photo by Melinda Owens, location TCB Farms.
As the world around us gets seemingly infinitely busy and we face more demands than the day before, I am grateful for the moments of repose, or escape which gets me thinking about how nice it is to be surrounded by nature. Beautiful, fragrant flowers with intermittent sitting nooks, splashes of folky yard art, and a not so small garden teaming with fresh vegetables and fruits.
I am refreshed to see the resurgence of city and roof top gardens, people opting to purchase locally grown, fresh produce and patronize restaurants who do the same. This helps bring awareness to the importance of making your local town or city a self-sustaining entity. It would be a terrible mistake to forsake the knowledge of how to till the earth and feed ourselves. Why not teach our children key important facts about when to plant, what to plant and what these foods need to flourish and grow? It can’t hurt. Compare it to the other trivial knowledge that we cram at them, much of which can be considered just as useless to their survival in various societies. As our values change based on what the world around us demands, lets not allow the knowledge of how to preserve our humanity pass away!
