COOK AND GROW YOUR OWN GARDEN

The best way to get rid of the Fast Food culture and its values (that the food has to be fast, cheep and easy to cook; that food is a industry product, not a natural product; that food is a fuel, not a form of communication and bounding with other people or a bounding with the nature) is to participate to the complex but fascinate processes that involves the procure of food.

•  I feel better in the garden than in the kitchen, but I realize that our relationship between food and eating depends on the spent time for this. The garden offers us a lot of solutions, both practical and philosophical way, so that we can eat healthy.
• My vegetables garden is rather modest- 3/6 m strip of land, in the front of my house- that’s why in the summer, we give up the supermarket basket, and buy only fruits from the market.
• And even if we live in the city and own just a strip of land we have plenty place for some trees with fruits. The garden is the perfect solution if you cannot afford expensive organic products: the own grown fruits and vegetables are fresher than any product on the market and will not cost more than one ore a couple hours per week and a couple of seeds.
• The own garden has other benefits; it’s a beautiful way to involve your body. Most of the time, what we call recreation or a workout, means physical work, without any purpose, that’s way the satisfaction will be much higher when the physical activity has a specific purpose.

•  Gardening means also intellectual activity. You have to know the different soils, to establish the one that fits better to the condition of your garden, to know subtle differences in terms of light, humidity and quality of the soil and the way to fight against pests without using chemicals.