Food Roots, September 10th: where does your food come from?

“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?

I am so pleased and thankful to see tomatoes everywhere. They sit on our kitchen windowsill, they have taken over my kitchen island, they sit in brown paper bags in bedrooms and on kitchen tables. They come from our garden and from our csa. Last weekend I picked up about 20 pounds of small roma tomatoes, dehydrating half and making the most delicious tomato soup out of the other half. Canned tomato soup can not compare to fresh. Basil is equally as abundant around here and I have been freezing it by the sheet pan. I hope to do a post soon on my herb preserving adventures – from catnip to sage to basil I have been freezing and dehydrating in preparation for winter.

I will most likely spend at least half of the day on Sunday canning tomatoes. This evening, when our home goes quiet, I hope to halve and dehydrate the 10 pound box of cherry tomatoes we purchased last night. But first I must clear the blueberries out of the dehydrator.

I am truly in awe and grateful for God’s provisions. I have learned so much through my food preservation adventures this year and am looking forward to seeing the end results.

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.

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