In this 1st of three calls I interview Dan Kittredge. Since we are both passionate about nutrient dense foods this should be a lively and enlightening call.
Dan Kittredge is the Director the Real Food Campaign (RFC), a project of Remineralize the Earth. The RFC is designed to raise awareness about and increase consumer demand for Nutrient Dense crops, the coming market standard.
Dan is an organic farmer of 20+ years who has served as Executive Director of Remineralize the Earth and worked with farmers across this country, Central America, Russia and India. He has marketed through CSA’s, farmers markets, restaurants, and health food stores. He currently has a contract with Whole Foods supplying Nutrient Dense Organic Heirloom tomatoes.
Dan will be speaking at the Call to Arms Seminar on the first day at 7:00pm on the subject of: Prepare Now for the Coming Market Standard: Nutrient Density. Dan will also be offered some time to give his perspective on the 4:30 talk about Organics, Compost, and the Great Debate that I will be sharing. Perhaps Dan and I will end that talk in a Great Debate of our own. 
So what’s the great debate? Here it is: If achieving nutrient density is our number one priority should farmers be certified organic?
If you have some specific questions you would like Dan and I to address on this call please post them in the comments below. I will try to cover as many as possible.
Thanks,
Jon
Call To Arms – More Information
You can access the recording of Nutrient Dense Foods by going to www.aglabs.com/downloads.html
A transcript of this call is also available.
Tags: Call To Arms, Food Quality, High Brix Gardens, Nutrient Dense Foods, Real Food Campaign
October 20th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Dan,
How dense are Indian fruits and vegetables? How do you compare them to the produce in America?
Many Thanks.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Submitted by Nataraj but accidentally deleted by me because I thought it was a duplicate. Jon
Hi Dan and Jon,
As I see more and more farmers become interested in remineralization, I observe them just adding rock dusts to the soil without regard for weather what they are adding is what is actually needed. My experience in working with Jon has shown that too much, or the wrong ratios of minerals may not be what we need to produce nutrient dense foods.
I would like to hear Dan’s perspective on this issue. Also, the remineralize.org website has great exposure to the world. Do you see a value in educating people not to simply dump rock dusts into the soil and think that this will solve the problem of nutrient deficient crops?
Thanks,
Nataraj
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
I wanted to thank you for tonight’s call. My husband and I lived out of the country for nearly 30 years and upon returning, one of the things that stood out to us the most was the bland and tasteless food. (We really miss those mouth-watering mangos, papayas and other tropical fruits!) It took us awhile to understand that the nutrient content of fruits and vegetables had dropped significantly during those years we were gone and that we needed to work hard to have a healthy diet here in the US.
I’m encouraged to see this growing movement toward making nutrient dense foods available in the marketplace and creating a new standard of food quality. We’re definitely behind it. We’re willing to pay premium prices for quality food that tastes good and provides the nutrition we need to stay healthy.