Back in October, there was a great conference put on by Maui Aloha Aina Association at the Kumalani Farms in Olinda on Maui. It was a wonderful two days with speakers from the mainland like Jerry Brunetti, Gary Zimmer, Bob Shaffer and Sherrill Sellman. We were presented with so much information our cup runneth over.
Frank Pulaski III with MauiToday.tv did the filming and just recently uploaded about an 8 minute summary of the event. He has placed it on Mauitoday.tv and I embedded the video here on my blog. It's located in the right side bar if anyone would care to watch it.
The relationships that exist between a living soil and the plants that grow in it, is crucial to animal health. Not everyone believes people should be omnivores, but for those that are, this link is indeed an important one.
It is really amazing how a lot of people just view soil as dirt. It's so much more! In fact soil should be alive. The soil is made up of minerals, organic matter and most importantly the living organisms that feed on the organic matter and break down the minerals, allowing the plants to take them in.
For animals of any kind to benefit from the nutrients contained in the plants, the plants need to take them up from the soil. It is really an amazing process. It's too bad we tend to disrupt it by trying to poison what we consider pests, thereby killing the good, rather than strengthening the plants by improving their conditions.
I'm no expert on all of this. It just seems that it is time we really became intimately aware of the earth and it's soil around us. It's great to look at changes in the foods we eat and how we produce them, but we may need to do even more and look beyond just organic and see what is truly sustainable.
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