Food Roots August 20: where does your food come from?

“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?”

~ Jessica Prentice ~

Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!

Our food system is destroying the soil, wasting valuable resources and making us sick. The only thing that is sustainable and the only thing that can reverse the many complications of a broken food system is to get back to our food roots. We must plant the seeds ourselves. We must shake the hand of the farmer who grows our food. We must take back our food system.

Where Does My Food Come From?

This week I canned 12 quarts of dill pickles and 7 pints of honey sweetened cross cut pickle slices. I also harvested and dried sage and catnip from our herb garden and added a few more handfuls of green beans to our garden harvest tally. Our CSA is becoming more and more plentiful and after picking it up last night I will be blanching and freezing corn, green beans and broccoli before the week is out. Lastly we have spotted our first tomato starting to blush pink. That sea of green may finally start to have a bit of color!So I ask you again…

Where does your food come from?

To participate in Food Roots…

1. create a blog post pertaining to local, seasonal foods or what you are doing to find your food’s roots.
2. in your post add a link back here so that others can benefit from everyone’s information and encouragement.
3. add your name and url to mr. linky below.

Feel free to use the Food Roots banner above, if you wish. If you do not have a blog, please share your thoughts in the comments.

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Thank you for participating!