Re: eating seasonally, etc.

[Guest guest]

Carolyn-

> Traditional diets didn't rely on refrigeration or long distance

> transport. As advocates of Weston Price's work, we need to pay more

> attention to the seasonality of food; even milk, meat, and eggs.

In terms of minimizing our environmental impact, of course,

seasonality is important. Price, however, had little to say on

environmental impact, and he certainly noted an increase in heart

attacks during cold parts of the year which reduced the availability

of nutritious butter. Also, as the bulk of our evolution occurred in

equatorial climes, none of us may be fully adapted to winter, though

some of us probably are more than others. Then again, that fails to

address the nutritional quality of winter foods, which further

complicates everything, so it's safe to say there are no easy answers.

-

[Guest guest]

That is true, but I sure miss and crave greens this time of year. I still

buy leaf lettuce imported from California, that costs an arm and a leg too.

Alvin and I talked about greenhouses, but heating is expensive. I make

sprouts. Alvin¹s frozen broccoli helps. I planted, gathered, and bought,

froze, raspberries and blueberries last summer. I am just now running out.

When we re-do our kitchen, I might put in a window box or something for leaf

lettuce in winter. We get great south sun. I grew wheat grass for chickens

this winter in a planter. It is a learning process.

My hens from Alvin each gave me a daily brown egg all winter. I don¹t know

that eggs are seasonal, except in wildlife. I didn¹t even put the solar

light on. I used an old portable dog kennel run and wrapped it like a hoop

house for winter. Inside that, we have a small chicken wood house. Between

the sun coming through the hoop house, good genetics, young ³Henrietta¹s²,

and all the leftovers I feed those ladies, I got 28 eggs a week from four

hens all winter long. Bright orange yokes too.

I¹m just starting to clean out the makeshift hen house. In a true chicken

tractor, the ladies compost all winter. I¹m just now starting to pull the

old bedding hay to mulch my terra preta garden. I am sure looking forward to

garden greens.

Kathy

on 3/4/08 9:57 AM, Carolyn Graff at zgraff@... wrote:

>

>

>

>

> http://www.rlocalfarm.com/fallonletter.htm

>

> an excerpt:

>

> Traditional diets didn't rely on refrigeration or long distance

> transport. As advocates of Weston Price's work, we need to pay more

> attention to the seasonality of food; even milk, meat, and eggs.

>