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I recently understood the importance of vegetables, and I just recently dropped like 50 pounds.
My daughter dropped weight so quick her mother took her to the doctor, thinking she was anorexic
The doctor wanted to make her a poster child for health and wanted to write a book on the subject.
So, one of the easiest ways to avoid GMO’s is talk to the farmers and say: “Is this GMO free?”
Most of the people growing avoid that stuff
So if you want, local stuff is the best stuff. You can talk to the people growing it.
At this point, I take my food-stamps, turn them into coins, and I just – 100%.
You tell them how much you want, for every $5 they give you $2 free.
I give ‘em 100% of my food stamps, turn ‘em into coins, and that’s what I’m eating for the month
This is what you want to be eating.
Our farm, which in is Plainfield Pike in Johnston, RI.
Pezza Farm, family owned since 1947. I’m actually fourth generation.
We’ve been working hard just trying to keep it.
We’re all natural, we’re GAP-certified, not certified organic.
We have free-range chickens that are raised on the property, and cows that we let roam from November to January.
We’re right down the road, so you’re saving money
so not only are they saving money, they know its fresh, they know where it’s coming from.
they spray with preservatives many times; it’s not fresh that day.
And that makes a big difference: the sugar starts to break down in vegetables as soon as its picked.
So when something is already several days old it’s already lost its flavor.
Why do I get it here? ‘Cause it’s more local.
I love vegetables!
What we do is, we try to run a sustainable farm.
And I have chickens, beef animals… I have cows, steers, I have pigs, I have geese.
We use, basically, the manure that they produce back into the garden.
So it’s like a circle…
Circle of life, where everything goes back in.
Whatever I have leftover in the garden I give back to the animals;
and then it comes back to me again in the form of fertilizer. That’s basically how we try to run the farm.
I don’t use any chemical fertilizers or anything like that.
A lot of people buy from us because they know that it’s really fresh.
I think we’re trying to do a good job but I think that we only reach a small percentage of the population,
because the way we process food is a lot more work than a factory farm,
and because of that our food is a little more expensive.
I think local food going to become more popular because I get so many phone-calls
from people that, for example, have tasted my meat products, and they tell me:
“Oh I haven’t tasted anything like that since I was a kid.”
It’s the way our grandparents raised animals, and took care of animals.
And basically I think they ate very, very well at the time because they cared about what they were doing.
And I don’t think there’s that care anymore.