Pt 2 Can we develop a deeper appreciation for Nature?

As I said when I initially asked the question - of course we can.

And after watching and reading reports about ongoing environmental and economic damage in the Gulf of Mexico, we should.

And we should start immediately.

After you’ve started or expanded your garden and purchased a few packets of vegetable seeds (please click here to visit Pt 1 and some delightful context), try the following so your appreciation for Nature can deepen:

Eat local food. And if you have children, take them to a farm where some of their food is grown. Point at a cabbage, tell your kids what it is, and be proud you can still identify a living plant.


["Kids, are these turnips or red peppers?": photo by GAH]

(Hey, even if you don’t have kids, go to the farm. Learn how to spot a turnip from 50 paces).

Going to a farm and growing our own vegetables is a step forward, not backward, as some would have you believe.

Any step back from heavily-industrialized, fertilized and fossil-fueled agribusiness is forward thinking.

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