Gaia Blurt-Harvest
Right now, Gaia is throwing food at me from all directions! At my childhood home, the family farm, the blackberries are so prolific, we and the birds are satisfied. The chickens are producing so well that eggs over easy is becoming the most oft repeated breakfast.
In the backyard garden, the corn is teasing me with new tassles. The zuccini is becoming an ubiquitous part of every meal and we are now playing with idea alternate uses form the obscenely large ones: Bread? Target practice with the bow? Drops off a train trestle? A week of crazy heat scared the beans and they no longer seem willing to give up their seeds. Bummer too, I’ve got a real jones for garlic stir-fried green beans! And maybe a spot of cucumber soup to go with them. The cucumbers after all, are pushing the same limits of profligation as the zucs and yellow squash.
The peppers are beginning to blush, the tomatoes too. The potatoes wait patiently in their mounds for us to have any room in our bellys for such starch. Potatoes are patient and will slumber in the basement well into the new year.
Yesterday I ate my first pear off the ground. Ambrosia. Of course, the squirlls have known this for longer than I. I see the evidence in the scattering of half eaten pears. Soon enough the yellow jackets will come to visit the banguet of sweet sippin’ when there are so many pears we can eat/give them away fast enough. Then I will have to don shoes to grab an afternoon snack. So I take a moment to to relish the cool comfort of the grass under my bare feet.
This is Harvest, another step forward in the great turning of things. This is not the time for takeout. It is time to experience the pure sugars of fruits and berries. It is time to savory the earthy undertones hidden in the beans and peppers and squash. This is not the time for heavy sauces and stew, but for the inner chill sprinkled through the juicy flesh of melons.
This is the time of year to remember that the Earth is your partner in this journey of life. You health and well being are directly and forever tied to the vibrancy of soil, the pureness of water and the components of the air.
gaiagirls101 says:
I’ve been camping off and on for the last three weeks and everywhere I’ve gone there has been huckleberry bushes. I’ve definetly had my fill of huckleberry pancakes.
I also know a great recipe for the zuccini. Pan fried in tempura batter, not the healthiest, but I had it all the time when I was younger. One of my favorites!!!
Lee Welles-author says:
Where do you camp? I don’t know of any huckleberries in myneck of the woods; but, huckleberry pancakes sound deeeelish!
gaiagirls101 says:
we went to quite a few places actually. Luby bay on Priest lake. steam boat creek too, i think. we also camped in the trailer park at silverwood (theme park).
i m also very excited for school to start. i am going into 7th grade and it is my first year in junior high. everybody asks me if i’m nervous or scared to start junior high, but honestly i couldn’t be more physched. lockers, better lunch choices, electives, and if you don’t like a teacher then you only have to deal with the for one period.