Thanksgiving is right around the corner and with the holiday comes the story of how the Pilgrims shared that first meal with Native Americans. What is often left out of that story is how close the Pilgrims had come to failing in their New World experiment and the integral role that the Native Americans played in showing their new neighbors how to properly care for the land and produce healthy crops.
In Bill Heid’s newest eBook “Squanto’s Secret Garden,” currently available free-of-charge at www.FirstThanksgivingGarden.com, the role the Native Americans played in teaching the Pilgrims soil cultivation, fertilization and harvesting is examined and more specifically the technique used by the Native Americans to grow fruits and vegetables.
Heid, president of “Solutions from Science,” uncovers the Native American method of utilizing fish fertilizer to reap large yields and he has since parlayed that method into a new organic product called “ProtoGrow" that serves to produce the same success enjoyed by the Native Americans and passed down to the Pilgrims.
What Heid reveals in “Squanto’s Secret Garden” is that Pilgrims were probably enjoying healthier and better tasting food than the produce we now put on our table. Heid contends that the chemical-based fertilizers commonly used to produce crops today actually compromise the nutrients that the food is supposed to contain. By returning to a more organic approach to farming, “ProtoGrow” provides soil with vital nutrients like calcium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur, thus ensuring the fruits and vegetables grown are consistently grown.
While Heid spends the first half of “Squanto’s Secret Garden” detailing the Pilgrims early struggles with poor soil and crop production and eventual success thanks to the intervention of Native Americans, he spends the second half of the book outlining how to grow an organic garden today using the same planting techniques and marine-based fertilizer that led to the first Thanksgiving enjoyed by the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
To access your free copy of Bill Heid’s eBook “Squanto’s Secret Garden” and learn more about organic gardening techniques for healthier and better tasting fruits and vegetables go to: www.FirstThanksgivingGarden.com
