What do you eat? What should you eat?
This is a brief, food-for-thought post. Here I put something out there that I’d like to hear your thoughts on because you probably know more about food and think more about food than most people due to the fact that you are a gardener.
From best to worst, here is the order in which I would rank food.
1. Wild food
(Examples are stinging nettle, volunteer tomatoes, rabbits, the bluefin tuna shown above.)
2. Garden food
(The cabbage you grow, oranges from your tree, potatoes, walnuts, avocados.)
3. Farm food
(From a stall at a farmers market, you buy beets and strawberries, pastured poultry, honey.)
4. Grocery store whole food
(A bag of rolled oats from the bulk bin, some dry beans, raw milk, apples, a steak.)
5. Restaurant food
(A pasta dish, curry with rice, a hamburger.)
6. Food products
(Frozen chicken tenders, most cereal, most beverages, most bread.)
What’s the point of these rankings? The implications are that, therefore, I should eat most from the upper levels and least from the lower levels. And, therefore, the more I forage, catch, and grow, the better.
Any thoughts?
In a few days I’ll add some explanations for the rankings, justifications for the judgements.
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