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Felicia Alongi is a visionary and was a novice gardener. However, after her quick success with applying permaculture methods, blended with the wisdom of the Hawaiian way, she turned her backyard into a thriving, sustainable edible garden. She shares her knowledge on how to create your own backyard garden using these methods.

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Jean-Michel Cousteau joined us for our 50th Show to share his wisdom and passion for the earth. Do we need to be concerned about the state of the Gulf and about radiation in our Pacific Ocean? Cousteau answers these questions and more. More importantly, Cousteau focuses on solutions for everyone in cleaning up our oceans. What can you and I do to quit using our ocean as a dumping ground? The answers may not be as complicated as you think. Listen to Cousteau’s passionate message on cleaning up our water planet. Can you or I make a difference–absolutely!

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We’ve been talking about nutrient density  and bio availability in the soil, but with far from ideal nutrient levels in our food, more than half of Americans take dietary supplements.  Much like foods, the nutrients in supplements may or may not be nourishing depending on how or out of what they are manufactured. We talk to John Willard about Willard Water, a supplement that increases the absorption of nutrients from foods and supplements. Later we talk to wellness coach, Jim Wilkin, who answers our question “do the vitamins and minerals in most multivitamins come from food?” Um, no. With so many supplements and multivitamins in health food stores now claiming to be whole food derived, can we expect that they are organic and sourced from non gmo ingredients? Listen and decide.

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In this series on growing your own food in harmony with nature, Evan Folds has been teaching us the immense importance of microbiological activity in our soils. In this segment, Evan walks us through the making and application of compost teas. These teas boost the viability of compost and can automatically take care of many pest or nutrient imbalance issues you are having in your garden. It’s very easy too! If you aren’t using compost tea, you are missing out on something great for your garden.

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Why are our honeybees vanishing in alarming numbers?  Food Integrity Now talked with co-directors, Maryam Henein and George Langworthy, about their recent film, Vanishing Of The Bees. This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. Henein and Langworthy discuss our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder.” Their movie unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery. Henein is passionate about this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message – but will we listen.

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SWAT type raids with guns aimed at unarmed families on small dairy farms? Confiscation of product and equipment with no proof of contamination, and no compensation for damage and loss? Is it because these dairy farms are just covers for drug operations or weapons stockpiling? Nope. They only produce raw milk. Uh-huh, a food that humanity has been consuming for hundreds of years before pasturization. Whoa now! better bring in the guns, this is dangerous! Or…could it be dangerous to one of the mythologies that industrialized large scale food production is built on? It’s the idea that food in it’s natural state is poisonous, and we must be protected from it. What if more people started drinking raw milk and experienced the health benefits? What, then, might happen to factory style dairy operations? Hmmmm.

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It’s prime growing season and we couldn’t wait to have Evan Folds of Progress Earth return to share more wisdom about how you can take charge of your health and grow your own food. So we setup a special time slot to have him back this week. The topic for this week’s show: Indoor Gardening! Let’s get some hydro going!

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Evan Folds is an encyclopedia of knowledge on biodynamic indoor and outdoor gardening techniques. He returns this week for the second part of our series to get into further detail how you can grow your own food no matter where you live.

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Food Integrity Now teams up with Evan Folds, founder of Progress Earth and writer for Maximum Yields and Urban Garden Magazine, to bring you a series on how you can grow your own food in harmony with nature no matter where you live!

GMOs are proliferating our food and chemicals are polluting our soil. Much of the food you buy in the store today is an empty shell devoid of nutrients. This lack of nutrient density provides a very short satiation of hunger and robs the body of it’s necessary nutrition. It is now more important than ever to know how to grow your own food. Designing your garden in alignment with nature increases yields and provides you and your family with a reliable source of nutrient dense food.

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Do you believe the assurances by the EPA that the radiation from Fukushima is too diluted to harm our health? After all, we can’t see it, smell it, taste it, or feel it. There’s probably nothing to worry about, right? But Leuren Moret, a geoscientist who has been working to educate about the consequences of nuclear technologies, knows better. Her experience working at a nuclear weapons laboratory, and her research on the health impacts of nuclear facilities, gives her a thorough understanding of the ramifications.

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