I have had to drop out of Enchanted Folk a wee bit because I grow my own food (or at least a whole lot of it). May is the month of planting.  

I'm sure my fellow Enchanted Folk members can sympathize especially since most of us here believe in healthy stewardship of the earth.

The other reason I do this is because: 

During my childhood I had severe asthma (i.e. bedridden). I ate lots of sugar & "quick" food, frozen, canned, packaged. Then in highschool I was living at a farm where we grew all of our own food, milked cows, raised our own meat & kept bees. My asthma went away. Then I moved into a city where I lived on a vegetarian diet (my asthma came back, but it wasn't as severe as it was in my childhood). I didn't understand why it came back. Then in recent years, I decided to go on an "organic foods only" diet, i.e. no food that was laced with pesticides. My asthma disappeared.

If you suffer from asthma, please give this a try. For my part, I am convinced that pesticides are a big contributor to asthma (as well as also being estrogenic & poisoning our environment, water supplies, fellow living creatures). Most doctors will still tell you that asthma is the result of pollutants in the air and an overactive immune system. Although they might contribute, in my case it was clearly factory farmed food that was making me sick.

Recommended book: "Fatal Harvest".

I hope you are all enjoying Spring & I hope to be on here again soon.

Okay, back to gardening!