Growing my own food is always a thrill. My garden is often beset by lack of rain and surplus of grubs. When it produces something I can eat, even just spinach, I enjoy cooking and eating the spoils. This post is inspired by the lovely rainy season we are having. My garden grows so much better in these conditions.
All the stonefruit is flowering and the bees are buzzing around excitedly. This week I have harvested broccoli, snow peas, spinach, bananas and paw paw.
Charlotte Wood says it so beautifully in her book ‘Love and Hunger’ – “Pinching the bud of a basil flower off a knee-high plant by the kitchen door and tossing it into a pan of pasta sauce might not satisfy as deeply as making cheese from the milk of your own cows, as does one gentleman of my acquaintance, but it’s still there, this tiny thread of connection between me and the earth.”