“I’ve dwelled on the all-but-forgotten ideas of people like Weston Price and Sir Albert Howard – ecological thinkers about the human food chain – because they point us down a oath that might lead the way out of the narrow, and ultimately unhelpful, confines of the nutritionism: of thinking about food strictly in terms of its chemical constituents. What we need now, it seems to me, is to create a broader, more ecological – and more cultural – view of food. So let us try.”
Taken from the beginning of ‘The Industrialiazation of Eating: What We Do Know’ chapter in Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food.
I as living, working FarmGirl invited a friend who grew up near by to visit this Easter Weekend. She told me she would love to if she wasn’t already having Sunday Lunch with the family as it was the one time in the year they could all get together.
Many families this Easter will be doing the same whether they are seeing relatives they haven’t in a while or getting together with friends. Sunday Lunch, a dinner with friends, and even breakfast are an important part of how we live. But somehow, the way we live (usually) doesn’t seem to reflect this.
In a recent Church Farm Tweet (follow us at www.twitter.com/ChurchFarmAR) link to an article on www.alternet.org by Anna Brones who discusses ‘What relation do we have to the food we eat?’ the conclusion is drawn that through a series of disconnects we, as a society, have lost the ability to look at food as part of our culture.
At Church Farm we aim to put the connection back into place between food and people. The farm is regularly visited by those seeking to see a real farm in action... ...
Continue reading this in next week's blog.
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