July 26 (Sunday) 3pm Brookfield Garden Club offers soil management program (complements of the Spencer New Leader) — The Brookfield Garden Club will host a program by Dan Kittredge of North Brookfield on how farmers can work to achieve better nutrition through better soil management, which in turn can produce better tasting, more nutrient-rich foods. The program will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 26 in the basement of Brookfield Congregational Church. The program is free and open to the public. Kittredge is the founder of Real Food Campaign, whose mission is to make nutrient-dense foods available to everyone. The campaign plans to eventually set standards, provide education and use protocols to promote this. It would involve farmers from all parts of the world who have developed methods for nutrient-dense foods, as well as scientists, doctors, and nutritionists. The idea behind the movement began with Dr. Arden Anderson (Real Medicine, Real Health), who believes all forms of life are interconnected and that something done to one aspect of life affects another. According to Anderson, "Microorganisms in the soil determine how a crop is going to grow and that determines how we're going to grow with the nutrition from that crop." Because of inadequate nutritional practices by farmers in the past, today's food is significantly deficient in nutrient density. "Eating all the right foods today still leaves us short of needed nutrition," says Anderson. Through the Real Food Campaign, Kittredge hopes to help gardeners learn about how balancing biological minerals available in the soil improves the soil life and, in turn, the health of the soil, leading to the improved quality of nutrients in crops. His Web site is www.realfoodcampaign.org.