The Bionutrient Food Association is a newly minted non-profit organization whose strategic objective is to increase quality in the food supply. We are based in and do most of our work currently in the Northeast US. We are an outgrowth of the Real Food Campaign, a project of Remineralize the Earth.

Strategic Plan

The work of the organization is based on three objectives. Our first objective is to educate growers on the principles and practices necessary to produce high quality crops. Crops with high levels of Bionutrients.

Our second objective is to educate consumers about the relative disparities in the nutritional value of food currently available in the food supply, and to explain the deep physiological reasons why high quality food is important.

Our third objective is to survey current levels of nutrition in crops and to devise and provide a simple hand held tool that consumers can use to determine crop quality before purchase.

Grower Education

We understand that working symbiotically with natural biological systems is critical for growers to produce healthy crops that yield well, are pest and disease resistant and have high levels of the minerals and compounds that humans need to be healthy. Much is known about how to do this well, and our signature Bionutrient Rich Crop Production courses are a popular opportunity for growers to understand better what are the limiting factors in their production systems and address them. We endeavor to integrate practices and principles from Organic, Conventional, Permaculture, Biodynamic and other production models in an effort to provide best practices to empower growers. Over 700 growers have used these courses to improve their practices in the past three years. If you would like to host a course, please contact us.

Along with these courses, we provide links to written material, consultants, and suppliers of many of the critical materials growers may need to amend their soils.

Consumer Education

We understand that it is in the interest of consumers to have access to the highest quality food available, and that many are not aware of the significant quality disparities in the food supply. Therefore, we provide educational events primarily in the form of evening lectures that explain the underlying issue, and provide consumers with the tools necessary to access the best quality food available. If you would like to set up a public educational event please contact us. Along with public events we are documenting the research that shows nutrient declines in the food supply and building a database of growers who are actively working to maximize the quality of the crops they produce.

Research

The data on nutrient decline in the food supply is quite conclusive, as well as is the information on the health giving attributes of high quality foods. Our objective is to comprehensively survey the crops currently in the food supply and provide anyone the ability to make purchasing decisions based on relative quality of one crop in relation to another. We intend to mass produce a handheld Bionutrient Meter that will give buyers this ability, and use this capacity to incentivize a shift towards quality in the food supply. The simplest tool with which to carry this out is a refractometer which measures brix and a comprehensive kit that can be used to accomplish this is what participant members receive upon joining.

Structure

Our organization is designed to be a decentralized membership based voluntary association, and we encourage those committed to achieving our objectives to self organize and establish local chapters. We have membership opportunities for consumers, growers, and other associated businesses like amendment distributors, consultants, retailers, labs, and restaurants. Different membership groups each vote for representatives on the organizational board of directors, and through this model provide self regulating guidance as we raise awareness about crop quality and create a reality in the food supply where quality is incentivized.

Welcome to our organization,
The BFA Team