How about this muggy weather? Could anything be better for the garden? My garden looks like it is thriving on some tropical island in the South Pacific! Joe and I come home from work every night and marvel at how magnificent it all is. The herbs look positively atomic not to mention that I already have green peppers at half size! Such a joy to be a part of this incredible process of growing vegetables. Really, all I am in this food chain of sun, rain, earth and seed is the stupid human that dug the hole. But still the pride that I feel when a seedling pokes his head out, feels like I just gave birth...um, well, without the labor pains.
Being connected to the earth has changed me. And I have to say, in the last year, the change has been profound. I am beginning to understand the wisdom of eating what is locally grown and only what is in season. This of course, takes a huge amount of planning and commitment, but hey, what else am I going to do? Watch television? So I am slowly making the adjustment of walking the talk so that I can live with a little more integrity and show real respect for this incredible planet that we all get to live on, our Mother Earth. Let us all revel in the pleasure of the sun on our backs, the breeze in our hair, the smell of freshly dug soil and a feeling of well-being after a good workout in the fresh air.
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