“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?”

~ Jessica Prentice ~

Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!

Our food system is destroying the soil, wasting valuable resources and making us sick. The only thing that is sustainable and the only thing that can reverse the many complications of a broken food system is to get back to our food roots. We must plant the seeds ourselves. We must shake the hand of the farmer who grows our food. We must take back our food system.

Where Does My Food Come From?

This past week we have been enjoying salads of lettuce, spinach, radishes and salad turnips at nearly every meal, thanks to our csa. With the peppermint we were given we enjoyed creamy peppermint shakes more than once this week.

Last night we picked six quarts of organic strawberries from our csa farm. Half of them are dehydrating as I type this. This next week we hope to pick more strawberries as well as shell peas and sugar snap peas for the dehydrator and freezer.

Our garden is still too young to produce anything, though the peas are now flowering, I am harvesting small amounts of herbs from my herb pots and some lettuce will be harvested this coming week.

Our csa share, picked up last night, contains lots of lettuce, spinach and greens for the most part so we will be enjoying lots of salads. We are also in talks with our csa farm to join in their cow share program to receive raw milk.

Here is a look at my breakfast this morning: eggs from a local farmer scrambled with onion tops from our csa, strawberries we picked last night and a cup of coffee with local, raw cream (not pictured). A breakfast of local foods seems far more satisfying, somehow, than an anonymous one does.

So I ask you again – where does your food come from?

To participate in Food Roots…

***This week we will be using a slightly different version of Mr. Linky. Click on the image and enter your post.***

1. create a blog post pertaining to local, seasonal foods or what you are doing to find your food’s roots.
2. in your post add a link back here so that others can benefit from your information and encouragement.
3. click on the mr. linky image below and then fill in your post and url.

Feel free to use the Food Roots banner above, if you wish.

If you do not have a blog please share your thoughts in the comments.

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Thank you for participating!