Life in the New Zealand Countryside

• Saturday, February 10, 2007 - Sweet life

Well life has been going along in its slow sweet way. Last week we got milk from the farm after a while of not getting it. This time Ive vowed to myself never to get store milk again. Its just toxic!  We have also discovered another farm closer than our other one, that will also sell us thier raw milk. Both farms let thier cows graze on grass and dont give them any nasty grains or worse flour! as some commercial farms do. Isnt that just terrible? feeding a cow flour!! No wonder so many people are allergic to commercial dairy, as the nastiness begins with what the cows eat, and believe me God did not make them to eat flour. I feel so much better that Im supporting the proper care of cows, and not ones that are kept in tight pens, never to see the light of day.  On another note, Ive just mastered making a soaked bread, as per WAP and Nourishing Traditions. Ive been implementing a tradtional diet for more than 8 months now and I can say that we are now 100% WAP. We are refined sugar free, white flour free, processed products free... and I cook completely from scratch, nothing from a box. Well we never did eat from boxes, but I can fully realize the importance of eating a proper diet more than ever now, after reading so much about what is real food. The funny thing is, my parents have eaten WAP most of thier life, without really knowing, and we were raised on home grown veggies, homemade bread, raw milk and homemade yogurt. I want to offer my son, and children to come, the same thing. I think its such a gift, the gift of good health, wise eating habits, and proper knowledge about real food. Spending time in the garden, showing them how to put seeds in, how to water the little seedlings, how to pick the veggeis when theyre ripe, how to cook them, how to milk a cow, how to dry your washing in the sunshine that God gave us, there is nothing that compares to this. Its the most basic of things, but today people have forgotten this life sustaining talent. Children of the modern age think that milk comes from a packet, that veggies come from the freezer in the supermarket. Educating my children about the realities and wonderful self sufficient ways of life is one of my hearts desires.

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