A Little Yellow Tomato and Where Food Comes From
5 Comments Published by Seamus Ford October 4th, 2008 in Commentary, Diet/Nutrition/Eating, Peak Oil, Plastic Reduction.I started a garden for the first time in my adult life this past summer. I found it to be more fun and fullfilling than I ever expected. I was amazed at what I was able to grow in the space between my house and my neighbors. Here are a few thoughts about the experience.
A lot of us think about food. We are concerned about it’s quality and purity and the effect it will have on our bodies, but we do not give much thought to how it gets to us. We want it and for the most part it is there. It is is plentiful and until recently very inexpensive. Now however, the time has come for us to think more deeply about food and in particular how we produce it and distribute it. As we begin to run out of easily extractable high quality oil, we are going to see a need for food production to become more local. We all need to get more interested in food and more in touch with how to produce it. While it is work and requires that we learn more, it is much more fun than we might think.
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Again – I picked up a few great nuggets of information from your video. It is all about participation. It’s about getting people connected as well. Short and simple is prefect – too many people are intellectualizing the issues.
Manufacture in America
Energy Independence
Let’s get to work – we are the one’s….
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nice job
This connects well with a previous video you sent about getting rid of or reducing the space we use for grass lawns. There really are better ways to use the small plots of land we call our yards. We have a couple of walnut trees in our yard which attract and support squirrels, birds and other wildlife. Other great choices are fruit trees, other trees and especially plants native to the area where we live. The Morton Arboretum website has lists of native trees and plants for our area.
As your video points out, a garden is also one of the best uses of our yard space. It teaches our kids, connects us to nature and food, saves a few bucks and give us the freshest of fresh food. The best choice for growing vegetables in a yard is the tomato, in my opinion. No store has ever had as ripe and tasty a tomato as we can grow in our yard. Commercial farms need to pick tomatoes before they are ripe, so they are never as tasty. Try this out next Spring!
Great video. Thanks.
Rich