Promote Healthy Food from Healthy Soil, We are What We Eat

This inspires others to care about what they eat, where their food comes from, and how it was grown. It also encourages farmers to build their living soil as healthy as possible.

When the things we put into our bodies are healthy, our bodies are able to utilize the nutrients with very little energy. This leaves the rest of the energy in our food to be utilized for our activities of the day. We feel more alive, more alert, don’t easily get tired, and can handle stress. The opposite is true when our bodies have to utilize huge amounts of energy to digest our food, deal with and remove chemicals, hormones, pesticides, herbicides, and break down the unnatural ingredients of most commercial foods.

Health starts in the land- our soil, water and air. When these are full of life, then we will be full of life when we partake of them. Life begets Life. If our soil, water, and air are sterile because all the life in it has been killed, then as we partake, the life in our bodies diminishes; we start to become susceptible to nature’s way of breaking down the things that are weak and decaying.

This Core Value is also a metaphor for many aspects of our lives. It speaks to all of the things we “consume” – the things that surround us. It encourages us to consider all of the inputs we experience every day – relationships and atmospheres, music, shows, and even behavior we exhibit or that is exhibited toward us. If we try to ensure that all of what we consume is inspiring to us, then we can expect our social, spiritual and physical selves to be healthier.

The principle “what you sow, so shall you reap” is the heart of this Azure Core Value. Sow in healthy soil and you will reap healthy food; eat healthy food and your body will be healthy; carefully tend to healthy relationships, and build a strong and healthy community. It is a basic principle, and one that is most forgotten yet needed in our world today. Let us revive this Core Value in our Azure family’s life, and let’s be living examples to our community and beyond!