We ♥ Farmers

And really, who doesn't? The people who grow our food deserve much more appreciation than they get. Especially when they give us that food for free.

My car looked like a moving farm as I left the Felton farmer's market right at closing time. Filling the seats and trunk were bags of salad mix, arugula, parsley, chives, basil, dill, heirloom tomatoes, a variety of melons, plums, and pear-apples, as well as a couple of samosas that didn't survive the trip home (*burp*). Normally this sort of outing would cost lotsalotsalotsa money. But it was all free. No, I didn't rob the farmer's market. It was all donated. 20+ pounds of organic produce were so very generously donated by Happy Boy farms and Kashiwase farms to the SLV Animal Rights Club. Sure, I realized once I got home that I had got waaaay too much stuff, but hey, I wasn't about to say no to some free mini cantaloupes.

If you were at the meeting, you know that we put very good use to all these farm-fresh goodies. What we couldn't eat, we gave away, as people left the meeting with their pockets full of not-quite-ripe plums and melons in the crook of their elbows. Heck, we even had to walk around the school with huge bowls of salad piled high with heirloom tomatoes begging students and faculty members to chow down on some of mother nature's best products. Luckily, almost nothing went to waste.

In a time when only 1 out of 10 high school students eats anywhere close to the reccommended intake of fruits and vegetables, we encourage everyone to go down to the farmer's market or natural-food stores and support your local farmers. Especially the generous, organic, student-loving ones from Happy Boy and Kashiwase.