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One of the best nutritional guides I have found
is Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions

Scott Pittman, Permaculture Institute

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A must-have book for the homesteader

Topics include

• the health benefits of traditional fats and oils (including butter and coconut oil)
• dangers of vegetarianism
• problems with modern soy foods
• health benefits of sauces and gravies
• proper preparation of whole grain products
• pros and cons of milk consumption
• easy-to-prepare enzyme enriched condiments and beverages
• ​and appropriate diets for babies and children
• more....

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Scott Pittman, Permaculture Institute

Sally Fallon has written extensively on the lack of fats in our modern diet which leads to an insufficiency in those vitamins that are fat soluble.   In my classes I read passages from Fallon’s book before lunch – even when the meal is vegetarian!  This is invaluable knowledge and those who refuse to consider it do so at their own health risk.

I use it to inform my permaculture classes especially when covering soils and the necessity of healthy soil for healthy food.

Sally’s work is based in part on the research of Dr. Weston Price whose curiosity about poor dental health led him around the world in a study of dentition among indigenous populations.   His findings were ground breaking and Sally Fallon has expanded on that work."

Scott Pittman, Permaculture Institute
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Nourishing Traditions

Nourishing Traditions

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Nourishing Broth:
An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World

NOURISHING BROTH will explore the science behind broth's unique combination of amino acids, minerals and cartilage compounds. Some of the benefits of such broth are: quick recovery from illness and surgery, the healing of pain and inflammation, increased energy from better digestion, lessening of allergies, recovery from Crohn's disease and a lessening of eating disorders because the fully balanced nutritional program lessens the cravings which make most diets fail. Diseases that bone broth can help heal are: Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis, Infectious Disease, digestive disorders, even Cancer, and it can help our skin and bones stay young."

Nourishing Broth

This is invaluable knowledge and those who refuse to consider it do so at their own health risk.
- Scott Pittman

Milk kefir grains

Real eggs from backyard chickens

Real Milk Finder

Truth is like digging for potatoes.

You got to get in the dirt and get your hands dirty.

I make butter. What's your superpower?

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Non-GMO corn with REAL butter

Did you know that vitamin D3 in butter is 100X more effective than synthetic vitamin D2? (source)

People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups — such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets and nightshade vegetables — but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive."
- Weston A. Price Foundation

Homesteading skills will be important as climate change affects the planet and our lives.

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Homestead Kitchen Skills

It is important to have kitchen skills to insure you are getting the nutritional value of the food. 

Foods often need to be properly prepared, such as fermenting, soaking, sprouting or cooking to remove anti-nutrients and release the nutrition, such as phosphorous and other minerals to become bioavailable, by soaking seeds, for example.

The early nutritional pioneers' research into natural vitamins and deficiencies that lead to degeneration is critical in the hunt for answering some of our basic questions about health.
- Dave Bowers

Learn about nourishing fats

Cholesterol:  Friend or Foe?

Very important to have enough cholesterol for hormone production, production of bile salts, healing and repair, protection against cancer.  For men under 60, no additional risk for heart disease with cholesterol levels up to 300 mg/dl.  For women at any age, and for men over 60, higher cholesterol levels are associated with longevity; no need for these groups to reduce cholesterol levels even if very high."

Source: Differences between Weston A. Price and Paleo diets

My Permaculture Kitchen
​Zone Zero = Your Gut Health
How do we stay healthy?

Healthy food comes from healthy soil, clean water and sunlight.

Nourish the gut with fermented foods, probiotics, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, collagen, fats & oils

Zone Zero = Your gut and biodigester

My Principles, Strategies, Techniques

Principles

Strength
Immunity
Vitality
Prosperity
Freedom
Happiness
Feel good
Look good

Strategies

• Cover nutritional bases
• Get the Super Activators working for you
• Core Vitamins, minerals, enzymes
• Focus on Gut Health
• Culturing & Fermentation
• Pro-biotics, pre-biotics
• Healthy fats, carbs, protein
• Avoid toxic foods
• Eat many nutrient dense foods
• Reverse deficiencies
• Both plant and animal foods
• Boost immune system

• Study, read, learn about health pioneers
• (like Weston Price, Francis Pottenger, Melvin Page, Royal Lee)
• Learn how to cook for yourself
• Nourish your growing children, family, elderly
• Make your own fresh ground flour
• Grow some of your own food
• Build community support system
• Connect to local food producers​
• Make friends with like-minded people
• Help others learn

Techniques

• Take cod liver oil, high vitamin butter oil and include organ meats for the Raw live source fat soluble vitamins
• Bone broth, gelatin from local pasture raised especially chicken feet, knuckle bones, marrow bones, oxtail
• Pasture raised chicken eggs (avoid soy fed)
• Soups, gravy, sauces
• Make Kombucha, kefir
• Buy a yogurt maker
• Fermented vegetables and fruit
• Beet kvass
• Properly soaked and cooked beans, lentils
• Properly soaked nuts, seeds
• AVOID refined sugary foods, bleached white flour
• Buy a grain mill, make your own flour
• Make sourdough bread, sprouted grain pancakes

• Use natural sweeteners like molasses, maple syrup, fruit juices (sparingly)
• Get a food dehydrator
• Carrots,  celery, parsley for soups
• Sweet potatoes, butternut squash and pumpkin for beta-carotene rich foods
• Fresh salads.  Brassicas, leafy greens for potassium and other minerals, enzymes
• Onions, garlic, egg yolks for sulfur
• Herbs, spices like tumeric
• Plant gardens and fruit trees
• "Three sisters" - beans, corn, squash in the garden
• Make your own electrolyte beverages
• Get top seven minerals + trace minerals.
• Quality Sea salts
• Sea mineral drops

• Super-Foods like nutritional yeast, Shilajit, Wheatgrass juice, mushrooms, kelp, spirulina, chlorella
• AVOID modern processed vegetable oils
• Render your own tallows
• Suet, lard, duck and goose fat
• Butter, cream, olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil
• Eat fatty meats NOT lean meats
• Find quality heritage breed raw milk
• Use Real Milk Finder for your area
• Local full-fat raw milk
• Local pastured meats
• Wild caught seafood/fish
• Farmers Market
• Hold or join cooking events
• Read books like Nourishing Traditions
• Join a local Weston A. Price chapter

Children need Vitamin D and the cofactors too

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