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Nutrition and food quality begin with the condition of soil and the way that food is grown.
Organic pioneers J.I. and Robert Rodale knew long ago that healthy food comes from healthy soil. Today, the Rodale Institute helps people around the world to produce and find whole food with superior nutritional quality that contributes to their health.
“Working with partners, we want to document the ways that improving health in the soil improves health in our crops and food,” says Paul Hepperly, the Institute’s research director.
- “Raw” milk proponent and dairyman Mark McAfee sheds light on pasteurization, the benefits of consuming unadulterated food, and the war on bacteria.
- What started out as a way to get fresh, whole food from the farm to the people most in need has grown into a full-scale educational experience focusing on all aspects of our relationship with what and how the Oakland CA community eats.
- Esteemed writer Michael Pollan, author of new best-seller "In Defense of Food" tells how overproduction of commodity crops has led to overconsumption and obesity, and he challenges the wisdom of “organic high-fructose corn syrup” and the machinations that would create such products.
