Food Roots, September 17: 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?
I spent last Sunday canning and dehydrating tomatoes. After eleven hours of blissful work we now have 1 gallon of crunchy, sweet dried tomatoes and 14 quarts of diced tomatoes. I am hoping to do more canning of tomatoes, but we’ll see.
Our perennial herb garden is producing lots of catnip, sage, thyme and rosemary which I need to pick and dry this week. We’ve also been getting some greens from the garden as well as lots and lots more tomatoes – of all different colors. If this keeps up I may be canning tomatoes from our own garden instead of the farmer’s market.
It is a very busy time and this week I will add dehydrating hot and bell peppers to the to-do list, but it is only a short season. Come January I can have a more clean and organized home, right? That’s what I keep telling myself.
So I ask you again…
Where does your food come from?
To participate in Food Roots…
- create a blog post pertaining to local, seasonal foods or what you are doing to find your food’s roots.
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I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Thank you for participating!
Still super busy trying to keep up with the garden, even though it has been terribly dry. We just picked some more pole beans, Tiger Eye shell beans, soybeans and raspberries. The boys and I are looking forward to a hs field trip in two weeks to a local orchard. Their apples are good, but their cider is excellent. Now that we’ve got a chest freezer we can stock up.