The Awakening

Yesterday after watching my DVRed Dancing with the Stars (Go Kelley Osborne!), I stumbled across a very informative piece on the weather channel about locally grown foods. The minute I began to watch this something deep inside of me started to awaken. Inside my head I could I hear me saying “Yes this is exactly what I should be doing”, and that was accompanied with a goofy dance (but lets just stick to the awakening part for right now). The piece on the Weather Channel was about a lady and her family in Virginia who decided that they would only eat locally grown organic foods for a year and see whether they could sustain it. Their mission was really to see if it was possible to live off their as well as local grown farmers produce without being bullied by big corporation made foods in supermarkets in which they were successful.

For me the message behind this is to really and truly begin to “own my food”. I want my family to eat clean, pure, untainted foods. I feel fed up of being at the mercy of large corporations who destroy the food we eat by pumping it with all kinds of chemical based product in order to make it look better, and last longer. My family eats organic foods and has been doing so for a while. Today when I was making dinner I found that the Zucchini, Tomatoes, Avocado and Bell Pepper (all organic) were from Mexico. After watching this show and Food Inc I really want to support my local organic farmers, who produce high quality uncompromised foods. My husband and I want to support the local farmers who are trying so hard to grow good food. I don’t want my child to grow up in a world where all of the food industry is running on food made by large corporations who just want to make profit and sacrifice/compromise the heath of the nation. If we don t support local farms then over time they will disappear and we will be left at the mercy of god knows who, but I do know this; that person/group of people will not give a dime about our health.

To sum it up, as of tomorrow I will be trying to find local farmers markets to buy our produce from. I know that there is a Farmers Market in Mckinney, TX and Frisco, TX.
Let the games begin…