Authentic Food and Nature Farming by Dr. Gabriel Cousens

The following is extracted from Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens. This article explains what authentic food and nature farming is to our readers and the importance of these principles.

Authentic Food

Authentic food is a concept that helps us absolutely optimize the idea of what quality food should be. The goal is to produce the most nutritious high-energy food possible while protecting the soil for future generations. The farmers that are involved in this adventure each year probe even deeper into the soil-plant-animal nutrition cycle and how to optimize it. Authentic foods stand in contrast to food giants who are beginning to take over the word “organic” and who do not understand the traditional small organic farmer’s commitment and energy involved in producing the highest quality food. The authentic approach is a response to the transition of organic food production from small farms to big time farming.

Authentic farming has to do with what we can do to add energy to food and soil, by love and devotion in its production. This allows us to absorb the highest energy from our food, which is the main way that we derive energy from the planet. Authentic food lifts food to a new level and quality.

The term authentic has to do with farmers who are focused on quality. It identifies fresh, organic food produced by local growers. The concept of authentic goes right down to the fundamentals of how food was offered in the past. These principles are:

1. all food is produced by the growers who sell it;
2. fresh fruits and vegetables are produced within a 50-150 mile radius of the place of their final sale;
3. seed and storage crops are produced within a 300-mile radius of their final sale;
4. the growers’ fields and greenhouses are open for inspection at any time and the customers themselves can be the certifiers of their food;
5. all of the agricultural practices used on the farm selling under authentic are chosen to produce food at the highest nutritional and vibrational qualities;
6. soils are nourished as they are in the natural world with farm derived organic matter, minerals, and particles from the ground rot;
7. green manures and cover crops are included with the broadly based crop rotations to maintain biodiversity;
8. pest positive rather than pest negative philosophy is involved, recognizing that pest appear when there is an imbalance, and focusing on how to correct the cause of the problem rather than treating the symptoms. This is a holistic approach to farming. The goal, of course, is vigorous, healthy crops that are endowed with inherent powers to resist pests.
9. Any authentic farm or garden land would be a genetically modified organism free zone.

The definition of authentic farming is local, seller grown, fresh, organic food which supports the health of the ecosystem, our bodies and the local economy.

Nature Farming

The basis of Nature Farming is an appreciation for the power of “living soil”, which is the key factor that makes the system sustainable and resilient. Living soil is created through the interaction of plants and the life of the soil, especially the microorganisms, earthworms, mites and countless other creatures. In the forests and prairies, living soil is created by the accumulation of plant debris from season to season.

Plants provide the food that serves as the primary production of these ecosystems, thereby supporting the extended food chains that develop there. Next to the plants, the microorganisms and other soil life are the most critical to the stability and productivity of the system. Microorganisms recycle the plant material and release nutrients to further promote plant growth. Microorganisms form symbiotic relationships with plant root systems and help provide nutrients, such as phosphorus, to plants in exchange for exudates from the plant root. Animals, from earthworms and mites, on up, dwell and feed upon the soil-plant complex. This is the natural scheme of things, and humans evolved from this ecological base.

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