"You are what you eat"
What we eat and what nurtures us has two distinct sides, the material and the energetics. We do a good job of materializing everything, almost to the point of digression. We reduce things all the way down to isolated compounds and disregard the rest, failing to realize that there is a complex system that likely works together. I have come to understand that the things we consume and surround ourselves with are energetic imprints in addition to the material, that send signals to our system that are equally important to say iron, calcium etc.
With this thought it's hard to look at our food systems the same. While I actually very much admire the productivity and efficiency of commercial agriculture, you have to wonder what the energetic imprint of the material produced through that system communicates to our bodies.
With cows for instance, what signals does a cow raised commercially send to your system? For the most part, meat you buy at the market comes from animals who were likely harvested less then a year old, kept in confined spaces, fed grain, weaned too early, fed hay produced with chemical fertilizers, given preemptive vaccines and antibiotics, sometimes given steroids and chemical salt.
To me this is not what I want to imprint my being with, even if chemically it is deemed healthy. What I want to imprint my being with is an animal that has had a good life, who has grown enough to have all their hormones, to have had babies, to have accumulated the nutrients from the food that they eat. This all is what led me to raising our own cattle in such a specific way. While it goes against the commercial model, we can't imagine it any other way.
Here is a collection of the forage that is growing in our "vega" pasture situated at 7,600 ft elevation. It is the material and energetics that build strong healthy animals that go towards making us strong and healthy.
Find meat from our landrace criollo cattle for pick up at our weekly Saturday Bake Sales until sold out. Generally available summer and winter. Or learn more about our cattle here.
