and the knowledgeable reject the truth there are some that are there still doing it right and so I do still have a source for raw grass fed butter that "I suppose" is still "cheap" enough. (How much longer will we have groups such as these be able to source it for us?!)
But I HAVE to track down cheese wax for a "cheap enough" price if I'm going to do that. So anyone have any ideas?! Yes, I know, I can buy it on the internet. (wax) I just have to make it happen. ( waxing cheese - many others are even better)

....and in the meantime, I'm going to keep my peepers [eyes] open for info on raising goats :)

Beef and peanut butter shortages

I have contemplated posts on these, but haven't had the time to compose the facts. I happened upon a blog today that did this better than I can.

http://preparednesspro.com/

Which gives me time to mention a few other factoids regarding Being smart when spending your money. We want to use our hard earned funds (after saving everything we can) to fill our homes with products that will benefit, not entertain or go out with the trash when it breaks or falls out of favor when the whim is over.

One: WATCH for better than average Prices and spend money! :) The beef at your grocery store might be having some really good prices (or already did) on at least some of the cuts at the time(s) that the markets are flooded with cattle downsizing. (get it?: drought kills grass = less grass on ranches = fewer cows they can feed = they are taken to market = you might be getting a higher percentage of grass fed before the cost of everything else pushes the lesser desirable feed lot cows are sent to market)
So, please keep your pocket book closed when in the superfluous fluff and fashion sections so that you can stock up on extra food when it is there looking at you in the case - flaunting it's ability to feed you and provide benefit when you no long want or can to choose between the two.

Which brings me to the second factoid. Beef and Peanut Butter aren't the only products that have been and will be increasing substantially in price. The price increase across the board has been as much added together as one of these on it's own in my neck of the woods. And that isn't been something that's been picked up by reporters and published with the grocery ads. (Must we always wait for someone else to look for us?)
I'm sure we are all more than aware of the shrinking ice cream (and now "frozen dessert" because it isn't even real food) cartons and ever higher prices. (the same is being done in other areas now that they have proven our ignorance and complacency - 3# bags instead of 5# bags, 10 count instead of 12...)
But there are other methods being used as well. Walmart brand has been adding corn syrup to the canned beans for years now. And you thought they were cheaper!? no, they are just padding it elsewhere and they are just selling you less bean in the same size/weight can.... and the filler isn't even neutral, it's an addictive poison.
This isn't "just business"; In my opinion, this is personal. Instead of honest upfront product sales, ...more than one someone is making immoral choices and deception that public has to wake up from and choose to see. We need to at least read labels before parting with or tossing our money at the products we bring home. We still have that as consumers, even if they don't expect the masses to read, we have the individual choice to break the trend and inform ourselves.

So, Ditch that pretty paper (responsibly - to a good purpose, not the bulk garbage bin) you bought last year and instead stock the shelf with edibles that are as good as gold.

Where did you say I could find that?

Healthy food does not have to be expensive. Any food bought in a special little package marketed toward a spontaneous purchase or specialty shopper is bound to be expensive. Just as the mainstream foods bought in bulk are cheaper if planned for, then so are traditional foods.

I have been building a price sheet comparing my most common stores. It is not necessarily accurate or updated since my last need to compare an item.
If you know the responsible farmer of a product then likely that would be the top source.

But where did I find ____..... and at a price that was actually affordable?

Generally, Azure Standard is where I end up making my planned bulk purchases. Essentially they are an internet based grocery store with every department including fresh and frozen produce. They have a wide range of foods that satisfy nearly every category of food enthusiast: whole foodie, special diet needs or allergy free foods, organic, fad, and even just plain and simple traditional foods. The registration of a username to see prices/place an order has no lingering effects or even a single email with advertisement.

Azure Standard does not charge shipping and delivers to neighborhoods if you meet a minimum order amount. Contact them for up to date details. If you are local to me, in San Tan Ranch, then I have a drop site (unlisted) that you are welcome to use; just contact me via the email in the side bar and we can arrange an order/drop. - Be advised: They are still improving their logistical and inventory systems AND they work on a Geographically based delivery schedule that is on a one month cycle (they only deliver to you once a month)