The Mediterranean Association for Soil Health (MedASH) is a non-profit organisation based in Crete , Greece . MedASH was founded in order to assist farmers, professionals, and consumers to realize that soil health is as important for the survival of humans as the quality of air and water. It's aim is to help farmers produce healthy crops on healthy soils and to inform the public about the idea that healthy food can be produced in healthy soil without the use of synthetic chemicals.
MedASH works to create healthy agricultural soils to preserve the cultural heritage of indigenous people and invigorate healthful communities. In doing so, we seek to inform and provide a vehicle with which citizens can express their concerns about food, its production methods and its importance for their health, the health of their communities and the environment.
We are firmly convinced that food communities , founded on sentiment, fellowship and the rejection of egoism, have a strategic importance in designing a new society based on fair trade.
Food communities are sources of ancient and modern wisdom. They are an important and strategic factor in human nutrition, in the delicate balance between nature and culture that underpins our very existence. Food communities bind together the destinies of women and men pledged to defending their own traditions, cultures and crops.
These food communities, created from the binding of individuals in common goals of f ood production, preservation and cooking, are language, identity, and a primary need of all humankind. MedASH sees the necessity of spreading and sharing the wisdom of these food communities to the proper development of a new fair trade society, where nature and culture travel arm in arm, assisting each other reciprocally.
