What are Indigenous Foods?
Indigenous foods are nature’s potent medicines with many healing properties that cannot be found in imported and processed foods.These foods abound in the environment, a testimony of God’s wisdom and generosity. Nature, with its own rhythm based on the country’s climate and seasons, creates food that is appropriate for the human body. With its perfect design, it provides the suitable fuel that enhances our bodies’ tremendous capacity to nut ture, heal and regenerate. During summer for example, nature produces succulent vegetables and fruits to provide extra water needed during that season. During rainy season, nature produces vegetables and fruits that are sour (high in Vitamin C to strengthen the immune system against cough and colds) or high in fat (to keep us warm). Leafy vegetables abound the whole year round. These traditional crops: • grow abundantly without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides so its cultivation is not harmful to people’s health and the environment; • are r
