I got to find my green thumb!!

These are my Mom's tomato plants. She started them with seeds inside, I need to do the same. I am going to go and get the things I need and start them this week. Grow them and then plant them outside at the end of May. I am not sure exactly what I want yet. I need to draw it out and figure out what kind of veggies we will eat. I am really excited about growing our own food. We watched 'Food Inc.' last night. It is pretty scary what we don't know about our food. I think that we (James and I) need to be more conscious of what we are eating. We are already pretty good but we eat a lot of processed stuff. He wants to start running and doing yoga, once he starts that he will eat more and need better, whole foods. We need to buy local and organic. He is going to go in on a half cow with some guys from work. He eats a lot of meat, which is fine, but he needs to make sure it is good meat.

Happy Earth Day!!

This is my rant from Tumblr. I thought it was a pretty good rant, so posted it here. Remember to Recycle, folks!!

I took this picture of one of the flowers in my garden. I am going to plant a vegetable/fruit garden in May. Trying to do my part. I watched ‘Food Inc.’ last night(well half of it) on PBS’ POV. I have been dying to see it. The part that I saw was about genetically modified seeds and lawsuits between Monsanto and farmers. It is pretty crazy how much we don’t know about the food we eat. I have always been on/off again vegetarian, eating meat is convenient. My family and my boyfriends family are all big meat eaters. They have all known me during my veggie phases, but it is still an effort. Day to day I never ate meat, except at restaurants. I have never felt very confident cooking meat. Since I moved in with my meat-loving boyfriend I have been experimenting with cooking meat. I still believe that I shouldn’t be eating meat. But, if I am going to eat meat then I want the best and I want to know where it comes from. It is scary when you look at the piece of beef on your plate and imagine its journey from “farm” to your plate. We need to be realistic about our food and stop pretending that everything is how we think it is or how we have grown up knowing it is. It’s not! Modern day farms are almost non-existent and steadily on the decline. People of my generation are living in cities, relying on big business to supply them their food. We need to take back the soil! If you want to live green then move to where it is green!

Now, keep in mind that this is my opinion on the morning of Earth Day, after watching ‘Food Inc.’, I have moved out of the city but I am not going to live on a farm. It would be nice to have more property and maybe raise something. But that isn’t really the plan just yet. Time will tell. But I do think that with everyday I am becoming more and more of an advocate.

BUT, most importantly, do what you can do. Wherever you are. Even if you do one ‘green’ thing a day at the end of the year you have done 365! That is a lot! We are all capable.

Okay, rant done!!