I love the Fall season for many reasons. Cooler nights and Crisp Apples colored leaves line the yards and streets. Halloween costumes, upcoming holiday parties and thoughts gradually turning to indoor activities. Lot’s of harvest festivals and more farm stands peddling their wares. Visiting local flea markets always seems more inviting in the Fall. Fashion is all a flurry as layering becomes the game changer for the most versatile look. Fond memories of those that have passed away during this season brings forth great gratitude for the present moments.
Both Fall and Spring show us up front and personal just how dependent we are as human’s on the Seasonal Changes. While not all people around the globe experience these changes first hand. I believe that our connection to the Earth has us making (unconsciously) adjustments. Whether it is reactions to the temperature change or visual cues as the daylight and moons appearing nightlight. Eating habits from raw and lemon to warm and steamed foods. FALL is my All season!
Fall is generally wrapped in association with harvesting and Halloween (in America). Both festive times for different reasons but all considered the Fall experience. In today’s Global marketplace it is easy to forget The Farmer. We have traded off local farming for larger productions of individual crops. While some of this is necessary to enjoy the availability, diversity and access to foods we have. It does separate us from natures process that has not changed very much. To prepare, plant, grow and harvest food. If you are lucky enough to have a local farm or access to locally produced foods then you taste the difference. Buying from a Farmer’s market and/or local farms is a great way to support your community and eat healthy. Which I believe now is being called “clean” foods. If you have every been to a farm there is not much “clean” about it. LOL But that is ok because our whole gut is full of bacteria and good soil with good practices for seeds, water and harvesting makes for nutrition foods. Our bodies are simple and we all need the same things in various ways yet we manufacture foods that are really for all purposes kind of dead before they hit the stove. Eating well means eating fresh whole foods in the variety that is nutritionally best. As a society, having available such foods is a necessity for the betterment of everyone’s overall health and well being.
When you are enjoying the food you eat give some thought to where it comes from and what is really in it. To me being a Foody is not about cooking up everything, going everywhere to see food, worshiping food, dressing it up and dishing it is small potions for only the wealthy to enjoy and either is it something to obsess over. It is about understanding now nature gives forth an abundance of food opportunities, provides the soil, water and sun to make it grow and in partnership with humans that provided the labor, knowledge to fix challenges, and how to provide food for everyone. Greed has no place in the process of getting food to the table.
May Fall bring you a harvest of Awareness and many festive times ahead.
Ramona