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Best Picks for Low Pesticide Foods
More and more evidence shows that pesticides can disrupt our hormonal balance and even suppress our immunity and cause neurological damage. In past articles I have noted that to reduce your body’s toxic burden from pesticides, one of the most important steps you can take is to eat organic foods as often as possible.
But for many people, the higher price tag on many of these foods can be cost prohibitive. If you can’t afford to buy “all organic,” here are some pointers to help you prioritize which foods to spend a little more on and which foods will be the lesser of evils if you can’t buy the organic version.
Back to the Land: One Man’s Story
On hearing Barbra Kingsolver promote her new book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, I thought, “been there done that.” She and her family moved to a farm and vowed that for one year they would eat only food they grew themselves or that was raised locally. My wife, also Barbara, and I moved to our farm in Maine 35 years ago and have been living close to the land ever since.
I too, wrote a book about our experience of raising the majority of our food — which I titled Gardening for Independence.
We were part of the “back to the land” movement of the 1970s. I don’t know that any of us in this so-called movement knew we were part of any movement. Some say they were influenced by Scott and Helen Nearing — early green living pioneers. We weren’t. For us, it is just the way things worked out.
