My Joy



Standing in my own garden is a joy like none other. It's planted with the best heirloom seeds in the world, and I love to see the rows of sprouts bursting out of the ground. The fruits of my own labor... I can't even tell you how happy I am to inspect my budding plants and dream of what I will do with them when they're full grown.

I'm going to pull beautiful purple carrots out of the ground, rinse off the dirt, and bite right in. You won't be able to hold me back from the green peppers, and you'll have to forgive me as I wax poetic about the simple, honest pleasure of snapping beans or crunching through garden-fresh salads.

In fact, staring at my garden I can only see one problem with this year's crop: There's just not going to be enough of it.

Looks like I'm going to need some more seeds...

Can you have too much of a good garden? I don't think so!

Now I know that I've got a good garden started, but blame it on my tendency to be a worrier - I don't want to run out when it comes to food!

I like being surrounded by an abundance of growing things, knowing that I can use them to provide high-quality, healthy food for my family. Yes, the supermarket is open 24/7, but that's not really the point. I don't trust the quality of the food that I get from the supermarket, and I like having a good alternative right here in my own backyard, just in case.

Let's face it - food security is a real issue these days. There are starving people in Africa... and Alabama. More people than ever before are on food stamps - 46.4 million as of April 2, 2012! They are utterly dependent on our government to keep food on the table, thanks to a little plastic card that is automatically loaded up with credit each month.

Can you imagine what would happen if some inept bureaucrat forgot to throw the switch to re-load those plastic cards someday? Or if the flow of taxpayer dollars ran out and there wasn't going to be any more card re-loading?

It'd be madness in the streets. Chaos in the supermarkets. Total hysteria on the TV.

And I'd be out standing in my garden, glad I took the time to put in a few extra rows of vegetables.

But it's not just a government shut-down I think about when I consider putting in more rows. What if something broke down in our food chain? No one wants to believe it's possible, but it could happen any day. There's just too many variables out there between the ground and the store.

Did you know the average piece of supermarket produce travels approximately 1500 miles before it hits the shelves? That's just plain ridiculous when you really stop and think about it, and not only because of the high price of gas right now.

How great is a vegetable, really, after it's traveled 1500 miles? I went to Asia once and let me tell you how I felt after 1500 miles of travel - worthless!

Yes, I realize that boxed radishes probably handle air travel a lot better than I do (they're probably a lot better at dealing with the TSA, too). The thing is, every year, I have a choice. I can wait for my cucumbers and sweet corn to book it 1500 miles around the world, or I can just walk out to the backyard and get some from my garden.

For me, that's a pretty easy choice.

Know where your food comes from!

It's not just the 1500 miles of travel that bothers me when it comes to supermarket produce - it's also that I don't really know where most of it comes from in the first place, or what kind of conditions it grew up in.

For all I know, that supermarket tomato was a greenhouse baby somewhere in South America, genetically modified to be as big as possible. Or maybe these onions came from an industrial farm in China and got a weekly bath of acid rain. If my cart could talk, would it tell me tales that would make my skin crawl?

I really, really don't want to know. So I'm playing it safe.

I know my backyard isn't exactly the most exciting place in the neighborhood, but that's precisely why I feel good about the garden being back there. Not much happens out there to be afraid of - and nothing goes into the ground I don't know about first.

Anything I plant is going to be 100% all-natural heirloom produce and it's going to grow up in an environment I know and trust. Its journey from the "farm" to the table will be about 250 feet, with a slight detour over to my sink. That's it - no suspicious parentage, no secret growing environment, no manhandling by strangers at customs, and certainly no chemical surprises hidden away in the leaves!

Is it any wonder I want more of what I know is a good thing?

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To your garden,
Jen

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