Animal Vegetable Miracle
July 29, 2008
Newest research obsession: community supported agriculture and the perks of eating only locally grown produce and growing your own food.
I have been reading the book Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and fantasizing about having the means to buy a CSA share for one of the local family farms in Utah and beginning to do stuff like grind my own wheat, raise chickens, and make my own cheese or pickles.
It may just be a passing obsession, but there are a lot of good reasons to re-evaluate the way we eat in contemporary America. We have become so completely removed from the process behind one of our most basic needs: to eat.
One day I have dreams of having a nice little vegetable patch and buying most of my food from local farmer’s markets
Since this is mainly a show-and-tell I pledge to post some sort of writing on Wednesday when I’d usually post show-and-tell. Goodnight! I’m off to read another chapter in that book…
Keeping your own garden used to be a big teaching of the church in the Kimbal days. As the church has become an international entity, however, we have moved away from this because it’s not within a lot of people’s means. If you check out old Sunday School manuals there are whole lessons on plowing and growing stuff.