Breakfast: Our hen’s eggs (pay for themselves with surplus sales) with wild lambsquarters (free) on the side, raw. Black pepper to activate. Coffee (.50) worth of grounds.
Lunch: Wild black raspberries (free), wild blueberries from the freezer (picked at a friend’s farm as a prize for volunteering for the Haw) raw egg, keyhole garden kale (about .05 worth of Johnny’s seeds), store-bought waldorf-based yogurt ($2) from the farm where my brother went to school, and banana (.15) smoothies. Fed the family.
Drink: Cold catnip tea: muscle relaxant. Catnip (free), honey (.25 worth).
Planted more zinnias, nasturtiums, fall squash. Built bamboo walls on two sides of garden. “Weeded” a bit more. Put up motherwort to dry for tea.
Dinner plan: egg and kale omelette (our eggs, our kale) with garlic (wild) and cream cheese (.25)
That’s a grand total of $3.15 for food today and I feel splendid!
Making a living is about making a life, supporting life, not making a killing or killing the land or our bodies. Work with a place, and it will work with you. But that’s easy to say on Georgeville series soil. This land pours forth nutrition. Good soil, that’s the key. It’s all about the dirt we stand on. (Thanks, Bill Dow.)