Heirloomseeds.com is a fantastic resource for all sorts of open-pollinated seeds for vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Not only do they sell seeds, they also offer a wide variety of garden care products like natural fertilizers and pest control, as well as books and other resources for the novice and experienced green thumb alike. Check them out.
A few months on, and overall things appear to be growing well. We lost a few carrots and cabbages, and some itty-bitty critter is eating my beans (we’re mixing up a potion of rhubarb leaves and soap: will let you know how that turns out), but the pumkins are doing far better than expected, and the carrot seeds that we sewed to replace the dead ones appear to be muscleing their way up through the soil. To paraphrase Monty Python, “They’re not dead yet!”
Thought this would be a good companion read to Foer’s “Eating Animals.”
Engaging, thoughtful, and thoroughly researched, Foer applies his novelist’s ear for story to how our culture approaches eating animals.
Inspired by the birth of his son, ‘Eating Animals’ was for Foer a labor of necessity: How do I explain to my son what we eat (or don’t). Does it matter?
“While this book is the product of an enormous amount of research…I think of it as a story…Facts are important, but they don’t, on their own, provide meaning…But place facts in a story, a story of compassion or domination, or maybe both-place them in a story about the world we live in and who we are and who we want to be-and you can begin to speak meaningfully about eating animals.” (14)
Taken a little more broadly, that is as good a summary as any of why we started this blog: Who are we, who ought we to be, and how do we construct a true story from the seemingly endless barrage of ‘facts’ our culture regurgitates about food?
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