Healing Thots

I’m not sure when I became all consumed about getting back to nature. I remember as a child being embarrassed by my family’s natural lifestyle. Back then I interpreted our lifestyle as being out of necessity, not choice. But I don’t know if this is how my parents thought and it is too late to ask them. What I do know is – I wish I’d paid more attention and had taken advantage of the gardening and preserving wisdom that was available to me, instead of resenting the work and wondering why we couldn’t just buy the canned stuff at the store like other people did.

My Dad always grew a huge garden. He would be out in the garden at dawn, laboring over the plants from seed to harvest and then would announce he was done. It was then that my mother would take over. She picked and preserved for days on end until the dirt-floor cellar was filled from floor to ceiling with quart mason jars. Just as my parents fussed over the vegetables, Grandma had us traveling around picking fruit. A season did not go by without orchard-fresh peaches, apples, cherries, and blueberries. At Thanksgiving time we could always count on apple and cherry pie made from the preserved fruit.

I now appreciate and seek out, farm-fresh eggs, grass-fed beef, and raw milk. I now appreciate the value of unprocessed, fresh-cooked food. I have always liked to cook and find it rather sad that so many of the younger generation really don’t know how to cook an honest-to-goodness, home-cooked meal. For many, opening a box of dry ingredients and adding some liquid or un-thawing frozen ingredients and then heating them up are considered home cooking.

These days we know very little about our food supply. Unless a person takes an interest and starts digging into the facts, we will not know about genetically-modified food, about how pesticides poison our bodies, and how chemically-laden food reeks havoc on our health. We cannot assume the companies we purchase food from are providing safe, healthy food. We cannot assume the FDA and other governing entities are going to protect us. Take responsibility for your own health and well-being. Learn what builds and repairs your body; realize what foods break down your body and why. Then you can make your food choices based on knowledge and not on the assumption that if it is FDA approved, that it must by okay to eat.

Blessings,
Priscilla

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