There Is Something Beautiful About Growing Your Own Food
There is something beautiful about walking into your garden and knowing that the food you're about to eat began with a tiny seed. You planted it, watered it and watched it grow. You pulled weeds around it, protected it when you could, waited through the hot days and the rainy ones and then, one day, you walk out and there it is. Something you can pick with your own hands and bring into your kitchen. Maybe it's a tomato warmed by the sun, a handful of green beans, a basket of squash, some herbs for dinner or flowers for the table. There is a quiet satisfaction in growing something yourself that is hard to explain until you've experienced it. But the more I garden, the more I realize that a garden isn't just producing food, it's producing lessons. Those lessons are worth far more than anything we harvest. Children Learn Where Their Food Comes From We live in a world where food is incredibly convenient. We walk into a grocery store, pick something fr...
