During this especially health-focused time with the pandemic. We decided to interview one of our regenerative agriculture customers to see how their family manages to find good food.
Let’s just say his name is Jacob, and he is interested in helping individuals find valuable food options that improve health. A focus on a healthy mode of living for both the food item the person eating the food. His vast experience in health and his doctor’s recommendations have guided his process of eating from organic to regenerative farming.
Handy Farms requested both links and data regarding his food channels for health. He has spent a lot of time reaching out directly to farms that fulfill his food needs.
Here is the first of the food source info we spoke of and you requested:
This is the rice farm where we get our rice: https://www.kodafarms.com/
This is the online source I use suggested by the farm: https://wellspentmarket.com/product/koda-farms-kokuho-rose-brown-rice
Wellspent Market is currently out of stock of the 15-pound bags, but if you click to notify you they will email you when it is back in stock (maybe pending 2021 harvest?). They do have only 4 of the 5-pound bags in stock so I would suggest buying them now before they sell out. You can determine their stock by putting a large number in your online shopping cart and the website will automatically reduce your cart to the number available when you move to the next checkout step. We keep a good stock so we don’t run out (I currently have about 67 pounds). You are truly welcome to some of ours if they run out and you would like some. It may be the best medium grain brown rice in the world. The texture is closer to refined rice. I know that some of the restaurants that feature it are the finest of their type. This rice has a remarkable story that is on the Koda Farms website:
https://www.kodafarms.com/our-history/
https://www.kodafarms.com/heirloom-kokuho-rose/
https://www.kodafarms.com/purity/
I also watched a movie about their farm and it’s history
My latest research has been into sustainable canned fish. The best-tasting fish we have ever eaten out of a can is this salmon and tuna
https://americantuna.com/store/
Here is another wonderful company and we are enjoying trying their small fish (mackerel, anchovies, sardines). These fish, along with Salmon and Herring are considered the highest in Omega 3 oils (brain and heart-healthy) and the lowest in mercury. I have corresponded with their founder Bill Carvalho and found him to be very kind, thoughtful, and knowledgeable. – https://wildplanetfoods.com/
Our trusted family nutritional doctor likes this company, which he told us yesterday that he has ordered tuna from for years. https://www.tunatuna.com/ We have not yet tried it. All of these companies sell their fish for many times what we paid for Industrial fished Tuna at discount stores. However, what we have learned about the depletion of the oceans from industrial fishing has taught us the real cost. The people at the above 3 companies seem to genuinely care. One podcast with a noted ocean scientist said that if you are paying less than $20 per pound for seafood, you can be assured it is NOT sustainable. They say prices that are below that can only be obtained from unhealthy and/or damaging fisheries.
We find that with what we save by ordering the best staples unprocessed in bulk, we can afford the best fish and other healthy specialty items.
Dulse seaweed (the only unprocessed one you can eat raw) from https://seaveg.com/collections/dulse I have this dulse daily in miso soup and it is great for snacking on or fried as a BLT sandwich instead of the bacon.
This is where we get the delicious probiotic sauerkraut, Shoyu soy sauce (that we douse our rice/oat pilaf with), and farmhouse South River Brown Rice/Black soybean miso–all of which we eat daily. We make a delicious healing salad by mixing cooked beets with the small-batch handmade Celtic Sea Salt Sauerkraut. This salad is allowing me to start eating meat again. – https://shop.goldminenaturalfoods.com/
This is where we get most of the rest of our food from https://www.azurestandard.com/
They are higher quality than most healthy food stores and much lower prices. No GMO’s. They deliver for free to volunteer drop points around the country with their nationwide monthly semi-truck routes. You can also order anytime from them directly to your door by UPS (this is what we do.) If you order exactly 46 ½ pounds you pay only $28 UPS shipping, so we always optimize orders to this weight. Our doctor was told at a recent natural medicine conference that the national organic standard now allows for irradiated food, underlining for me the importance of direct relationships with growers. But Azure is a great place to start and they seem to do a good job of vetting their suppliers as well as growing on their own farm.
Here are protein percentages on some grains and pulses we have eaten. Of course there is much more to nutrition than this one macronutrient.
- 6% protein Koda Farms KR55 organic brown rice
- 10% protein Lotus Foods organic Black Forbidden Rice
- 11% protein Azure organic red quinoa
- 13% protein Azure organic rolled oats [heat treated Avena Sativa?]
- 14% protein Azure organic 100% Whole White Wheat Unifine Bread Flour
- 15% protein Azure organic Ultra-Unifine Unbleached Bread Flour
- 17% protein Azure organic Cassava flour
- 18% protein raw Avena Nuda “Gluten-Free Prairie”
- 20% protein Azure Organic Garbanzo beans
- 24% protein Azure Organic Pinto beans
- 26% protein Timeless Seed Organic Black Beluga Lentils
This is the remarkable salt we use – https://www.selinanaturally.com/celtic-sea-salt/light-grey-celtic
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