Real Food On The Farm A Workshop Presenting Nutritionally Vital Foods That Promote Health and Healing

摘要

The farm in May is bustling with the vigor of spring; warm soil, vegetable seedlings, fruit and flower buds abound. At S&S Homestead on Lopez Island, Washington, we thought it would be the perfect time to host a workshop. We wanted to celebrate all ofthe food available on the farm in May, and to identify basic principles of eating well, such as eating seasonally, locally and traditionally. We think of this as eating "real food", a process that allows deeper connections to be made between quality offood and quality of life. This workshop emerged from the fact that, increasingly, it is difficult to overlook the poor state of human health in the United States. But while a health crisis seems apparent, nutritional advice has become so varied and sporadic that one can hardly make heads or tales of it. Our workshop argued that small-scale food production and the right methods of food preparation and preservation offer alternatives to conventional agriculture and conventional medicine, neither of whichadequately promotes health in this country.