Organic or Wild-Crafted (Beyond Organic)

A question often posed is – What is the difference between organic and wild-craft grown foods? What is revealing is that the question clearly delineates the difference from what used to be called “natural” from cultivated crops. What was the natural growth of food like before man began agricultural production of planted seeds? The answer is found in the word lush. Most natural habitats that enjoy plentiful rainfall, sunlight and minerally rich soils prosper in great abundance, particularly when unfettered by environmental constraints either natural or manmade, and when in proximity to the equator (Hawaii , South American rainforest, Asia).

The fact is organic farming practices complying with USDA regulations are allowed to use botanical and some synthetic pesticides and herbicides. The regulated applications must cease a minimum three (3) months before harvest, this period allows the approved substance to mitigate itself. Most consumers are alarmed to hear this because, like “natural,” they assume there is no spraying whatsoever.

Wild-craft is just as the name implies…crops and produce that grow without the application of substances to them; they grow wild. The Goji berry is most fortunate, at least the varieties that grow wild in the Tibetan and Mongolian corridor, especially found in Tibet . The continental shelf occupied by Tibet (now China ) is minerally rich and climatically congenial for the proliferation of the Goji berries that have and still nourish these exotic cultures, providing medicine, food and “happy” nourishment. In fact, the Goji berry has been a main-stay in Tibetan medical practice for centuries. Both, Tibetan and Chinese practitioners have understood the profound health generating abilities of herbs and tinctures in general, which are the basis of many drugs and supplement preparations today, and these same practitioners used the Goji berry, its extracts and concentrate forms to treat an array of ailments.

Wild-craft anything is superior to cultivated “organic” produce for two reasons. The first reason is that the wild-craft crops are never sprayed, so their leaves, fruit and root systems remain free of substances that may bio-accumulate and prove harmful to some consumers. Second, because the soils of wild-craft foods are mixed with a variety of wild plants, the soils will generally be more nutriently alive containing the manifold minerals that plants need for optimum potency. The wild-craft Tibetan Goji berry is very well endowed in this respect. Tibet sits on a glacial shelf that provides an abundance of crystallized minerals funding the potency of the variety of berries, herbs and crops native its habitat.