This is a quote from the movie Fresh, which concerns itself with…well, take a look-see for yourself:
There is a growing movement to take back the production of food to move it back to where it should be: local or homegrown. Mass-produced food is an abomination because of the scale required to do the mass production; in an attempt to make cheap food, you get cheap food.
When you buy food that way, it tends to be less processed, fertilized and cultivated more naturally, and raised with less poison applied to it (pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are nothing short of poison).
We grow some of our vegetables, herbs, and some of our own fruit (apples, plums, and grapes–Minnesota is hell on fruit blossoms, and the hardy varieties of apricots, peaches, and cherries just can’t beat our late frosts). We make our own honey and propolis. What we don’t grow (or grow enough of) we buy at local farmers’ markets when it’s in season.
St. Paul's downtown farmer's market
We’re slowly destroying our front lawn to make way for our gardens. Lawns were originally used to pasture sheep inside secure manor compounds in England; now they’re an affectation that serves absolutely no purpose to pollinators and wildlife, and really only serves to enrich the lawn care industry and people like my ex-neighbor the Lawn Nazi.
Yes, what we’re doing is a highly inconvenient way to make food. It also guarantees the quality of our food, and it’s highly satisfying.
…and that’s good enough.
When The Bitch (the affectionate name we have for the doe from the neighboring thicket) isn’t eating the buds of the roses, they are quite gorgeous. Here are three that are currently blooming.
