Organic Cabbage Grown at Home
Earlier this year, Bill Moyers interviewed Michael Pollan on the subject of Food, Health and Agri-business. In this compelling, two part interview Pollan discusses industrialized food, climate change, health care, petroleum costs and more as it relates to plain old food. A few highlight comments:
- Vote with your fork!
- The generation being born today is the first in history to have an shorter life expectancy than their parents.
- Be prepared to cook & declare your independence from processed foods
- Make yourself a producer, put in a garden
- Pollan’s 10′ x 20′ veggie garden produces so much food he has difficulty giving away the extras
- Cheap energy has allowed us to outsource so much of our lives & the time of cheap energy may be coming to an end
- Gardening teaches us we can use our bodies to support our bodies.
- Gardening teaches us we can feed ourselves — if we need to (someday).
- It is empowering to know you are not at the mercy of the supermarket.
Teaching Children about Growing Food
Please take some time to watch this segment and learn more about where your food really comes from and how building your own garden will empower your mind, body, and community.
If you’re interested in reading more of Pollan’s writings on food, please visit the Garden Help Garden Store where you will find all of his books — on food and otherwise in the novels, memoirs and more book section. And, if you’re interested in learning how you can put in your own edible garden, please get in touch to schedule a garden coaching session. You’re never too young or too old to start feeding yourself. And, really, it isn’t as difficult or as time consuming as you might think. Once you get started self-sourcing your life, you’ll be hooked for life!
