Health Talk: Dr. Mary Ruth Swope

Greetings from the folks of Living Food Farm! We are continually working on preparing our garden and barley grass for the summer of 2005! It’s always an exciting time of the year for us when warmer weather welcomes Minnesota once again!

There’s one source of valuable information talking about the importance of barley grass that we want to share with you. It’s from a book called, “Green Leaves of Barley” by Dr. Mary Ruth Swope. We encourage you to find that book and read it! Or, you can just sit back and read the excerpts or important paragraphs from that book through our future Health Talks!

To begin this train of very important information, we would like to start by explaining why we picked Dr. Mary Ruth Swope’s book. Dr. Swope has practiced medicine for 15 years but through it all, she didn’t see her patients improve at all. Once the patients’ prescribed medicine is stopped, the illness returned immediately. Dr. Swope was greatly bothered by that so she began investigating further into the field of nutrition. She even researched back into the history of medicine, and found many interesting facts and explanations. Therefore, she stopped practicing medicine and began studying nutrition and traditional medicine such as herbs and the healing powers of specific plants. The dried juice of barley grass is what Dr. Swope has pinpointed as the food with real powers to heal the body within. She believes that if one wants to improve one’s health, one must become actively involved in understanding nutrition to promote better life-long health. Dr. Swope says, “Cells made strong through good nutrition will go a long way in giving us an immune system that will resist modern-day illnesses so prevalent in our society”.

Living Food Farm strongly believes that to have a high quality barley grass, the soil must be improved firsthand. Barley grass grown from 2 inches of soil in trays at home or low-nutrition soil at farms WILL NOT provide necessary nutrition that the barley grass needs to have BEFORE it can help the health of a person eating it. We have improved our soil for 26 years now with proof from soil tests, soft soil 3 feet deep, delicious taste of fruits and vegetables from our chemical-free soil. Our soil gets the essential minerals each year as “food” which enables it to grow high quality plants.

Before we say, “To be continued...,” we want to quote one doctor friend of Dr. Swope who said, “If we eat wrongly, no doctor can cure us – if we eat rightly, no doctor is needed.”

Think and discuss on what that quote means…

Yours in good health,

Robin Johnson
Living Food Farm