and.......Go!

So, to begin, I did not mean for the blog address to sound (in any way) like the recently popular book and movie: Eat Pray Love.  However, I realized after I saved it that it might sound similar.  What I wanted to do was find a really short and simple way of describing my idea... which is not easy to summarize as a blog address...

I just recently became a member of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group called Dominion Harvest.  This week or next will be the first week of my first experience with locally grown natural produce, meat, eggs, and cheese - delivered right to my door!  The convenience of it is honesty what sealed the deal for me.  How can I resist?  Then when I realized just HOW much food I should anticipate from my first delivery, I got nervous.  This is going to be a challenge.  I mean, I know how to cook and have been told that my food is pretty good...but it's just me here.  As a single person about to receive a shit-ton of produce, I am going to have to cook my tail off and then learn the best way of preserving the food.  Or just invite a bunch of people over and give it away.

I feel like co-ops are truly at the heart of where I think our society/ culture should be heading.  I really like the idea of being a part of what you are buying or selling....having more invested.  Instead of constantly trying to out-do each other and competing, I feel strongly that we should all be a little more cooperative and add our powers together to work for a common goal.  As in: we are all a part of this cluster fuck, why not try to help each other out in order for our OWN lives to improve?  Am I right?

I feel this is true for many aspects of our society and I'm sure I will eventually bore the entire internet to death with my philosophies on such things as public education....but I digress.  It's just that I think while we can all have vastly different backgrounds and beliefs and what-not, we can find common ground in a few things.  Like: we should all have opportunities to eat healthy, safely-grown, digestible, non-toxic food.  Right?  (Just like we should all have the opportunity to obtain a good, well rounded, education.  I mean...right?)

The state of our nation's food industry is not something I claim to know a lot about.  I mean, I read Fast Food Nation and watched all those documentaries and that was enough for me.  The point is, I would like to share whatever it is I learn through this process of buying-all-farm-raised-food-and-making-it-into -meals-I-can-live-with over the internet.  It will be cool it works out and I can somehow also make it more palatable for average working people to feel comfortable cooking actual food.  From actual farms.

I mean, if I can survive without chicken McNuggets (yummm) and Lean Cuisines (soooo convenient) then anyone can.  I mean anyone.  I am not a vegetarian or anything (although I have been in the past) and I don't claim to have any extensive knowledge about nutrition or--anything really.  Just gonna try it out.  And I'm gonna post it on the internet and see what happens!!!