Do you know where your food comes from?  I do! 

June 22, 2015

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In this blogpost I introduce one of the most important people in my life—Har.  He is one of the farmers who grows my food.
But it wasn’t always like that.

 

When I first began to get serious about my health and what I ate I started to look for the most accessible way to get the freshest produce. Living in the city the local health food shops didn’t quite stock the freshest choices. There just wasn’t the demand for it. And it was  over priced for the amounts that I needed to sustain myself.

 

So I found the main organic distributors. The middle man. The companies that bought bulk from the farmers and then supplied the organic shops and businesses in town. The alarm would be set for 4am and with a 40 minute drive to the fringes of the city, this would be our weekly dedicated ‘shopping trip’.

 

Armed with a trolley the size of a mini platform we would shop alongside the health store owners in the huge market sheds. Most things had to be bought in bulk. So whatever was in season was eaten. We were coming home with boxes of cos lettuce, a variety of greens, an abundance of vegetable and fruits, perhaps it was oranges and cherries that week, and peaches and passion fruits the following week. Life was pretty simple, we might not have been eating a huge variety however what we were eating was all organic and it tasted fantastic.

 

And It made me happy knowing that I was one step closer to eating from the land.

 

Things have changed since then. I ended up moving closer to the farmer. But the farmers also have better access to us now. Today due to the demand, Farmers’ Markets have exploded in most places. It’s so good to see! We really have many more choices today, real opportunities to vote with our dollar to make a stand for what is most important to us.

 

In this video I share my joy and love for organic farming and knowing where my food comes from.

 

From being a shopper in stores who bought food off the shelves and in boxes, it’s now all about my relationship with the very person that grows it.
Picking lettuce, rocket, all the herbs that I’ll be eating that week whilst catching up with Har is so enriching.

 

Its really living from mother earth to the table. And this gives me a sense of community and interaction that I never felt before, enriching my life even more.

 

See you in Bali on our next 100% organic retreat! www.artofliferetreats.com
Oksana

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