“Where man is not, nature is barren” – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell One of the first things that amazed me about the Amazon—and just always continues to enthrall—is the sheer abundance of super delicious and highly nutritious foods here. In fact, in the rainforest metropolis of Iquitos, Peru where I currently live, superfoods including the highest natural sources of vitamins C, E and A in the world are sold on every
EarthRx: The Amazon is not a wilderness, it’s an advanced permaculture food forest
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