Sustainable Farming for Health

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

Balancing the world is not as easy as it seems.

The family farm is a romantic notion – one grounded in the roots of the past. When writing an essay yesterday, I was pondering how we get back to sustainable lands and farm. Such farms fed and populated the world until the twentieth century.

Organic farming is not the entire answer – as it only solves part of the equitation. A sustainable farm is so much more than an organic product, whether it be fruit, nuts, veg or even dairy. A sustainable farm incorporates the land, the soil, trees, plants, livestock, fish and fowl into the mix. Organic farming absolutely has its place but in the end is primarily focused on the end product, healthy food production.

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