Zero Carb Keto: Mimicking Nature

One of the grassfed farmers in the area from whom I have not yet purchased, recently made some YouTube videos. This series of videos tours their pastures, explains the importance of soil health, and describes how they try to mimic nature as much as possible.

I was thinking more about this idea, of trying to mimic nature, and maintaining the health of the soil.

Agriculture is really antithetical to this. Even small-scale, pesticide-free agriculture, still involves tearing open the soil year after year, having to replant over and over again, and add supplemental fertilizer to try and replace the nutrients that are continuously depleted.

Instead of the multitude variety of species, including insects, worms, microbes, etc., that would naturally be present in the soil, agriculture aims to replace that with only species: your intended crop.

This is not only very devastating to the health of the soil, but everything grown on that soil will be nutrient depleted, plus there is all the tedious work of constantly trying to combat nature at every turn.

Instead I think of an intact woodland or savannah. There, the soil is rich and healthy, and there is no need to supplement, or till, or fertilize. As many grassfed bison ranchers say, their main goal is healthy grassland.  The bison is part of that. This is a very crucial way to return the health to the land and live more naturally.

In the eastern woodlands, a hunter-gatherer approach might be needed, since there may not be quite enough hunting and fishing alone for sustenance. But foraging instead of tilling would still allow for soil integrity.

Another crucial part for maintaining soil integrity is to not use chemicals or plastics. No matter how careful we all might be, the toxins from plastics and chemicals (even in our clothes) end up in the water, and hence in the soil and then into our food.

As customers, we need to vote with our dollar and purchase the products that do not use plastics, chemicals, mining, tilling, etc. that cause harm to the integrity of the soil. This would require a shift back to much more simple technologies. But that would allow the soil to heal and return to its natural state.

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