Toiling with a New Green Thumb
Excerpted from Cold Cereal and Toast
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Sometimes it takes years to find your groove, to discover what truly makes you happy each and every day. You think, toil, seek and shift. Some grooves reveal themselves faster than others; providing varying levels of anxiety and unwelcome hiccups along the way. Inevitably, the process to smooth out the hiccups often leads you one step closer to finding your groove.
I’m still toiling. As I wrap up my last few weeks of my winter CSA, I’m proud of the range of food, recipes, and knowledge I’ve acquired by simply seeking out this new venture. As the search for my groove continues, I’ve shifted to an even more local approach to foods—growing my own.
Having been exposed to Greensgrow, an accomplished urban agriculture initiative breathing new life to an abandoned city corner, articles lauding container gardening for space-challenged city dwellers, and the newest film project from the “King Corn” creators, “Truck Farm,” I’m inspired and hopeful. If the back of a Dodge pick-up truck can cultivate enough produce for a CSA, I can certainly create some semblance of a garden on my windowsill. Or, at least, I can try.
On a much larger scale, it seems seeds are garnering a lot of attention these days. Seed manufacturers are consolidating into large corporations, creating less competition and driving up prices impeding family farm business.
