Microsoft Word - H.E.M.P Healthy Eating Made Possible - Paul Benhaim - Completed.docx

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  Paul  

  Benhaim

As a fertiliser, consider sourcing local rock dust (pure
crushed rocks) and spreading over the top soil to increase the
mineral content available to the plants and trees.

'Found a family,

Plant a Forest,

Rule your mind,

And laugh with the gods.'

David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System

Kitchen/Herb

 Garden

The transition to permaculture. Almost a lost tradition, the kitchen
garden was in past times an indispensable plot of ground near the
kitchen that supplied fresh, varied and medicinal herbs to a meal.

Now we can find all kinds of fruit, vegetables, dried fruits
and salt at the local corner store. We flavour our food with salt, to
add more taste but the tiny amount of sodium we need is more
than provided for in fresh and living vegetables and salad. The
taste of fresh basil, dill and parsley far exceeds that of bland dried
herbs. After a few weeks of using fresh herbs instead of salt as a
flavour enhancer, your taste buds will wake up and you will
discover that plain 'ordinary' foods can taste so alive. It is similar to
the enhanced taste reformed smokers experience and I hope will
inspire you to grow some of the following herbs, if not in your
garden then maybe a pot on your window sill.

And don't forget the foods that grow in the wild. To choose
which foods you can eat in the countryside I recommend the guide