Healthy Clean Food

Gardens produce, according to the season. It is the time that we share produce with friends and coworkers. It is a time when we are all reminded just how precious fresh food is. Speaking with my daughter this afternoon, we were talking about the blessing of food that is not riddled with chemicals or pesticides or poison. It makes me very sad to realize that some of the health challenges the next generations will have is because of all the nasty things that big food has put into our food supply or medical supply. My daughter was vaccine injured in her teens and will struggle for decades because of that and because of food and environmental poisons that make it hard for her body to heal and function just right.

Like me, she makes her own bread and prefers farm fresh eggs. I am glad that my kids have a taste for healthy, clean food. I may not have taught them quite as many food preparation tips like my grandmother and mother taught me, but they are smart and realize that good food is essential to good health. They also know what it means to be hungry on occasion. In my experience, kids who grew up with a little growl in their bellies don’t tend to be picky when it comes to food, fuel matters more than being finicky. Gratitude and manners more than culinary preference.

When they come to the farm, I don’t hear, “I don’t like this, I don’t eat that.” They enjoy fresh air and the healthy appetite it creates for meals that include okra and beets, cabbage and cucumbers. They love the fresh healing sweetness of garden blackberries or fall applesauce. I think one of the most fun things to look forward to as I put up some pickles, sauerkraut and borscht this weekend is knowing I can soon share these healthy traditions with our new grand baby as well!