First Thanksgiving Joining Pilgrims and Native Americans Offers Secrets into Organic Farming

 Thanksgiving is just over a week away and with the holiday right around the corner many families are preparing for the traditional gathering of family and friends and of course the hearty feast that reminds us of the first traditional meal shared between the Pilgrims and Native Americans nearly 400 years ago.

The plight of the Pilgrims and the struggles to survive those first years in Plymouth are well documented as bitter winters and disease took their toll on the small community but the role of the Native Americans in helping their new neighbors survive often goes unnoticed. Had the Native Americans not shown the Pilgrims how to adapt to their new environment it is likely that first Thanksgiving never would have occurred.

In his new Thanksgiving eBook “Squanto’s Secret Garden” Bill Heid, president of Solutions from Science, examines the role the Native Americans played in ensuring the Pilgrims learned how to properly fertilize the soil to establish a healthy and consistent food source. That vital lesson, along with other farming techniques, became the saving grace for the settlers of the New World and in “Squanto’s Secret Garden” Heid reveals how those methods can be implemented today to produce healthier and tastier foods.

The “secret” revealed by Heid is in how the Native Americans fertilized the poor soil to produce continuous harvests. That “secret” involved the practice of burying a dead fish in each mound of corn to fertilize the crop. This organic gardening approach provided the soil with vital nutrients like calcium, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur, all of which are integral components in growing healthy fruits and vegetables.

As effective as fish fertilization is for creating an organic garden the use of chemical-based fertilizers has become common practice today and as a result the food that we are eating not only lacks taste but is actually less healthy.

While Heid’s eBook “Squanto’s Secret Garden,” available for free download at www.FirstThanksgivingGarden, outlines the role Native Americans played in the ultimate success of the early settlers he also reintroduces the techniques utilized by the Native Americans so that organic gardeners can enjoy the same nutritious foods produced by those who truly knew how to get the most out of the land.

Heid offers a number of helpful tips in creating an organic garden, planting options, proper layouts for planting and growing as well as a list of English and Native American recipes using the fruits and vegetables enjoyed at the first Thanksgiving.

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

Solutions From Science is a small Illinois company helping backyard gardeners grow healthier and better tasting fruits and vegetables with alternative, marine based fertilizers.