What is real food? Jamie Oliver, the British chef best known for his television series “The Naked Chef,” famously criticized highly processed foods: “Real food doesn’t have ingredients. Real food is ingredients.” Put differently, food author, journalist, and activist Michael Pollan said, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food” (Pollan, p. 148). Practically speaking,…
I love gardening. And I love the real, good food that grows from the soil I helped build. I especially love the numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, and herbs I can grow because I use a diversity of heirloom and open-pollinated seeds. imagination When I step into my garden, I don’t only envision…
While my gardening story is full of happiness and learning, that’s not how it starts. When I was a child — I believe the summer before I was to become a kindergartener — I had a terrible accident. This trauma resulted in me getting a severe concussion, requiring hospitalization for…