Good Good Food

I love this time of year in Lake County...

It is SO easy to choose foods that are locally grown. In fact, recently, I was able to eat each meal from foods grown almost entirely from our own farm and garden.

For example, for breakfast: I ate a scramble--sliced zuchinni from the garden sauteed in locally-produced olive oil with two farm fresh eggs (produced by our farm's chickens), seasoned with chives and basil.

For lunch: some fresh grapes of the vines in our garden, and a fresh tomato salad with walnuts and an herb vinagrette. And for dessert: some of Sky Hoyt's local strawberry sorbet.

For dinner:"farm-grown fast food": 2 giant freestone peaches off the peach tree, a handful of cherry tomatoes off the tomato vines in the garden, a bunch of grapes off the grape vines and a sparkling glass of mint-ice water using the mint from our herb garden.

In the United States of America, food travels, on average, 1500 miles from producer to table, requiring huge amounts of fossil fuels both to grow it and deliver it. Most of THIS food traveled less than 100 feet. And I guarantee it tastes a lot better.

Everything is flavorful and colorful and nutritious. Late summer is so bountiful here... it can't get much better than this. I can't think of a better way to heal my own spirit, and heal earth at the same time.