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Thread #172985   Message #4214416
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
30-Dec-24 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Sounds good, Dorothy!

Transplanting was completed this afternoon, and like Dorothy, I'm headed to bed early. There are new plants in several spots around the yard (I tend to plant the multiple ones in at least two spots, in case one place is better than the other as far as long-term survival). The honeysuckle shrub, several rock rose, two sage (the edible or smudging type), and bulbs. It was a pleasure to work in the greenhouse and putter in different beds. Tomorrow will be clear but much cooler, but I can still get out and do some more digging (to put in some cold-weather crops).

I'm reading a slim volume by Michael Pollan that is the revised (expanded) edition of Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. Again I don't agree with every suggestion, but most are reasonable and difficult to argue with. Rule number 32 is "Eat like an omnivore."
Whether or not you eat any animal foods, it's a good idea to try to add some new species, and not just new foods, to your diet—that is, new kinds of plants, animals, and fungi. The dazzling diversity of food products on offer in the supermarket is deceptive, because so many of them are made from the same small handful of plant species, and most of those—the corn and soy and wheat&mdah;are seeds rather than leaves. The greater the diversity of species you eat, the more likely you are to cover all your nutritional bases.

That bit about the supermarket offerings is what jumped out at me. Aisle after aisle of things not good for us. Snack foods, soft drinks, breakfast cereals, processed frozen foods, the name just a few.

'night, all!