App B – Food

Food
Traditionally in your country people put up (preserved) food and ate seasonally. They cooked what they grew. They baked their own bread. People shared recipes. Consider going back to that model as much as you can. This will require a slower paced, reduced stress lifestyle. This is achievable with cultural changes and changes in legislation.

Grow a garden, with disruptions in the supply chain and farm land being purchased by Xarmists (*potentially) it is beneficial to be prepared. (*Your news sometimes contains contradictory and false information.) Also food that you grow yourself will be healthier as you will be less likely to spray it with pesticides and herbicides. Plant food forests for harvests year after year. Do this in the country, suburbia and the city. Have produce swaps with friends and neighbors. Aim to produce as much as you can or buy from local sources. Have multiple food sources.

There is a learning curve when growing food. Some foods will grow easily for you, some won’t. Variances in soil type, nutrients available, temperature, length of day, sun, wind, rain, and pest pressure will affect results. When or if you change locations that new place will likely have different conditions, you will have to learn what works best there.

Buy from local farmers if you can afford it so they stay in business.

Consider purchasing through a CSA. Split it with friends, family or neighbors if there is too much food. It’s possible that there are both vegetable and meat options available in your area. You could also purchase a steer, pig, sheep or goat to be raised for you. These can also be split between households.

Participate in seed swaps.

Naturally grown foods will have blemishes. Expect to cut pieces out.

Container garden if you can’t plant in the ground. This is good for small yards where most of it is septic and leach field.

Its good to eat organic when you can, but naturally grown food can be just as good. To be labeled organic an expensive certification is required. That expense is passed on to the consumer. Natural doesn’t mean not organic, possibly it just means not certified or that diatomacious earth was used. Get a feel for the farmer, ask about their practices. Ask to see the farm. Determine for yourself.

Avoid using chemicals on your vegetables. It’s not especially good for you and will kill good bugs too. Try organic or natural options, use netting.

Research fertilizers. Plants only need nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to be healthy. You need more than that. Try to feed your plants the same nutrients that you need. Stems of leafy greens tend to hold more minerals than the leafy parts, endeavor to eat those too.

If you have the space and resources grow some food outside of fencing to share with wild life.

If you have the space grow extra, give the surplus away or put it out at a farm stand at the end of your driveway. Install a money box for donations. Trust people to be honorable.

Learn to preserve foods. Freeze, can, dehydrate, freeze dry, ferment.

Learn about some foods that were replaced by chemical remedies.
Dried plums/prunes are a traditional suggestion for constipation. Magnesium rich foods can help too. Have you ever eaten too many sunflower seeds and had loose stools? Magnesium can be calming and help with sleep too.
Ginger is said to settle tummies. Traditional cold aids are homemade chicken soup and ginger ale. Chicken soup can be very nutritious and will provide extra nutrition if made with bone broth. Bone broth can be made with left over chicken bones, a splash of vinegar (partially breaks down the bone to release minerals) veggies like carrots and celery and some time in either a slow cooker or a pressure cooker.
Poke around the mesh and read books, whole or unprocessed foods can be as potent as or better than over the counter medicines. They are usually better for you.

Diet – Omnivorous, carnivorous, vegetarian and vegan (physical and spiritual)
From an energetic perspective, food grown with care whether animal or vegetable is better for you than industrially grown food. Vegetables have a less dense energy.
Meat, especially red meat, is nutrient dense.
Unprocessed foods hold on to more of their digestible nutrients than processed foods.
Some ‘food’ items are processed from waste from another item. Some ‘food’ items are entirely manufactured. These items generally offer no nutritional value. If a ‘food’ item is entirely or mostly manufactured should it be considered like a supplement or drug? How do these items interact with your biology?
If you bless your food before you eat, how do you do it? Are you thanking the deity that provided it? Are you asking that it be beneficial for you and your family and friends? Are you thanking the plants and animals for the life that they give you? Are you thanking the people that helped get it to your plate? Do you believe that the plants and animals give their lives voluntarily or is there guilt for the life taken? Consider that plants and animals choose this path of service. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction in the physical. What if it’s the same in the spiritual? Its a tremulous sacrifice to give your life for the benefit of another, the benefit received in return must be enormous.
You have an expression ‘You are what you eat.’ It is also you, because it becomes you. Your culture has stories about organ recipients taking on traits of the donor. In some cultures warriors used to eat the hearts of their defeated enemies after battle. They believed that it gave them the beneficial attributes. Part of them lives on in the eater. The energy holds a memory. Its like entanglement at the quantum level.

If you have the room and resources learn to compost your leaves, lawn clippings and kitchen scraps. Put the local nutrients back into the land. Comfrey pulls minerals from deep in the earth and holds it in the leaves. Some people grow it and add it to their compost.

Start a worm farm (vermi-composting) with your children. Make it a learning experience. The mesh is a good resource for information. There are videos available showing worms working in clear sided containers that might be interesting to children. Use or sell the compost.
For the entrepreneurs, people have supported themselves selling compost and worm tea from basement worm farms. If done correctly there is no foul odor or bugs. Do the research. Worms are animals.

In other time lines some of the lands became depleted of nutrients. Some of the obesity in those time lines were the result of this. The body didn’t get what it needed so it wanted more. There may have been be other gut issues from chemical additives or pesticides/herbicides that made nutrient absorption difficult that added to this problem. You should find out if this is true or not in your time line. If it is, an effort should be made to revitalize the lands. If it is needed, an effort should be made to grow foods that are good for your people so that they can achieve better health.

Most current large scale farming practices are not sustainable – Look into practices like permaculture, hugelkultur and other restorative practices. There are many people teaching these skills, there may be classes in your area or available on the mesh. Some mesh content is free.
These practices can be scaled down for smaller farmers, there are other techniques and methods that people have come up with like square foot gardening, ‘no till’ and the back to Eden method. Not every method will fit every situation, look around see what is out there, try something new.
For entrepreneur types in the city look for business models for urban farming on rented land in the city. There is good content available on the mesh. Courses are offered.

Healthy gardens require animal inputs (manure, blood and bone meal). You need both plants and animals for a healthy ecosystem. Is an effort being made to get you to eat bugs instead of meat? The vegetables will be affected without animal inputs. It is difficult to garden with only vegan inputs. If you are doing well growing vegetables consider also raising animals for meat, eggs, manure and security. Rabbits, hens (possibly a rooster if you get it a collar), and quail are quiet animals. Check the local ordinances. Get them changed if you need to. If you live in an agricultural zone or village work up to goats, pigs, cows, sheep, ducks, geese, and other farm animals. Many types of animals (geese and doggos) are good alarms for when there is trouble, Some larger animals, like donkeys, can serve as predator protection as well.
Social media is a good place to find community that can offer guidance.
Don’t use the composted manure of animals that live with you for food plants. There is a risk of pathogens. Also don’t plant gardens over septic or leach fields. Non-edibles are okay in these areas.

There was a story in one of the time lines about large companies patenting genetically modified seeds. When those seeds were planted next to heirloom seeds the plants grow and can cross pollinate. The seeds produced from the heirloom plants were ruined. It was illegal to sell gmo seeds to the public. The large company furthered the damage to the smaller farmer by suing for patent infringement if the resulting seed was planted as a crop. It was theft and could even be considered a form of warfare. Is this also happening in your time line?