Cows Save the Planet
After moving to Texas and buying our first house, I stumbled onto the idea of growing my own food in a rather roundabout way: I won a prize while shopping at Natural Grocers. The prize was a reusable bag and a book titled Cows Can Save the Planet by Judith D. Schwartz. To be honest, I looked at the title, assumed it was very politically biased, and stuffed it onto a bookshelf for a while to collect dust.
I don’t know why I picked it back up, but after the first chapter, I was intrigued. This book was not a screamy, fear-mongering rant about too much carbon dioxide. It was a well-researched, fascinating account of the author discovering regenerative soil techniques and challenging the entire climate change paradigm in the process. Schwartz explained quite logically how much our store-bought foods are lacking in nutrition, how damaging Big Agricultural practices are, how long Round-Up and other pesticides live in the dirt (think decades, not months), and how the safest & healthiest option is to grow your own food.
At this point I was already quite crunchy-minded, opting for the healthiest choices I could find in the kinds of products I use in my home, on my skin, and in my food. After struggling with chronically less-than-ideal health, I was always on the hunt for ways to improve my immune system. Could it be that I, like many Americans, was eating a lot of nutritionally deficient calories?
Knowing how much I had enjoyed my little indoor herb garden in Alaska, it wasn’t a far leap to decide to jump whole hog into an outdoor garden now that I owned a house with a yard. I wanted to be able to stop buying leafy greens from the store and see how much I could produce at home. Since then, my desire to plant and grow has multiplied by the month! Cows Can Save the Planet gets a lot of the credit for inspiring me on my kitchen garden adventure…as well as turning me into a Crazy Plant Lady in general! Thank you, Ms. Schwartz, for turning me onto such a delightful, addictive, healthy pastime.
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