The old adage “You are what you eat” is more important these days than ever before in human history. Everything you put into your body plays an integral part in the general health and overall well-being of that body, so it pays to be selective. Fresh food is always best: the less your preserve food, the more nutrients it contains.

In the past, most families took care of their own basic food requirements, but nowadays, most of us have relinquished that responsibility to someone else. Today, the most common source of food is a supermarket. But mass-production has a price, and not just a fiscal one; taste, quality and freshness have also been compromised.

For us, the decision to take control of our own food supply was an easy one: the nearest supermarket is 60 miles away and we only head that way about once every month, at the most. We found we were craving fresh food, and the simplest solution was to start growing it ourselves. We set up gardens and got some chickens. We help a friend with his goats in exchange for milk, and we use the desert’s bounty as much as possible. If we can grow food in such an arid, hostile environment, it can be done anywhere, even the city.

There’s just one problem though, you get addicted. Now that we’ve been eating fresh food for a few years, we can’t go back to tasteless tomatoes, gray eggs, and watery milk. If we eat out in places where they serve preservative-rich or chlorinated/disinfected food, we suffer the next day. But that’s the great thing about farming, if you control where it comes from, you control what goes in or on it.

Gardening And Plants
Livestock And Animals
Wild Foods
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