Grow Something, Anything!

The machine wants you to think that food is a product. Something that is processed, enriched, packaged, sanitised, wrapped in plastic, sent to a shop or delivered to your door. It's all part of a difficult process. It's complicated. Too complicated for you. Too difficult. Too dangerous to contemplate less you eat a bruised fruit, or semi raw vegetable. This afternoon, I popped 15 little seeds into tiny handfuls of compost. I made a small hole with my dibber, dropped them in, gently covered them and then gave them a little water. I clipped on the lid of the propagator tray to create a warm micro climate and sat them on the windowsill where they can bathe in morning sunlight to trigger the act of new growth and life. Tomato Urbikany and Tomato Grushovka whose wonderful Eastern European names hint at hardy heavy fruit to arrive in the late summer. Asturian Tree Cabbage will promise tall cabbage leaves throughout the year and if lucky repeating in 2027. Tasty, healthy, real food to savour…