Whole foods require more planning and organization than processed convenience foods, but the pay-off is worth it. The benefits include: better nutrition, a feeling of empowerment and reconnection as you learn to engage with your food closer to its source, and the satisfaction in knowing you’re taking better care of the Earth just by how you eat.
In frost free areas we’re blessed to be able to grow tropical food plants in the summer and better known European style veggies in the winter. This time of year, spring, is especially abundant with its overlap between the cool weather and hot weather plants. This post shares pics and links to info for a small selection of food plants from our garden.
A “RealFood garden” is a garden that’s easy to maintain and meets real, basic, every-day needs for food and medicine. Plants in such a garden are connected to other plants and to the gardener’s kitchen and healthcare needs in mutually beneficial ways.
Regenerative gardening and farming has an intention to both feed people AND to leave the surrounding web of life stronger, richer, more complex and more resilient, rather than less so.
Industrialized food is a commodity, a hollow copy of what it was before it was disconnected from the web of life that gifts it to us – just as a tiger in a zoo is a hollow copy of the real, wild thing.
In any truly regenerative style of agriculture, the harvest is a side-effect of ecosystem regeneration and vice versa – ecosystem regeneration is a side-effect of the efforts to produce a harvest.
How I got from “I don’t think I could grow brassicas,” to “Ooh look – a cauliflower!”
At the supermarket you can get everything you need at one location and it’s cheaper than anywhere else. But when it seems too good to be true, there’s usually a catch. In this article we’ll explore the complex web of connections and consequences attached to the cheap convenience on the supermarket shelves.
In traditional cultures, organ meats were considered to be the animals’ most nutritious, most precious, gift to humanity. In modern society, we’re repelled by the idea of eating organ meats. What happened?
What we eat illuminates the relationship—or lack of it—between us and our natural world. It also directly influences the way our living planet is used.