Eating Defensively by Growing Your Own
For the past year and half gardening, growing your own food, and being in touch where your food comes from is more than ever hitting the hearts of many families, and individuals all over the world. Right here in Sooke, working at a local garden centre I have seen its impact. With veggie starts arriving, only to be sold out by weeks end. Just about anywhere you have space, either in a square foot garden, raised beds, planters and pots you can plant food. There is a feeling you get of pride, ownership, freshness, excitement, and sometimes frustration, when you first harvest the veggies that were lovingly sowed, watered, and tended to during the growing season.
Carole Christopher is Octobers speaker and I couldn’t have said it any better than what Carole submitted; “This talk, titled “Eating Defensively by Growing Your Own”, focuses first on the industrial food supply and how it has changed our diet and affected our health. It then looks at how we can take steps to regain control, one of which is to grow food to meet some of our own food needs. This has the additional advantage of helping us reconnect our food and our bodies with nature. Most of us have been impacted to some degree by the unwarranted reassurance of the food industry that they can outdo Mother Nature. In fact, every major chronic illness has now been correlated with factors in the processed food supply. Further, the bending of the food system towards industrial agriculture has a negative impact on diversity and sustainably, leaving us in a more precarious position with regard to our food security. Growing some of our own food is an action on behalf of our own health, that of our families, and of the planet.”
With a doctorate in nutrition, 40 years teaching, promoting local, sustainable and just food Carole brings an outstanding amount of skill and experience to the gardening world. If you are a Sooke Garden Club member, be sure to tune in to hear Carole’s presentation on Wednesday, October 27 th at 7:00pm. New members are always welcome, the Sooke Garden Club has a Facebook page as well as a website sookegardenclub.ca or email us at Sookegc@gmail.com.