The final book that really spiked with my interest and stayed with me was Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.” In this book, we followed Mr. Pollan as he explained the food that we eat in three parts, two of which we read. In Part 1 of the book I realized that our government has set us up to buy processed food in order to feed into the large companies that continue to control this nation’s economy. Consequently, as it does not care about our citizen individual health, it is my perception that if more people knew this, and if they understood that by buying more organic products, it would cause the demand to go up and the prices down, then they would. However, with the current way the system is created,
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Consequently, of this organic farm, one of the more interesting portions of discussion were the animals on the farm. Specifically, he spoke about the rotation of the animals on the farm when he discussed the chickens, who were released onto the land after the cows. When released, they were given approximately 24 hours to eat any grass that was left but also to fertilize the land as well seeing that their feces has high levels of nitrogen to rebalance the soil. However, they were not left here any time pass that, simply because the high levels of nitrogen will offset the soil if left there too long. Additionally, he spoke about the Eggmobile for the other chickens which I found very interesting. For me, this was a touch back to home because in some ways it reminded me of Home Place Pastures. I had the privilege of visiting this sustainable organic pig farm over the summer when I created and facilitated a statewide conference called the McLean Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, in which one day was solely dedicated to sustainability. On our visit we learned about exactly what made this a sustainable pig farm unlike others, in which a lot of the practices were similar to those that Pollan discusses in the book. Additionally, while we were there, we were
Consequently, of this organic farm, one of the more interesting portions of discussion were the animals on the farm. Specifically, he spoke about the rotation of the animals on the farm when he discussed the chickens, who were released onto the land after the cows. When released, they were given approximately 24 hours to eat any grass that was left but also to fertilize the land as well seeing that their feces has high levels of nitrogen to rebalance the soil. However, they were not left here any time pass that, simply because the high levels of nitrogen will offset the soil if left there too long. Additionally, he spoke about the Eggmobile for the other chickens which I found very interesting. For me, this was a touch back to home because in some ways it reminded me of Home Place Pastures. I had the privilege of visiting this sustainable organic pig farm over the summer when I created and facilitated a statewide conference called the McLean Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, in which one day was solely dedicated to sustainability. On our visit we learned about exactly what made this a sustainable pig farm unlike others, in which a lot of the practices were similar to those that Pollan discusses in the book. Additionally, while we were there, we were