{"id":3956,"date":"2018-08-03T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:54:47","slug":"food-gardeners-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/food-gardeners-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Food gardeners are . . . different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I took this picture of a banana peel and an orange rind because they made me realize how weird I am, how weird we are as food gardeners. The banana peel and orange rind were lying on the floor mat of my truck; I was taking them home with me. There was a trash can in spitting distance, but I\u2019d decided to keep the peel and rind for compost. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is trash to most people, but . . .<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food gardeners are . . . different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two days prior I\u2019d been at my grandma\u2019s house where we had a barbecue for my mom\u2019s birthday and I went home with four bags of food waste &#8212; only I\u2019d never asked for it. My grandma also grows vegetables and fruit trees. When I was young, she also had a coop full of chickens. She doesn\u2019t compost much anymore because she generates very little food waste, but she knows the deal. She presented the corn husks, tomato stems, pineapple cuttings, etc. to me: \u201cFor your chickens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThanks, Grandma! I\u2019ll turn them into eggs and bring you a few next time I visit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7708209615665595\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5340255544\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer has me down. A friend who gardens and lives nearby is also feeling low. We\u2019re both in inland Southern California where July has been the worst July of all time, for food gardeners (and farmers). I talk to friends who live at the beach or friends who don\u2019t garden and they act like nothing\u2019s wrong. But we were despairing. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is 115 degrees going to be the new normal?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our avocado trees are thrashed and browned. Much fruit has fallen to the ground. Our apples are burnt. And this comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/effects-of-a-warm-and-wacky-winter-on-deciduous-fruit-trees\/\">warm and wacky winter that resulted in the worst fruit season for deciduous fruit trees<\/a> that I\u2019ve experienced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another friend who lives close to the beach and never experienced the 100-degree days that I did, did experience his apple, apricot, and nectarine trees barely growing leaves this spring and blooming flowers even more pathetically. He was so eager to share his Desert Delight nectarines with me this summer because he\u2019s sure they\u2019ll be the best I\u2019ve ever tasted, but he doesn\u2019t even have one fruit for himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We observe the weather, we food gardeners, we read the weather forecasts, we might even have our own weather station, and we think about the weather differently. Rain is not a nusaince to us. We\u2019re quite willing to get our hair wet and our shoes muddy because we know what it does for our plants. More than welcome it, some of us even try to trap it and keep it in barrels. Others usher it down their driveways into the storm drains with nary a thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We notice that <a href=\"http:\/\/cagardenweb.ucanr.edu\/Growing_Grapes_in_the_California_Garden\/?uid=17&amp;ds=436\">grapes in the grocery store are way bigger than natural<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are impressed that farmworkers can pick corn on the cob at exactly the right time because we\u2019ve messed that up in our gardens. Or how about picking watermelons from your garden at the right time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our water bill isn\u2019t just an expense. Proper accounting has it partially deducted from our grocery bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know that nectarine trees smell like nectarines even if they have no fruit on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we think the food from our yards tastes wonderful even when it doesn\u2019t. The banana peel and orange rind that I\u2019d refused to throw in the trash and took a picture of were not just any banana peel and orange rind. They\u2019d been ceremoniously eaten with a friend, because that\u2019s what weird food gardeners do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The orange rind was actually a Gold Nugget mandarin rind. The Gold Nugget had come from a farmers market and I was blown away at how good they tasted, especially here at the very end of July. They were better than the Gold Nuggets from my own tree. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had to share this one with a friend who also grows many citrus trees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also shared the banana. My mom had grown this one. I peeled it and then broke the little cream-colored guy in half and, after chewing and thinking, we both agreed that it beat store-bought Cavendish types.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI like that it\u2019s small,\u201d he said. \u201cBy the time I\u2019m near the end of a store-bought banana, I just want it to be over with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTotally! And the texture\u2019s better too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYeah, it\u2019s not just mushy. And there\u2019s some complexity to the flavor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think I taste some apple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYeah,\u201d he agreed. \u201cIf anyone overheard our conversation right now they\u2019d think we were so pretentious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We explored that. We explored it for about thirty minutes. He hoped his children would someday appreciate that they were able to walk out of their house and pick snacks of trees in the yard. He wished cities would plant fruit trees in public instead of only ornamental or shade trees. Many take the same amount of water and maintenance. In California, our grocery stores should have very small produce sections because we should be growing so much in our yards. He told a story of his mom secretly picking oranges from her neighbor\u2019s tree which hung over her fence only to later find out that the neighbor didn\u2019t even know it was an orange tree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I volleyed with a story of the pastor of my mom\u2019s church who had a large Fuerte avocado tree in his yard, and when I asked him if I could pick a couple he said I could have as many as I wanted. \u201cWe don\u2019t eat them. My wife still just buys avocados at the grocery store,\u201d he\u2019d said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But my friend and I wouldn\u2019t always have been shocked by these stories. We may be food gardeners now, but in the past we\u2019d been somewhat unaware too, about where food comes from, how to grow it, and even how to eat it. He said that the first time he grew zucchini he wasn\u2019t sure what he needed to do after picking one in order to sanitize it to make it safe to eat. That\u2019s what you grow up thinking when you buy food from a grocery store: Produce needs to be washed. You never ask why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3959\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Food gardeners are different\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Food-gardeners-are-different-Edited.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these ruminations had been sparked early that morning when my friend had announced: \u201cYou <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to grow a Celestial fig.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had brought three from his tree for me to taste. We were in a beach parking lot because we were going to surf together, but before we could do that I had to go over to his car and taste.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each fig was at a slightly different stage of ripeness, my friend explained. He waxed about the variation in flavor that each would have. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He put the three in my hand and I ate the middle one, skin and all. I declared it delicious. It truly was delicious. But that wasn\u2019t enough, of course. When you grow something, you get to know its nuances in a way you never had before, and it becomes your baby of which no one is prouder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He talked about how he\u2019d never really liked figs before growing his own, he got his knife out to cut the second one open so I could taste it without the skin &#8212; to get a more pure experience, he described the subtle change in skin color and how it indicates the flavor, he told me how he makes fig jam by scooping the pulp out and only adding a dash of cinnamon and it\u2019s richer than any jam ever, he recounted how he checks his tree constantly but somehow a few had ripened rapidly and fallen to the ground without him noticing, he remembered how gophers and construction guys had nearly killed the tree in the past, and eventually I brought the third fig back to my truck. I\u2019d eat it later, after we finally surfed, probably when I got home. Wow, my friend is . . . kind of nuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You might also like to read my posts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/gardening-with-kids\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/what-is-organic-actually\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/oh-mistakes-ive-made-thinking-flowers-girls\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture of a banana peel and an orange rind because they made me realize how weird I am, how weird we are as food gardeners. The banana peel and orange rind were lying on the floor mat of my truck; I was taking them home with me. 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