21st Century Homesteading: Why Grow Your Own Food?

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February/March 2007
By Harvey Ussery 
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Reconnecting Through Food

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Surely there has been no society in human history more estranged from the natural world than ours, and we experience that broken relationship in what we eat and the way we eat it: artificial foods bearing little relation to their origin in soil or in living plants and animals; eaten thoughtlessly, on the run.

Modern eating is above all about forgetting — about what it is we are eating, about its origins in living systems. The alternative is to learn to know our food intimately, to care intensely about its quality and its role in our lives, to share it with gratitude and respect.

Whenever we grow our own food, or seek it from local sources, we reconnect with the natural year, the passing of the seasons, the interdependence of all forms of life in the great web. By participating in the creation of our food, from soil to table, we find our way back to food as a sacred gift.

— Now that he has outlined why he and his wife choose to grow most of their own food, Ussery will explain a variety of basic homesteading skills in upcoming issues. For more about Harvey and Ellen, read “Our 21st Century Homestead” in the December/January 2007 issue and visit their  Web site.

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