FOOD

Healthy digestion and nutrient absorption is only possible from the simple act of chewing your food. If you’re one of the many people who chows down in a hurry, or you chew each bite a few times before washing down with your favorite beverage, you could be setting yourself up for indigestion, constipation and other digestive problems.

In the mid-1980s, Dervaes family set out to do the seemingly impossible: To create what they dubbed an urban homestead and live a self-sufficient,...