Sharing the ploughing
A little before three, I went out back to at least make a start on getting the garden plot ready. Weeds pulled out with little effort, and the soil turned over as easily as Quark cheese. Our son joined in, and later the beloved spouse. In short order we had over half of it ready to even out and plant. Friday a friend comes over after work to dig in, and we'll be on our way to a...well, could it be called a Victory Garden? An Impeachment Garden, maybe, or Weeding Out the Bums Garden? We're working towards the concept of eating foods grown from as nearby as possible. Beloved son pointed out that bananas, coffee and cacao are highly wasteful regarding transportation costs, not to mention labor abuses in the places they are grown. Bananas are such a perfect food, but I guess I could substitute them with more apples. Coffee and chocolate; those will be hard to abandon.
posted by isabelita at 3:06 PM
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Well, hello! Although it is Saturday, my bloglines just now tells me about this post. Hmmm.
Anyway, eating local is great! we are very excited becasue the Des Moines Farmer's Market begins its season today. The girls love it because they get to have ice cream for breakfast (from a local dairy, dontcha know...)
I only eat bananas when there are no other fruit in season, because whatever fruit I pick in January is going to be shipped from afar. As to coffee, are there no Pacific Northwest coffees? I would imagine that the wet cool mountains are sort of like the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, no?
Chocolate. Yep, that's the kicker. Always is.
We're going to try to grow as much food as we can this year, to see if we can freeze enough to last us through the winter. What we can't grow ourselves, we're going to buy at the farmer's market and freeze. I had not thought about the shipped chocolate. How about buying the products that are grown organically and with fair-labor practices? The only downside would be the energy used in shipping it. The tea we drink comes all the way from India. Dang. Is there a locally grown caffeine? I can't tell you how grateful I am that Washington is producing red wine!
Ms. imp, our mountains are way too cold to grow coffee, at least until global earming really kicks in...
Seattle has a bunch of neighborhood farmers' markets. Our hood's starts up again next Wednesday. It's small, but provides plenty of choices.
Robin, I guess we will have to trust the "fair trade" businesses...there isn't any source of caffeineated beverage material grown around here.
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