How nutritious is our food?

Click here for an interesting article from the NY Times about how we've moved away from a broad nutritious food supply. Makes me feel lucky that we have space with great soil for gardening, and that nurseries, big box garden centers and online sellers have been steadily increasing the variety of seeds and seedlings offered.

Side note: I am a dandelion lover. Not that I eat them myself, but we have guinea pigs at home, and dandelions (untreated by any pesticide or herbicide) are their favorite treat. Plus, dandelions are usually the earliest flowers to bloom, which brings pollinators to the area, and dandelions have absurdly long roots. These roots grab nutrients from deep soil, so if you let them grow big, then compost them, you can add nutrients back to the top of the soil.