Some spinach can loose 90% of it’s nutritional value within 24 hours of picking. The term paddock to plate as far as I can see is just some chefs with their heads up their own bums trying to convince people their food is fresh – “more seasoning you bloody idiot, where is the salt you fool”, that’s because the produce has already lost it’s flavour.  Now I’m not a scientist I’m just a farmer these days who likes to read what scientists whom study stuff about farming have found. Following is my quick summation, main sources listed below.  Many articles with actual scientific data are from the US where methods of getting food from California to the supermarkets in New York then into the fridges of consumers has been studied.  After harvesting  plants continue to ‘live’ or  ‘breathe’ and that process is called respiration.  This process is the breakdown of materials such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins that leads to a loss of...

When I lived in the city I went riding early morning just as first light was illuminating the streets, we rode an hour before a morning coffee then off to work in my air-conditioned company car to arrive in the underground car park and catch the life up to me air-conditioned office. When work was finished for the day if i has a little time left before dinner with the family I'd call into the gym and destress with a short weights session or just a run on the treadmill while watching the news on the TV screens. Living in the country and farming, it's all different. There is no formal exercise sessions, there is just work. Mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow is a great job, like paddling a canoe at first, the carrying weights across a balance beam to strengthen your core. In the city even though I exercised to "be like everyone else successful" I still sat on my corporate butt all day talking about things that seemed important at the time. Now in the country I'm at th...