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Letters

THE GOODNESS IN clean the blood! So when we receive An important study done in the
RAW SPRING MILK this wonderful spring milk, we might Swiss Alps (Collomb et al. 2001; 2002a)
As an herbalist and lover of weeds, FRQVLGHU LWV QDWXUDO PHGLFLQDO EHQH¿W showed that the more diversity of plants,
I have great respect for plants. Nature and thank our farmers for providing us herbs and grasses available for the
provides mankind with uncountable with the most incredible goodness on animals, the higher the nutrition in the
wild plants for our enjoyment and heal- the face of this earth. milk products. . . and yes, Switzerland
ing. Many of these uncultivated edibles Animals seem to be much wiser has onion grass!
grow right in our own back yards and are than humans, and we can only learn Judith Mudrak, Chapter Leader
highly medicinal in various strengths from them. So the next time one consid- Southampton, New Jersey
and properties. ers returning milk to the farmer because
The farmer has these same plants in we don’t like the “interesting” spring Judith leads a tour of WAPF members
KLV ¿HOGV ZKHUH KLV DQLPDOV HQMR\ WKRVH ÀDYRU ZH PLJKW FRQVLGHU WKH JRRGQHVV to study traditional dairy products and
highly nutritious grasses and weeds in- nature wants to provide for us. other foods in Switzerland each sum-
stinctively. Among these weeds is one Through many travels in Switzer- mer.
called onion grass, which is in the allium land, I’ve spoken with numerous elderly
family. One may wonder why it is even individuals about raw milk. Most of STATIC CONTRACTION
WKHUH 6RPH SHRSOH FDQ GHWHFW LWV ÀDYRU them refer to the war time, when there TRAINING
in the milk if the cow gets into a patch were great shortages of food. They’ve I feel compelled to tell my story
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of it. Have we ever thought about why all told me that every liter of milk was after reading about SuperSlow Weight
such a “nasty” wild edible Training in Dr. Cowan’s
might be there, available for article in the Fall, 2008
animals to get a hold of and issue of Wise Tradi-
eat, which “ruins” the taste tions. In 2000 I had a
of the milk? motorcycle injury with
Consider the fact that pelvic fractures, which
the constituents of allium laid me up for about a
are natural antibiotics. Per- year. I must have devel-
haps the cow needs to eat oped a “disuse osteope-
this in the spring in order nia” which was not re-
to clean her gut after a long vealed until June, 2006
winter without fresh grass. when I sustained a hip
Can nature really make fracture when skiing
mistakes? on ice, and which was
Every spring, I eagerly followed eventually by
wait for the new spring a DexaScan revealing
weeds to return and I’m the osteopenia. This got
WKDQNIXO ZKHQ WKH\ ¿QDOO\ me on the road to tradi-
emerge from the ground. It seems to treasured and used anytime of the year tional foods and increasing knowledge
me that if allium can clean the guts of including spring. Nothing was ever about minerals and vitamin D, amongst
an animal, it can also clean our own thrown out, except the low fat milk, other things.
through the animal’s milk. I add bushels which was used to fatten and feed the Eventually I resumed my gentle
of it to our wild spring salad mix, to help animals. weight training, getting into SuperSlow
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