what goes into our food?

When I was a little girl and got sick , my grandma always took some mint from her garden and made me mint tea. It was always so fresh and made me feel so much better, but today when I want to get the same feeling and use store bought mint tea bags, its never the same. This has always made me wonder why organically grown plants are just all around better than treated store bought plants because I’ve never really thought about what happens to food before it enters the market. Because the basic subjects in school are Math , English, Science, and not agriculture as Barbara Kingsolver intimates in her article, I’ve never thought or learned about where my food comes from. This is something that the farm has taught me. Going to the farm opened my eyes to so many possibilities of food growth. There was pretty much every ingredient needed to make a hearty salad, and much more. Even though I feel that I would be too lazy to keep it up, I would like to grow a lot of my own vegetables and fruits in the future. I know I would feel more comfortable eating the food I grew because I would know exactly how it was grown, where it was grown, and what aides were used to help it grow. I feel that if more people learned how to farm their own crops, there would be much less pesticide and additive prone illness and a lot more self reliance for food.

As said in class, “ We need to reconnect with where our food comes from for our health and the health of the planet.” Besisedes, lemonade made from the lemons in the tree in my backyard is so much better than store bought lemonade anyway!