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"Frequent your local farmers' market or consider joining your local community-supported agriculture projects. Learn more at www.localharvest .org/csa. These are the principles I used when I designed the six-week eating plan in The UltraMind Solution Companion Guide. Go to www.ultramind.com/ guide to download the free guide. • Grass-fed means that the animals you eat spend their lives roaming and eating grass in a pasture, as they evolved doing. Grass-fed animals are not closed up in a stockyard, which means they have much less need for antibiotics." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Participate in community-supported agriculture (CSA), and support local farms. Local farms in urban areas help stabilize the local environment and reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as save on transportation costs. It's also critical to our national security to have local food sources. Essentially, you buy shares in a farm and you own the food and you come pick it up or it is delivered to you, depending on the structure of your CSA. You can go out and work on the farm, too, and pick food one day on a sort of farmer's holiday." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms—Farm Supported Communities by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden (Bio-dynamic Farming and Gardening Association, 1998) This "textbook" for community-supported agriculture, first published in 1990 and then revised in 1997, provides a theoretical overview, real-world examples, and countless resources for anyone interested in reconnecting with the farmer and the land, and knowing exactly where their food is coming from." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Such inspiring efforts include farmers' markets, community-supported agriculture (buying shares in a local farm), community gardens, and independent stores and co-ops, to name just a few. One of my favorite programs is called "farm-to-school," through which local farmers supply school lunch programs with fresh, healthful produce. There are hundreds of such alternative movements throughout the country, and their numbers are growing. Working at the community, state, and national levels, they are refusing to accept the current corporate-controlled food system." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"He suggests finding projects sponsored by the Arbor Society, the Sierra Club, and local community-supported agriculture farms . . . and tells patients to get involved, make a difference, and feel better! 11 Adaptogenic Herbs in Combination There is an empirical maxim that says if one superior herb is good, more than one is better. Throughout the history of herbal medicine, the use of multiherb formulas rather than single herbs (simples) has been the more common practice." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"A food community, on the other hand, might be a community of farmers and city dwellers who form a buying group (CSA, community-supported agriculture) or a group of associated gastronomes who want to exchange knowledge about food. These communities (food and producing) are more or less closely interlinked right up to the highest, planetary level: the "community of destiny." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

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