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Liz James

Is Your Soil Healthy?

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I found this cutie in our garden today. She’s a salamander! It’s the first one I’ve found in the 27 years we’ve lived on our farm.
We’ve worked really hard to keep our farm as chemical free as possible, and finding little critters like her living in the soil makes me extremely content and happy. 🙌❤🦎
Salamanders have extremely absorbent skin, and are very sensitive to chemicals because of this trait. Pesticides, herbicides, really… any chemicals will kill or injured them. More than half the world’s salamander species are on the endangered species list.
I have no idea what species this little one is? Maybe one of you know? I’m just thankful that she’s here (ha ha! Maybe she’s actually a he🤔?) She’s our canary in the coalmine….. evidence that we are treating our farm with the love and respect it requires to be healthy from the ground up.
Here’s a little more info on salamanders:
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Dangerous Diagnosis

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Approximately 15-20% of adults in the United States currently takes a medication for a diagnosed mental health concern. Over 6 million children nationwide ages 0-17 are also on medication.
 
This is a very important podcast that I’d encourage everyone listen to.
In brief:
 
🧐A diagnosis means payment to the health professional by the insurance companies.
 
🧐A diagnosis is subjective (ie: there are no laboratory tests identifying a mental health disorder), and the DSM is an outdated methodology (chemical imbalances are not something trackable) used primarily for payment purposes.
 
🧐Memorable quote from the podcast:
Whitaker: But, of course, people were being encouraged to say your problems are due to this chemical imbalance as opposed to what’s going on in your life. That’s such a profound shift in self-understanding.
Horwitz: You’re not going to sell many drugs by saying your problem is your life experiences. It’s far more effective to say your problem is in the brain. It’s an imbalance, we can correct that imbalance, just take our product.
 
Worth the listen
 
xoxo~ liz
 
(PS: one thing I wish they had covered but did not….. many physiological imbalances will certainly cause mental illness type symptoms. These (incomplete list) CAN be found often through an adequate and thorough lab workup… ex: magnesium, ferritin, B12, D deficiencies, hormone imbalances, thyroid disorders etc. Become your own best advocate! )
 
 
 

Organic Greenwashing Loopholes

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“Organic” is tricky because there are so many loopholes to allow for greenwashing.
(Greenwashing is the smoke and mirrors wording that big corporations use to dupe well meaning buyers like you and I into buying products that aren’t truly organic or “green”. It’s maddening how many do this too.)
Here’s an example of one loophole that is being fought to be closed in the organic dairy industry. This is a victory, and those who fought can be proud of their win……. hopefully it will be enforced (that’s another battle entirely).
Ultimately, your best bet with organic (and raw….I am an enormous proponent of dairy in its raw and organic state. Even organic has huge flaws) dairy is to KNOW YOUR FARMER. Shop local friends. That’s the only way you’ll ever know how clean your food really is.
 
xoxo~ liz
 
 

Weston A. Price Conference

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Tennessee area peeps (and those who are willing to travel 🚗✈️🚂), the Weston A Price conference will be in Knoxville October 21-23rd this year. Here’s the deets!
I wish I could go but I’ve got a yoga retreat I’ve already committed to on the same week in Florida.

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