Oh, I can read too!

While I was posting I forgot to mention a great read. This weekend I was so incredibly caught up in FIELD DAYS, by Jonah Raskin. The book is about local organic farming, so local that I have been in some of the shops mentioned and know some of the people described.

I also learned the word, "locavore," meaning one who eats locally grown produce. I intend to become one.

Jonah Raskin is a professor at Sonoma State University, my alma mater, who spent a year working alongside Mexican laborers on one small farm nearby that specializes in flowers and organic produce. 

For me, this book was a page turner. As our world becomes more polluted, as I continue to deal with my own cancer, I am becoming more and more interested and concerned about my own food sources. I have been writing regularly about the Square Foot Garden project I began this spring. That's just one piece of how I'm working to change my diet into healthier food grown without added chemicals and thriving under our own sun.