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Satisfaction is this!
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Last week there was a day during which I felt particularly celebratory and I felt like treating my family. In my hippy style, I took my boys to the rural side of town and picked up various whole and raw foods from three different farms. Nothing feels quite so satisfying as getting quality food in my kitchen. Yes, I sound like I’m a throwback from 1400s Flanders; however, I find intrinsic value in sustenance that will keep my family healthy and growing!
The kids enjoyed the drive, the animals and, especially, trying honey samples at the bee farm.
Take a look at what a real open-pastured chicken farm looks like and the two dozen eggs from those same chickens, with colors about which Martha Stewart would rave. The last pic is of all the items we brought home.
Clockwise from rear left: bee pollen, raw honey, raw milk and the hardy eggs
Wishing you abundance as the season turns
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A good berry has a little weight to it.
It has been too long since my last post. I have been preparing my home for sale and finally have the sign in the ground. As I’ve been making improvements to my house, I am warmed by the bounty of my small urban garden.
August is blackberry month at my house. From about the first or second week of the month onward, we can pick very large (picture 2″) berries, dripping with antioxidants, fiber, vitamins C, K, A, folic acid and much more. Blackberries have a very high oxygen radical absorbant capacity (ORAC) value. If you’re not familiar with “free radicals,” they are not the anarchists who hang out at the corner picketing for chaos, rather they are the chemical byproducts that float around the body and either get eliminated by antioxidants in our food or they build up and cause more problems. Blackberries are one of the top antioxidant-rich foods. Blackberries help our bodies to eliminate those dangerous byproducts. Why go to the rain forest when you can grow a healthy, productive plant in your own yard, unless you have no yard of course?
What is not to like about the blackberry? Well, nothing really, unless you don’t want thorns. The variety I grow in my garden is thornless, which makes it safe around children. And, yes, they love to pick and these these tasty, nutrient-dense foods and leave dark stains on my porch. Sigh – all in the name of good health.
If you’re not blessed with an abundant garden, then pick up a container of antioxidant-rich blackberries and eliminate those chemical byproducts from your body. In the meantime, I wish you happy abundance wherever you live.
The seeds of a blackberry are high in Omega-3 and -6s.
My daughter just had to leave some for the robins. The sticks were empty the next day.
