The Price of Food
Costs come down when people buy from small & organic farms and not buy food produced by feedlots. So that the small & organic farms can makes ends meet without having to jack up prices.
Costs come down when people support local or nearby farms and not food transported from foreign countries.
Costs come down when people eat food that is seasonal and not demand to have pineapple in February.
Costs come down when people learn to cook for themselves from scratch in large batches and to preserve and store food.
Costs come down when people grow vegetable gardens in their yards and not monoculture grass lawns. When they grow fruit trees in yards and parks and not imported ornamental species of trees that produce no edible fruit or nuts.
Costs come down when people eat at home and not at restaurants.
Costs come down when the government supports farmers and not large scale corporations, packing plants and fucking McDonalds.
Costs come down when people realize they don’t need super-sized meals in order to eat well. Portions eaten today by folks in Western society are double the size they were even 50 years ago.
Costs come down when people don’t… Continue reading
Speaking to a Damaged Landscape
Emma H asked in a comment to another post:
Do you ever find when communing with land spirits, that the condition of the land around them affects the clarity of their answer?
There are some places here that I like to walk, that are a little abused (seriously, what’s the point of fly tipping?) and I figure if I tried to commune with the spirits there, they’d be more interested in trying to draw my attention to their own issues. Which, given the condition of their land, is fair enough!
Good question Emma!
Just as you find when visiting a friend who have endured some trauma or injury, when visiting a natural place that has been harmed it will have something of a “one track mind”
Which is, as you say, fair enough.
But also as with visiting a hurt friend, one you’ve visited a few times and listened attentively to their expression of pain, you will develop a closer relationship. Often once they realize how good of a friend you have been to listen to their hurts, they will happily open up their ears to you and reciprocate.
All relationships are a matter of give and take. Sometimes… Continue reading
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