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Jamie Oliver’s food revolution students visiting the Castelen Community Farm at Mt Tambourine Queensland..
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Student visits at Castelen Community Faqrm Mt Tambourine.
Jamie Oliver is a world renown advocate for eating healthy food, so we were excited when 5 Eagleby State School students and 2 of the teachers invited themselves to our farm to look at how we grow nutrient-rich food organically.
The students are involved with a Jamie Oliver program at their school where they have their own vegetable garden. Each week students help prepare a meal at the school using some of the food they grow. A Channel 10 TV crew from “Totally Wild” accompanied the students to record their visit to the Castelen Community farm on Tamborine Mtn.
After looking over the wide range of fruits and vegetables we grow and picking some limes and rhubarb to take back to the school, the boys and girls had a lot of questions.
We explained that we have hundreds of worm farms on the property and they were puzzled because they couldn’t find any. We explained that between its row of vegetables we create an environment where worms and soil microorganism thrive and multiply, and they were amazed to see the number of worms present when we turn over some of the soil in the furrows between the vegetal rows.
One student asked why we don’t use herbicides and prefer to hand weed. I explained that we don’t use herbicides because, whilst the job of herbicides is to kill unwanted weeds they also kill a large number of very important plant organisms including one-celled bacteria and fungi. These are vital parts of the soil food web.
The students were sceptical about this until they understood that the farmers role is to feed the soil microorganism with fertilisers and organic manure and the job of the worms and microorganisms is to feed the plants. Worms and microorganisms break down fertilisers and turn them into plant available food.
I explained that there were lots of other reasons why we don’t use herbicides most importantly independent research is showing that there are strong links between herbicides and disease such as obesity, depression, autism, infertility, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
This is because Glyphosate interferes with health-maintaining processes within our body. This goes against accepted dogma that Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is not harmful to humans or to other mammals and it is not a problem if food contains traces of it.
People forget that micro-organisms in the soil are vitally important to plant health just as micro-organisms in our gut are vitally important in maintaining health.
Many of today’s health issues can be traced back to a combination of impaired sulphur transport within the body, suppression of the function of a number of really important enzymes and gut dysfunction. Glyphosate residues in our body kill our friendly gut bacteria as do antibiotics and preservatives in processed food.
There numerous studies identifying how herbicides adversely affect our health. You can learn more about the fascinating link between agricultural poisons and their effect on human health by reading “Pathway to modern decease” in “Entropy”; 2012, 15, pp 1416-1463 available at www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy .
In spite of the reassurance by agricultural multinationals like Monsanto that agricultural poisons are safe, the evidence against them is overwhelming. This is the reason we don’t use them at Castelen Community Farm. We prefer to manage weeds without poisoning ourselves. Our purpose is to demonstrate how to grow huge quantities of nutrient-dense fruit and vegetables in small areas of land. We practice what we teach. For more information see below or visit our websites;
www.growinghealthyorganicfood.com
Bev Buckley Tamborine Mtn Queensland Ausatralia
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