Sustainable Food; Club Reclusive, Exclusive or Inclusive?

 

What is sustainable food? -a new idea, a fad, perhaps?
Neither new nor a fad; sustainable food is produced with help of Nature and seasoned with a pinch of good, old, common sense, and it's been around for thousands of years. It requires less cultivation and yields better crops. Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and other great cultures, and civilizations did it by growing their food on fertile banks of the River Nile, Tigris, and the Euphrates, rather than in the middle of the Sahara Desert, or someplace, else.
My father-in-law enjoyed sustainable plant cultivation, too. He called it "finding sweet spots", claiming a garden, no matter how small, will always have "sweet spots" for growing one thing, and not the other. Sustainability is a very healthy attitude to life, and consumption; it means less disappointment and more reward. Lack of it affects us all, already. While it's nice to see imported, specialty goods, around, it is hard to understand why, lettuce in one's local store comes from different countries, and continents, rather than from farms next door. Have we forgotten how to grow it? Did we really need to chop off that Amazon Rainforest, to grow more of it there, not here? Is displaced, and forceful agriculture good for all of us, or just a few "grand plan" visionaries, with oversized egos? The simple answer to these is: no, no, and no.

Why not cherish diversity, Nature, and ourselves, again? Let's support, and enjoy locally grown produce, first; it's fresher, more nutritious, and cheaper to produce. It is better for us, and the environment.

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Special Thanks to Town & Country Gardens Contributors: bulabean, dive-angel (Karin), Jasmine&Roses, Rita Crane Photography. Rita Crane, daughter of LIFE magazine photographer Ralph Crane. Her work can be seen on Flickr at Rita Crane Photography or on her website., TMR Davies, W.D. Williams