Food Roots, September 24: 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 have continued to slowly dehydrate foods from our csa, our garden and the farmer’s market. I doubt it’s enough to "get us through winter" so to speak, but maybe a month or so. I have enjoyed drying food so much that I wrote a whole post about it. 

My husband has been working in the garden to prepare to plant garlic. He pulled up our 30 or so tomato plants this past week and we plan to plant our very small garlic harvest from last year as well as some local garlic that we purchased. I’m also trying to come up with things I can grow inside over the winter – at least herbs and possibly some greens.

Things are winding down and I am wondering how much longer y’all want to continue with food roots. Participation is starting to dwindle a bit more, but as long as someone is still interested I’ll keep the series going and will share about my adventures until we are looking at freezing temperatures.

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!