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Why are we doing this?
The answer to that is one that may surprise you.
For the past 3 years we’ve been partnered in a project called the Real Food Campaign (RFC), launched to identity nutrient variation in the food supply, explore the causes of that variation and then provide the insight or tools for people to grow and choose food that is good.
We all experienced a real eye-opener when the first report was released in 2019 with data from samples of soil, carrots and spinach. The variation in nutrients was not only detectable, but massive. Minerals, antioxidants and polyphenols varied from hundreds to thousands of percent.
Most carrots have very little nutritional value :(
Here’s the jaw-dropper…
Variation in antioxidants in carrots was a whopping 9,000%!! That means you’d have to eat 90 carrots to equal just that “good one”, high in antioxidants. I don’t know about you, but we found this staggering.
SUPER CARROT!
After all, why do we eat food?
For nutrition and enjoyment…and the more nutrient dense a food is, the more flavorful it is. (Nutrition correlates with compounds known as secondary metabolites that communicate flavor and aroma.)
Even more alarming, the RFC lab found that most of the carrots sampled from around the US from small and large farms, garden plots and grocery stores with varying certifications and practices - including certified organic, were in the “low” end for nutrients.
This sparked an idea. We wanted to learn, so we could teach others to grow nutrient dense food. This is a way for each of us to take back control of our health and our food supply, to not blindly trust labels that are missing key information due to reductionist practice and understanding.
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Thus, the Next 7 Garden Project was born.
The first Next 7 Garden in Boulder, Colorado in 2020
At Next 7, we spent the 2020 growing season practicing biological methods in our garden, including remineralizing the soil and adding inoculants to introduce valuable microbes that together revitalize life. This practice, in its truest form, is termed “biological agriculture”.
Growing food in this way tells us that the more we plug into Nature and biological systems to grow our food, the more nutritious our food is. This may sound simple - and in many ways it is - but the elegance of Nature also dictates complexity.
Biological agriculture is putting the principles of Nature into practice that not only cycle carbon (like ‘regenerative’ agriculture), but also improve soil biology over time and produce healthier and more nutritious plants for food. Now is our opportunity to be students of nature, plants and soil. There is much we can learn!
If you’re intrigued, click here start your application. Just takes 5 minutes.
This could be a life-changing experience for you, your family and your community.
We hope you’ll join us!
What you'll receive from us...
Next 7 Garden Kit:
Seed Inoculant • Minerals: Spring blend (by Bionutrient Food Association) • Liquid feed
FREE registration to the Soil & Nutrition Conference
Every Thursday in 2021 until the end of September, learn from experts in biological agriculture and nutrition. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions and have the recordings for future use.
Access to our Next7 garden online webinars series!
We want to help you and your community grow healthy, nutritious food
* We will choose our Next 7 Garden recipients on April 1st, 2021. You will be notified by email.