September Focus: What We Eat

What did you eat today? No, really, WHAT did you eat today? Do you know where it came from? Any clue how it got to your plate? For most of us, if we really start to think about these questions, we probably lose our appetite. Many of us are quite disconnected from our food. We likely have little actual knowledge of what goes in our bodies on a daily basis. This is somewhat shocking considering that just a few generations ago everyone knew exactly where their food came from. In most cases it came from their backyard. Yes, this meant sacrifice. In most cases, meat was extremely rare - sometimes only eaten once or twice a year (so that Thanksgiving and Christmas meals were truly feasts).

It's beyond naive to think that we can return to this way of life on a grand scale, and many of us will never fathom such a shift. However, we can all know more about our food. We can all make choices to eat locally, and most of us can plant gardens and grow at least some of our own food. We will examine a few practices we think will help what we eat not eat at us and creation quite so much.