I use King Arthur flours. I enjoy this website. I am not clear, however, after reading various articles provided on this site about sustainable vs regenerative agriculture vs organic agriculture, how anything but organic farming practices which and avoid glyphosates can actually rebuild soil that contains and sustains earthworms. I wonder if regenerative agriculture is a way to stealthily, gradually, address changing entrenched practices and mindsets that are resistant to change.

I feel better the more organic products I use. I've had health issues that have healed with organic approaches. I used other non-mainstream approaches along with organic foods to reclaim my health and well-being. All are expensive and worth it. If a person can afford it.

I do applaud all efforts to move a profit-driven economy and civilization toward deeper understanding of what has happened to soil over the past decades--and to the understanding of why it's important to recognize what's going on or ISN'T going on. There is no living soil left in the farming communities I have grown up in. Living soil smells rich and is black and deep and has earthworms, all of which smell alive. Dry brown chemical soil smells dusty and dead. There's no organic heart to it. I doubt most younger people have had the advantage of smelling and seeing that kind of soil. Plus, the onward march of destruction of any wetlands surrounding communities where I live is further testament to blind, mind-dead land management practices that have no inkling of what a healthy ecosystem looks like, smells like and provides to the earth and her occupants.

Yes, there is some movement toward acknowledging damage has been done and the need for restoration. I'm for that. 100%.

But I'm also concerned that a green bag and certain words that make it sound like the problem is being managed can trick a somnolent populace into further complacency. They think, well, the right flour and an electric car and all is fixed that I have to concern myself with. End of their involvement. All the while, their health and the health of every living being on this suffering planet remains at risk.

Our health is our wealth. Not corporate bottom line profits. I care. I think you care. Please consider what I have said as you go forward. Keep it in your hearts. Take it to your conversations at the tables where you plan policy and procedure and practice. Thank you.

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