“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?

We’ve been feasting off of our csa share’s greens, radishes, turnips and onions again.We’ve also enjoyed local pastured chickens, eggs, milk and beef.

Last night we picked up head after head of lettuce, two kinds of peas, beets & greens, kohlrabi and kale. With the heat I am thankful for all of the lettuce as it will allow us to have salads just about every night this week. We were also able to talk with our csa farmer about their milk share program and see one of their cows being milked. It will be nice to be getting our raw milk even closer to home, from a family we know drinks the same milk we do.

Our garden is rather sad in some areas, and happier in others. Tomatoes, green beans, herbs, cucumbers, squash and hot peppers are all basking in the heat while our peas, lettuce and spinach continue to look sad due to the *swamp* we planted them in. It is a good thing we have our csa.

I have also been pondering how easy it is to become self-righteous in the locavore movement. It’s all too easy, and something we need to guard against.

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

To participate in Food Roots…

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 everyone’s information and encouragement.
3. add your name and url to mr. linky below.

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!