Growing Solutions for Healthy Soil
Did Native Americans Name Good Plants after Good People? My friend Andrea once told me that early Americans, like the Navajo and the Apache, named plants with beneficial properties after people they liked. It was sort of a way to compliment the good people in their lives. She added that snakes, flies, and mosquitoes might be … Read more
Sustainable Food Systems Drive Sustainable Economies In the industrialized world, corporate owned food systems have created low priced, readily available, empty calories with long shelf lives. This biologically inactive foodstuff (emphasis on stuff) has come at the expense of family farms, rural communities, environmental health, basic human nutrition, and civil liberties. As a result, the cost of … Read more
The Announcements of Nobel Prizes represent current events that are changing our the world around us. This year’s announcement of an award to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discovery of the genes and mechanisms relevant to autophagy (a recycling system within the cells) offers an excellent introduction to important cellular organelles most of us learn little about … Read more
Every Horse Lover Knows You Can Bring a Horse to Water, but You Can’t Make Him Drink. Horses will drink when they are thirsty, and students will learn when they have need of knowledge. Public Education is Built on the False Premise that We Can Make Unwilling Students Learn. In 1992, I left public education … Read more
Hello, and welcome, to Endofite.com! The first questions you might have when you enter this site include, “What is this place? Is it pronounced “end-o-fight?” or “end-o- fit?” Is this a business? Or a blog? Who’s writing all this stuff? What is food security? What do you mean by “Integrated Health?” What will … Read more
A recent (2014) study published by Monika Krüger and colleagues in the Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology revealed the presence of glyphosate residues in grazing and foraging animals and in people, highlighting key problems associated with a herbicide that targets an entire kingdom of primary producers. Glyphosate residues were found in hares and rabbits, cattle, … Read more