Nutrient Dense Foods (Vegan)

Eating less, making every bite count, getting into shape
Taste - crunch - convenience

The superfood fruits and vegetables include carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, kale, spinach, berries, such as blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries, apples, bananas, cherries, pomegranate and oranges, figs, raisins or prunes, Oatmeal and whole grains, soy, beans, brown rice and wild rice.walnut, almonds,
Flax seed oil and olive oil, spices and herbs which are full of natural compounds, and seeds like sunflower and pumpkin. oatmeal and nuts.

Nutrient Dense Foods?

Nutrition Data - Know what you eat

Wise Tradition - The Quest for Nutrient-Dense Food -- High Brix Farming and Gardening

DiseaseProof - A Table of High-Nutrient Foods

Traditional Selective Breeding vs. GMO's

Traditional crops are modified thru Selective Breeding
GMO crops are engineered by having changes introduced into their DNA.

Say NO To GMO

Pharm Crops / Transgenic Crops

Altieri, Miguel A. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley International Workshop on the Ecological Impacts of Transgenic Crops, March, 2000

Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty

Miguel A. Altieiri

The Future of Food

Watch on hulu.com

White House to break ground on 'kitchen garden'

Obamas to Plant White House Vegetable Garden

WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.

While the organic garden will provide food for the first family’s meals and formal dinners, its most important role, Mrs. Obama said, will be to educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at time when obesity has become a national concern.

In an interview in her office, Mrs. Obama said, “My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities.”

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Allotments: a very British passion, Why not HERE!

Bloom and bust: tilling the soil is the perfect antidote to economic misery

Allotments were introduced by philanthropic Victorians to provide a healthy diet and lifestyle for factory workers – and today, when their appeal has crossed the class divide, they offer the same benefits. To nurture a tiny seed until it becomes a plump pumpkin or parsnip fulfils a basic human instinct; digging the first new potato is better for body and soul than turning into one on a couch in front of the TV or laptop.

Food and Magic, Grow your own Food!

Food and Magic - appropriate even now, though made in 1943



Garden of Eatin'


Kitchen Garden Day 2006

Gardening Organically

Here in Hawaii, we're lucky to have fruit growing wild all around us, just walk down the street and you'll find
mmm, a Mango tree, best taste in the world!

bananas, guava, papaya, avocado, mountain apples, oranges, grapefruit, lychee, and more!


I must admit, I get my produce at the neighborhood Farmer's Market, but maybe one day, I'll at least grow some herbs and tomatoes - easy!

Backyard Farming is an idea many dream of, so let's do it this spring.

There's alot to learn, but learning is fun - mostly.








Then there's the noni tree - worst taste, but 'good for you'.






Photos of food at Photos of Aloha


Here's another good site - with lots of gardeners from different locales.

Genetically Modified Organism's - GMO's

Behind the Headlines: GM Food
"No one can control what happens when genetic material from
different species is mixed -- like putting a gene from, say, a fish
into a plant. It might do what you want it to do, or it might change
the plant in unexpected ways and even make it poisonous."