Homestead Kitchen
One of the best nutritional guides I have found
is Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions
Scott Pittman, director Permaculture Institute
Scott Pittman, Director Permaculture Institute
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"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." |
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A must-have book for the homesteader
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"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.”
Scott Pittman, Director, Permaculture Institute (check out the website at www.permaculture.org for upcoming courses) 
I highly encourage everyone to read the information in Nourishing Traditions, especially the sections on Fats, Carbs, Protein, lactofermentation and cultured dairy.
Nutrient dense foods provide real vitamins
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Did you know that vitamin D from butter is 100X more effective than synthetic vitamin D? (source)
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Vegetarianism and soy are popular today among many permaculture students.
However, vegetarianism and soy foods are not the ideal permaculture diet.
Mollison's and Holmgren's handbook is quite specific that humans are omnivores and this is the most ecological.
Soy is high in phytoestrogens and one must take care to eliminate the anti-nutrients through proper fermentation. We discourage consumption of soy, unless it's traditionally fermented for long periods.
It is true, however, that the industrial food system can be quite detrimental to the environment and health.
This is where permaculture based food growing, pasture raised livestock and organic local vegetables in healthy soil are the ideal.
The homesteader can apply these techniques in the urban and rural areas for better self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Learn the Basics.
Homesteading skills will be important as climate change affects the planet and our lives.
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This is invaluable knowledge and those who refuse to consider it do so at their own health risk.
- Scott Pittman
Permaculture based diet
Zone Zero Health Strategy ©
by Dave Bowers
How do we stay healthy?
By covering your nutritional bases with nutrient dense food.
Healthy food comes from healthy soil, clean water and sunlight
Zone Zero = Your gut biodigester
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Gut Health
1) Cultured foods
2) Gelatin broths
3) Healthy fats
4) Food supplements
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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.
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 Gut Issues?
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You can use yogurt, kefir and kombucha to marinade your pasture raised meats or to make a fizzy beverage or ferment some coconut milk. These provide pro-biotics for the gut biome.
Collagen broths are a major key to gut health as well, so we learn about finding good bones to make stews and soups. The importance of the nourishing fats is often overlooked and shunned in our modern way of thinking, but it leads to a form of starvation and then degeneration. Pastured butter and organ meats are ideally incorporated because they contain high amounts of critical natural vitamins known as the "fat soluble activators", without which we don't absorb minerals like calcium into bones and teeth. Learn to make your own rendered fats from tallow. Supplements might include cod liver oil (Blue Ice recommended) for the fat soluble vitamins, sea mineral drops for magnesium and trace minerals, acerola for real natural vitamin C. I use Green Pasture daily. Combine with plenty of vegetables and fruits, according to your needs. I love brussel sprouts, kale, fresh greens, carrots, and beets. Based on nutritional guide and cookbook Nourishing Traditions and the discoveries of the nutritional pioneers like Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS, Dr. Royal Lee, and Dr. Francis Pottenger and other early nutritional researchers of similar vein. Their early 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 
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