Yesterday, Milo had his first oatmeal cereal! He was so funny, pulling everything into his mouth with such urgency! We also got a new car seat for Rowan so that Milo could have his old one, and Rowan was so excited about it, he completely dressed himself trying to get us to go somewhere in his new carseat (which was still in the living room.)
I went to bed thinking about the holiday letter, especially after finishing This Organic Life (Thank you so much Rach and Frankie) and realized that although I have made a great effort to eat more locally, we didn't do as great of a job in the first half of the year. I don't want to over-represent what we've done.
Last year, I tried Door-to Door Organics, being pregnant and frustrated with the availability of food at the local grocery store, but that didn't really make me feel too much better because here was this food being shipped from all over the world and then delivered to my door. Then i read BK's Animal Vegetable Miracle and had many epiphanies about how I look at food and what I consider when i buy food or choose recipes. We already belonged to a CSA, (Monroe Farms) but didn't do the winter share b/c I thought it was basically just potatoes.(it's not! we did it this year)
Anyway, what I should have said is that the first time I walked into Safeway (i think it was June) and asked what was grown in colorado, and they said... the green onions. i just walked around in a sort of wonder. All this food brought here in great quantity regardless of what is actually able to grow where we live. I get the clear impression, like Gussow (TOL) that most people don't care about how or where their food is grown, and maybe you don't either. But I didn't want to make it sound like here we were eating all from our backyard and whatnot, because we aren't. (yet!)
Maybe in a handful of years I'll have more things worked out for eating more locally (especially from Feb to May), but my biggest two goals for the garden this year are to get a functioning compost and plant some raspberry bushes. My next book I'm going to read is another by Pollan, Second Nature .
As you have already figured, both boys are napping at the same time! Milo is getting more regular in the pm, which gives me hope. Hope that Rowan doesn't give up his nap!!! That way I may actually have a few minutes to study (or write here!) during the day. School starts again next week, wish us luck and sleep!
New Years is upon us, and my list of resolutions calls for more canning, more raspberry picking and more strawberring picking.
I went to bed thinking about the holiday letter, especially after finishing This Organic Life (Thank you so much Rach and Frankie) and realized that although I have made a great effort to eat more locally, we didn't do as great of a job in the first half of the year. I don't want to over-represent what we've done.
Last year, I tried Door-to Door Organics, being pregnant and frustrated with the availability of food at the local grocery store, but that didn't really make me feel too much better because here was this food being shipped from all over the world and then delivered to my door. Then i read BK's Animal Vegetable Miracle and had many epiphanies about how I look at food and what I consider when i buy food or choose recipes. We already belonged to a CSA, (Monroe Farms) but didn't do the winter share b/c I thought it was basically just potatoes.(it's not! we did it this year)
Anyway, what I should have said is that the first time I walked into Safeway (i think it was June) and asked what was grown in colorado, and they said... the green onions. i just walked around in a sort of wonder. All this food brought here in great quantity regardless of what is actually able to grow where we live. I get the clear impression, like Gussow (TOL) that most people don't care about how or where their food is grown, and maybe you don't either. But I didn't want to make it sound like here we were eating all from our backyard and whatnot, because we aren't. (yet!)
Maybe in a handful of years I'll have more things worked out for eating more locally (especially from Feb to May), but my biggest two goals for the garden this year are to get a functioning compost and plant some raspberry bushes. My next book I'm going to read is another by Pollan, Second Nature .
As you have already figured, both boys are napping at the same time! Milo is getting more regular in the pm, which gives me hope. Hope that Rowan doesn't give up his nap!!! That way I may actually have a few minutes to study (or write here!) during the day. School starts again next week, wish us luck and sleep!
New Years is upon us, and my list of resolutions calls for more canning, more raspberry picking and more strawberring picking.
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