Last week it rained the morning of Farm School...I arrived feeling my good nature a bit challenged. The kids did not, however seemed fazed in the least, and enjoyed their morning walk through the woods, while others slept...
...and drank homemade Sassafras tea. The central mission of the farm is to "share the joy of food with those who hunger", so we had a good conversation with one of the farmers about why people in our area might be hungry. We also looked at a few pages of Hungry Planet, which is a collection of photographs and interviews with families from around the world about food. The focus photograph of each family's chapter is the members of the family gathered around all the food they will eat in a week.
3 comments:
sigh. I love your farm days.
And I've been craving mandalas with nature's bounty.
Soon, I hope.
A beautiful autumn day!
Food mandalas! What a great idea. The book you mention, Hungry Planet, is very interesting. I remember being stunned by the photos showing types and amounts of food eaten in Africa vs the US. And all of the packaging in our culture vs the fresh veggies and grains in some rural cultures. I bet the kids were interested in those pics.
kerry - oh man. after showing those photos of mali, and bhutan, i turned to one from texas - two teenagers with open pizza boxes, and so many boxes and cans and bottles of food that it was like "where's waldo" to find the bunch of grapes and a tomato in there. that made for an interesting conversation about why not everyone grows their own food...soil health, location, lack of know-how...
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