Food, Soil and Farm Health
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Healing With Wholefoods
This book comes highly recommended by Louisa.
It’s a practitioners journal and in depth discovery into the world of Chinese Medicine and the foundations of Food Medicine and Elemental Healing. For those with Digestive issues, the chapter on The Earth Element and Spleen will offer much help, and is the roots of Rosa’s healing journey and Earth Kitchen. Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It’s also a primer on nutrition-including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the “regeneration diets” used by cancer patients and arthritics-along with an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes.The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses. It’s smartly paired with the whole-foods program because the Chinese have attributed various health-balancing properties to foods, so you can tailor your diet to help alleviate symptoms of illness. The diet is certainly acetic (no alcohol, caffeine, white flour, fried foods, or sugar, and a minimum of eggs and dairy) but the reasons he gives for avoiding these “negative energy” foods are compelling. From the adrenal damage imparted by coffee to immune dysfunction brought on by excess refined sugar, Pitchford spurs you to rethink every dietary choice and its ultimate influence on your health. Without being alarmist, he adds dietary tips for protecting yourself against the dangers of modern life, including neutralizing damage from water fluoridation (thyroid and immune-system problems may result; fluoride is a carcinogen). There’s further reading on food combining, female health, heart disease, pregnancy, fasting, and weight loss. Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who’s serious about strengthening his or her body from the inside out.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/healing-with-whole-foods-paul-pitchford/book/9781556434716.html
The Way of the Five Seasons
A guide to living the seasons in harmony, the Chinese wisdom tradition way, the book deeply explores the connections between the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual levels of human experience. Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to using the Five Element model in your daily life in ways that can improve your physical health, foster mental ease and clarity, create more emotional balance, and bring you closer to spirit. Having introduced the philosophical and practical principles of the Five Elements, the author invites you to ‘live the book’, immersing yourself in the many aspects of each Element during its corresponding season. He offers a range of methods of doing this, including activities such as movement, cooking, gardening, journaling, visualisation, meditation, dialogue and self-acupressure. In working with each Element, he explores the three levels or expressions of human life – the physical (structures, organs, tissues and systems), the psycho-emotional (thoughts, beliefs, self-images, emotions and reactions), and the spirit. Detailed information is provided on each Element’s specific attributes, associations, resonances and gifts, and anatomical illustrations are included for further guidance. An invaluable reference book for practitioners and students of Chinese Medicine who hope to become better practitioners to others, the book also provides the means to become a practitioner to yourself. Market: Practitioners, students and patients of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), general readers interested in healing themselves with natural methods or for healing beyond simply physical symptoms.
Zac Bush MD
Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. Dr Zach founded *Seraphic Group and the nonprofit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and planet.
zachbushmd.com
Farmers Footprint Australia
At Farmers Footprint Australia, we believe that regenerative farming holds some of the most powerful solutions to our increasing environmental and health challenges which is why we seek to bring awareness to these solutions and redefine our connection to the land.
farmersfootprint.org.au
Vandanas Shiva
Besides being a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of numerous books, Vandana Shiva is a tireless defender of the environment. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights, along with Seed Freedom and preservation. She is also the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy.
Shiva fights for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food:
“I don’t want to live in a world where five giant companies control our health and our food.”
https://www.navdanya.org/
https://vandanashivamovie.com/
Southern Cross Certified Australia (SXC)
Welcome to Australia’s newest and most progressive organic and sustainable agricultural certification company. has been formed in response to a client and consumer driven need for an easy, simple, service driven and cost effective, certification body.
Our vision is of a certification body that provides you with peace of mind certification; that can assist you in obtaining certification to a range of organic and sustainable agricultural standards; and that these standards allow you to access a more diverse range of higher value National and International markets.
sxcertified.com.au
Harvest Owl Farm
Harvest Owl is a gorgeous small farm from whom we source some of the most glorious, shining healthy Calendula flowers we’ve ever seen! They make their own Face Plant creme and sell an abundance of flowers around the area of Nambucca and Bellingen.
They are growers of food who feel strongly about the importance of reconnecting people with where and
https://www.facebook.com/harvestowlvalla