Today the Corporate Food Supply has become masters of marketing misrepresentation. I’m finding myself constantly second-guessing if I truly am eating clean food. Our food has been so degraded, for so long, there are many situations where I wouldn’t know how the pure product tastes. What is even worse, there are more situations where I forgot what true food tastes like.
I am one of the last generations that grew up when our food supply was delivered by 1,000’s of small local, family farms. I am part of the last generation that grew up before the birth of GMOs, corporate farming, glyphosates, natural flavors, hormone growth factors, chemical additives, and aspartame…to name a few. I am part of the last generation who didn’t experience the monopolization of our food supply into the corporate global food titans staunchly focused on corporate profits.Â
The pandemic hit and my immune system became the most important thing. It became important because if you’re following any of my social media, you are aware that I’m one of the ones experiencing the repercussions of vaccine injury.Â
I’m going to share with you some of the amazing products that I’ve found and what I learned when I started using these products.
The two products the Burroughs Family Farms does really well are olive oil and almonds. I had thought I had been upgrading my olive oil purchases. I was in the grocery stores purchasing more expensive brands, stored in dark jars, and coming from Italy.Â
That’s not enough.
Recently, I found that real olive oil has a robust, grassy, peppery taste. I had no idea. That sent me on a search for something real and local to the U.S. I wanted to find a small family farmer because they care for the land, environment, plants, and livestock like the farmers I knew when I grew up. Those farmers cared and loved their farms and the agriculture they brought to market.
I found a number of olive oil producers in the United States. Burroughs Family Farm caught my attention because they use non-GMO olives (all olives are non-GMO, but that was because of a huge global fight against corporate deception and deceit); the farm is all organic and avoids pesticides. If you’re curious about how much GMO crops have increased the use of pesticides in the United States, click here to check out this episode. This would be the closest I can get to what true olive oil used to be.
The farm also grows almonds that have not been steamed or treated. Usually, I’m not too fond of almonds. I think the steaming process makes almonds “warmer” on the digestion. In Chinese Nutritional therapy, almonds warm you naturally. Yet, corporate processing methods like steaming or gassing with highly toxic substances can change how foods respond in the body. These methods used by most commercial, non-organic almond farming are too warm for my digestion, causing symptoms of heartburn and inflammation. The almonds from this farm are processed without steaming or gassing.Â
Sunrise Flour Mill – Organic Heritage Wheat Flour, Pasta & Baking Mix
This was one of my first real experiences purchasing from small, independent food suppliers. Sunrise Flour Mill produces heritage wheat. Currently, wheat is not a GMO product because grasses have been too difficult to engineer genetically. Yet, they have been cross-pollinated with other grasses, which creates a hybrid. Heritage or heirloom seeds are seeds before we started creating hybrids or GMO’s. This is the original seed.
Working this flour was amazing. It is so much more lively than any flour I’ve used before. Click here to check out my episode where I talk with the owner of Sunrise Flour Mill. The really amazing thing happened when I started baking with it. The house was filled with the sweat, aromatic essence of baked goods that awoke memories from my childhood. I don’t even remember when I stopped smelling that fragrance.Â
The depth of flavor was amazing. Again, here was something that didn’t upset my stomach like most breads, besides sourdough, do.
Princeton Popcorn Company Mushroom Popcorn Kernels
Do you like popcorn? I use to. I remember when Orville popcorn was amazing. Over the years, I can’t tell the difference between Orville popcorn and all the other popcorn.Â
I crave that crunchy taste. Yet, microwave popcorns have a crunch with no taste and a thick taste of oil and salts. I don’t feel satisfied even after eating a whole, popped bag.
This popcorn is great! Pop a quarter cup of seeds, and you can add your own toppings to ensure the quality of your snack.
Palmetto Farms – Stone Ground Grits. All Natural, Old Fashioned.
Part of clean eating is going back to our roots. Many of our families grew up with grits as a staple. I didn’t realize there was a difference between stone ground grits and instant grits. Well, we are becoming more aware that anything “instant” isn’t real. That is the same with grits. I love these. They are sweeter and heartier than instant grits and go with everything.
Buy Nebraska has an organic corn meal that has been my favorite. The product is a blend of organic corn growers in Nebraska. There are pros and cons to delivering a co-op product. When I look at the pros, a co-op allows Buy Nebraska to pick the best from a much larger group of fields. Doing it that way ensures they can deliver a consistent, high-quality product.Â
The cons are that if this was a large Corporate Farm, they would blend lower-quality grains just to make minimum requirements for each grade to maximize profits. Or, they might get even more creative and use the product from organically grown fields to represent all fields in the area making it appear their packaged goods to be non-GMO instead of “might contain non-GMO products.” An example would be Non-GMO project, a non-profit who corporate giants pay to be able to stamp their packaged foods as non-GMO.
This is another exciting farm. They are located in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is up in my neck of the woods in the Midwest. Besides their products, what I really liked about this farm is it is really important to them to mentor other farmers. How cool is that? Â
The other really neat thing they have is heirloom grains I’ve never seen or used before. Not sure what heirloom grains are? Click here to check out this episode on heirloom seeds. They have two different corn meals. I mix them together. Their yellow is a fine grind, and the red dent is medium fine.Â
They call the Red dent a proprietary seed, which makes me think they are growing like farmers did when I was growing up. When I grew up, farmers saved some of the seed from the prior year harvest to plant in the next season. As Monsanto’s seeds cross-contaminated nearby fields with GMO seeds, Monsanto brought lawsuits against farmers for using their seeds. Like today, justice is usually about what you can afford, and Monsanto could afford a lot of justice. Monsanto won the cases and was able to force farmers to purchase very expensive GMO seeds.Â
In addition to these corn meals, Doudlah Farms has heirloom beans that I’ve never seen or tried before. They also have multiple organic certifications besides the USDA certification.Â
Are you starting to grow your own garden and searching for heirloom plants? Here it is.
Azure Standard of Healthy & Abundant Living
Azure Standard offers a unique option for shopping for healthy products. It is a family-owned and independent food delivery company providing affordable organic, natural, and non-GMO groceries and health, household, and garden products. They offer regular and bulk-sized orders. They offer delivery through the mail (UPS or USPS) or through their Drop Points – these are places where you pick your order up. Delivery is free.
Their farm was one of the first farms to get their organic certification back in 1982 grown grains for Bob’s Red Mill.
I first ran into their produce at Chuck’s Fresh Markets. It was the only mixed greens that looked fresh and stayed fresh in the refrigerator. No wilting, no melting, no staying as hard as a rock and drying out. Just real fresh greens that tasted like fresh greens. You have to live near Ridgefield, WA/Battleground, WA/ or Vancouver, WA. You can order online and go to their stand in one of the three locations and pick it up. You can just swing by and pick up greens.
So, great option for greens and vegetables!
Looking for a resource to find great family farms near you? Localharvest.org has over 40,000 farms listed across the nation. I go here to find farms near me.
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