A New Favorite

Happy gloomy Monday morning!! At least the rain is helping our kale and broccoli. Speaking of growing food, I've mentioned before about my desire to remineralize our soil to grow nutrient dense food. The other day on Instagram, a photo of the current issue of Acres showed up on the feed of Jenny Prince. Jenny is a big advocate of growing nutrient dense food.

I had to pick up some layer feed yesterday and I saw it on the magazine rack. I'm pretty sure it called my name! So, it came home with me. 

I love me some Mother Earth News and Grit, don't get me wrong. But, boy does this table of contents look yummy! And this! 

For those of you who don't know, before I became known mainly as Mommy, I was a chemist. I worked with a scanning electron microscope in both undergraduate and graduate school. I have a MS in Chemistry. I much prefer being known as Mommy, but I do miss that intellectual stimulation that science gave me. Sooo....This is PERFECT! I love the references to journal articles.

And this article was great! Since we are thinking about getting a cow in the future, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I still think getting goats first is the right step. And a local Nigerian Dwarf breeder has two does available now. Anyone want to contribute to the goat fund? Hopefully in the spring, unless something happens before!

What's your favorite magazine?

Soil Remineralization

I've been doing a lot of reading lately (something I don't get to do very often!). I ran across a book on our statewide online lending library called The Intelligent Gardener. It is an interesting read and one that has completely caught my attention.

The idea behind the book is that our food we grow is lacking in nutrients because our soil lacks the proper mineral balance. When the minerals are balanced, plants are strong and healthy and pests are few. I'm still working my way through the book (it is information heavy!), but it appeals to my analytical side. And he doesn't bore me with his talk about chemistry.

And it just so happens a few weeks ago, I ran across a free cookbook. As I read through the beginning of the book, it turns out that the author is herself a huge proponent of remineralizing soil and growing the most nutrient dense food she can. I can't wait for fresh produce this summer to try her recipes out. She has a pretty cool website and offers a guide to growing nutrient dense foods.

I'm going to keep reading and researching and finding the best way to implement this into our garden. It all makes so much sense to me and it allows me to dust the cobwebs off my chemistry degree :-)