Simon Mills
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Dec
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I'm concerned about the world that they come from because, of course, increasingly we have to produce these industrially, which sometimes mean in monoculture, what it usually means in monoculture form.
So they're growing in rows and rows and they put weed killers down to get other plants out of the way.
And so they become less natural.
And we talked about the polyphenols.
You know, Pucca, the company I worked for, was all organic.
And we were able to show that a plant that grows organically, that doesn't have pesticides,
needs to fight his own battles more.
Because if you've got a pesticide, you don't need to worry about so much, you know, the pests and the attackers.
So a plant that's grown in wild organically without chemicals has more polyphenols because the polyphenols are part of the plant's defense
So the more you can buy or that's where foraging comes in.
You know, my colleague Devin is a forager and he can walk around Hedra and show you, you can make a whole meal out of plants that people just walk past because people used to do that.
So that's real wild eating, which must be one of the best ways of eating.
But the more close to nature you can get your plants growing,
the better.
We have to live with what we've got, and most plants are grown without that.
But they're still better than not having them at all.
I think
The world is, we all know, getting pretty scary out there, isn't it?
There is a truth, which is you and the people around you are actually the only things that matter day to day, aren't they?
Our closest, dearest, the ones that we have invested most time
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