GROW YOUR OWN
Yes, even those windowsill herbs are an act of resilience. Learning where your food comes from and how to sustain yourself is a powerful act of persistence. We’ve learned so much from our farmer features, namely, that you don’t have to have a special background to grow your own food. Anyone can learn how to commune with nature, we’re not separate from it.
As summer rolls into an autumnal quiet, I’m starting a few indoor growing projects. I’m hopeful and understand this is the best way to learn, even if it doesn’t go perfectly.
I come back to this quote from our friends at @smarterbynature often. “To me that component is so important because the process of growing food and the value of food is undermined in our society. People are used to getting things fast. When you purchase something at the supermarket you have no idea how long it took to make it or how it got there. When people start learning about growing food, they start appreciating the time and work that it takes, so that creates a higher value in their minds, and then they begin to treat themselves with that same value when they eat that food, and they take pride in it.”
When we value the things we eat, we better understand the value of ourselves. Let’s take time in these colder months to explore how these systems work. We’ve got a lot to learn!
What are your cold weather growing projects? #closedloopcooking