Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people?
Healthy soil produces healthy plants, and eating plants is good for you. These are statements we often hear in our green food forest bubble, and ones we strongly believe in, but how do you study the relationship between nutrition and health (to put it a bit more broadly)? And who wants to study this? Because that, of course, is another issue. Cauliflower only has a multinational corporation backing it if that corporation can patent it.
Fortunately, we've found speakers who are going to make a serious effort to share the available research—including the results—with you.
How does the plant get nutrients from the soil?
The first speaker was Martijn Aalbrecht. For years, he has been studying the relationship between plant-available substances in the soil and how they can help promote plant health, as well as how to subsequently demonstrate that health in plants.
What does research tell us about the relationship between (plant-based) diets and health?
Next, Leonie Barelds and Joost Lommen from the Louis Bolk Institute took the floor and presented an overview of the available research on the relationship between food consumption and health, as well as the relationship between pesticide use and health.
