So biological farming, in essence, is a total tribute to our amazing creation.  It is to put all the wheels in place so nature can do her work.  The minerals in the soil have to be restored to their natural balance, hence the soil life can flourish, and then be fed by the cover crops.  Generally, soil life in an open field is bacteria, which are important.  But we also need the fungi which are so important for the harmony of the soil.  So we need to add those back to the soil.   

That is, in fact, how nature works.  Nature covers the ground with plants.  Animals feed on those plants.  The plants die down and return to the soil giving a continous snack to life in the soil.  There is nothing more sound than nature's plan.  And biological farming is mimicking nature.

Gary Zimmer is a farmer in southern Wisconsin.  He has done biological farming for decades.  He is a model for all of us to follow.  He travels across the globe showing others how to farm.  On his thousand acre farm he has 200 dairy cows.  But he has a chronic problem.  He has too many cows.  You see, because his cattle eat the nutritionally dense food of his farm, they are healthy and live to be old, and yet still produce.  He has fifteen year old cows that are still milking.  He also raises chickens that rotationally graze on his farm.  In the time it should have taken to make a five pound chicken, he had nine pound ones.  But...they were eating nutritionally dense food.  Because his soil life is flourishing, he adds no nitrogen to his soil.  It is truly a sustainable farm.

So...as a country, we need to do some soul searching thinking and make some obvious changes.  If cattle, who eat nutritionally dense food are healthy, what would happen to humans??

• For example, the farm program and the health crisis could be thought of in a unified solution.  Do we really want to subsidize the high fructose corn syrup that is making our nation obese?  Do we have any idea how much that costs us in health care and quality of life.
• What if we subsidized our amazing farmers in other ways?  What other crops might bring more health than our steady diet of corn?  What if we rewarded farmers for nutritional density?  Or what other use of corn is there than the high fructose corn syrup?
• What if we, each as individuals,  took charge of our own health and ate right and exercised?  Michael Pollan's new book is an amazing little Bible.  It merely says we need to eat more whole foods and less processed ones.  We need to eat more fruits and vegetables.  We can change more at the grass roots level instead of waiting for changes from above.
• Our chickens are supposed to get oyster shells in their diet so they have the calcium to make the egg shells.  They don't get oyster shells and their shells are perfectly strong.  But, all winter long, they have been eating beets, cabbage and kale from our garden.  Since those crops are grown on land that has available calcium, they have enough calcium in their diet to make strong eggshells.  Likewise, this winter I went through a wellness screening.  My personal bone density was higher than the norming range on the chart.  Could it be the calcium in the food we eat from our land?  Sally Field is an amazing actress and incredible person.  She does ads for Boniva, which helps with bone loss.  It would be fun to see what would happen if she ate nutritionally dense food that had calcium in it.