In the last twenty years, the agricultural sector has been at the center
of an epochal transformation, in a context where, while the worldpopulation continues to grow, it must deal with pressures on natural
resources and the environment. ---- Farmers have had the need to abandon
those lands that are no longer cultivable, making room for innovative
systems that consist of inert substrates where to plant seedlings. ----
At present, this choice would be the easiest way to achieve a
horticultural production where the farmer is able to continue to do his
job, while maintaining the role of the main economic player.
In the case of substrates, the farmer can give the plant everything it
needs, thus facilitating the production processes and therefore growth,
rooting and development of the fruit; at the same time, by abandoning
the natural process of rooting in the soil, it is possible to trigger
all those ecosystem dynamics that nature needs to grow its crops.
In continuity with the article published here in last October's edition,
this reflection also aims to be an invitation to critically analyze the
existing agricultural approach and to understand its real sustainability
and possible alternatives.
Since 2011, research has maintained a type of agricultural production
based on the inclusion of substrates, for example coconut and fiber,
which have a high purchase price and above all a need for disposal at
the end of the cycle that translates into onerous costs for the farmer
and an unsustainable effect on the environment. To date, the search for
available substrates for agricultural production has not stopped and has
come to touch one of the most precious goods on earth, namely water,
which combines with all the elements that make life possible on this
planet and which brings information and history.
At present, we need to make a reflection that prioritizes the protection
of aquifers and the unsustainability of converting water into special
waste. The same technique used for fiber or coconut panels is applied in
the management of plants that use water as a substrate, with the use of
all the synthetic substances that the plant needs to grow vigorously and
give its maximum productive potential.
These synthetic substances that are diluted in water, after an initial
period of effective results as a nutrient solution, become a residue
that cannot be disposed of naturally, consequently leading to the need
to remove the contaminated water to reintroduce pure water.
This is the crucial point where the obvious limits of this approach
become apparent. Although at first glance it might appear innovative,
hyper-productive and sustainable, it is instead reduced to a polluting
method, with little respect for the earth, man and the aquifer. It also
does not leave much room for the development of water-based production
done with a different ecosystemic approach.
I have been using water production for several years and my experience
allows me to say that what makes the difference is the relationship
between man and the ecosystem.
Aquaculture production allows me to select a species while maintaining
seed production and carefully selecting the plants that respond best to
the method. The water element can be treated with ecosystem substances
and does not need to be disposed of because it always remains in the
circuit, being redirected to a carp farming plant, which reopens its
natural function of nourishment for the plants. No waste.
All plants produced with the aquaculture method described above are
nickel-free, healthy and have a lighter and less fibrous consistency,
also proving to be clearly more digestible than vegetables produced with
conventional or synthetic methods. This approach to plants guarantees,
even in a soil-free system, respect for ecosystem processes, helping the
entire production to develop adaptive capacities even in a different
environment.
The presence of nickel in recent years has been the cause of
environmental pollution, for this reason many subjects who have eaten
food containing nickel have highlighted intolerances and skin reactions
such as rashes and important cracks and serious digestive difficulties.
From this observation was born for me the need to produce nickel-free
vegetables that have radically changed the lifestyle of many people,
bringing that physical and psychological well-being that should be the
guiding star of every conscious and free farmer.
"Why is a water-based approach without synthetic substances
synergistically more active and available over time"?
Because water, autonomously, is absolutely capable not only of managing
the process of creating micro and macro elements, necessary for the
production of horticultural plants, but also of knowing how to combine
the nutritional needs of each species inserted in a production platform.
This shows that the human being is not indispensable in the management
of production processes and that the sense of omnipotence that very
often accompanies it is completely out of place.
"Why should an approach to agricultural production developed in this way
be supported, encouraged and recognized as a method capable of providing
healthy and sustainable food, where sustainable means food made well,
clean and fair"?
Because what I have been carrying forward for several years with
determination, is not only a method that I consider sustainable but a
real taking care of food, people and their lives.
I have met several times people who have become ill due to food
contaminated for decades by hyper-nutrition. Realizing that replacing
their eating habits with a diet based on vegetables produced in this way
has benefited them, allows me to continue on this path with more
determination, confident that food can really return to being the
protagonist in people's lives, as nourishment for the body and mind.
It is known that the intestine is our second brain and that a nutrition
based on food produced with an ecosystemic approach promotes a more
balanced intestinal balance; all this in turn translates into more
positive mental dynamics, aimed at creating well-being rather than
fueling psycho-physical discomfort, poor brain activity and low energy.
This reflection therefore also wants to be an invitation to have a
direct relationship with those who cultivate the land, to be aware of
the vegetables you choose to eat and the approach that the producer has
chosen to use.
Food represents an important tool for acquiring greater self-knowledge,
the effects it has on our body and the actual benefits that this has on
our quality of life.
The real challenge is to take agriculture back into our hands by
supporting the farmer in a concrete way, first of all by guaranteeing
the purchase price of a product obtained as the conscious consumer asks
to do it.
Who is a conscious consumer? It is someone who is willing to pay the
right price for a product made with care and dedication, exactly the way
he wants it.
However, this statement has opened a debate on social justice and
accessibility to food produced according to the methods described above,
asserting that "good food is too expensive".
The question is: how much are you willing to pay for food that is
nourishment for the body and mind?
Based on the fact that more and more individuals believe in the
possibility of a different agricultural proposal, that is, clean,
sustainable and fair, society must encourage this path without making it
elitist, in order to be able to lower the prices of food that has been
produced respecting an ecosystem approach. To do this, it is necessary
to know the environment that surrounds us, to read the dynamics that
regulate the production processes and to spread the knowledge of a
purchase to those who I like to define as the true custodians.
The true custodians of the territory and of healthy and sustainable food
are the enthusiasts, the genuine dreamers, those who approach
agricultural methods without harming the land in any way.
Peppino Lissandrello
http://sicilialibertaria.it
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