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Eating Healthy IS Becoming all the Rage

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Happy July!

 

A friend of mine recently said to me, “Suzane, you are the only person I know who shows your garden to everyone from your Blackberry.”   I just looked at her and thought, “In this day and age of electronic wizardry, is it so strange that a girl from farming stock on both sides her family is sharing with friends that which what she so deeply loves -gardening!” Of course not!

 

Recently, many people have come up to me and said things like, “I remember when my grandfather had a garden.  When I came home from school, I had so much pleasure eating those berries…” A very healthy way to be!  Why not bring those good old farming days back again?

 

Thankfully, eating healthy IS becoming all the rage now.  We have food shows and a focus on the garden-to-table experience in so many places.  In my beloved New York City, farmers from all over the tri-state area gather to bring their fresh produce to our farmers markets and high-end restaurants.

 

Nowadays, you see along the highways and byways: “No farms, No food.”  So, I figure what is and has always been so important to our country and the world over – a focus on farming – should not be strange at all to share via your Blackberry and computer. Call it a grand re-awakening!  Even the first lady has an organic garden at the White House in support of teaching children what it is like to see something grow from seeds.

 

As I often say, Nature is a total reflection of how we live our lives.  There’s Spring birth, Summer growth, Autumn Harvest, and Winter repose, and then it starts all over again, just like we live our lives in the reincarnation cycle.  Mother Earth is truly our connection to the concept of a spiritual God.

 

From a more down-to-earth perspective, is it not amazing how when we plant those little seeds in our gardens in March, by harvest time there’s a transformation into incredibly delicious food for the table?  And isn’t it great to know exactly where your food came from?

 

This July,  celebrate with Mother Nature.  Maybe take a drive to pick blueberries, or visit a local farm like the Dutch Farms to see what goes on there.  It’s all quite wonderful how those folks live totally aligned with Nature.  Along the way, see if you can find a safe place to dip your toes in a creek.  And bring those binoculars because you never know when a majestic hawk or formation of crows will happen by.

 

If you have a connection to a garden, let me know.  If doable, I’d love to stop by and see your garden.

 

It’s usually not my style to be away from my garden during the summer but . . . I am pleased to be able to sneak in a visit to Portland and Bend, Oregon where I’ll be doing two seminar events. Check my website for details.

 

I love Oregon where there are so many organic farms.  Just maybe in-between connecting with all those organic Oregonians, I’ll get to see some of their beautiful gardens!

 

Happy 4th of July to all”  I’m looking forward to seeing you all in my travels.

 

 

Garden of Love

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Most everyone knows my love for nature and what a significant a role it plays in our lives. I often talk about how the seasons are a reflection of our lives, and quite honestly how the seasons mirror how we live our lives.

Living life as a medium, the issue of death and birth are always in the front of my thoughts and how that theme interplays in my life one way or another on a daily basis.

So while working in my garden the other day and admiring what a beautiful garden it is, I was reminded of just one of the important learning’s of life and nature by gardening Organic.

Organic Gardening is truly different from other gardens that are not organically based. One simple, yet important factor I have learned, which all Organic Gardeners know, is that plants grown from Organic seeds grow at a much slower pace than those that have had been sprayed or have added chemicals that alter the growing process to speed up growth.

Of course I am reminded of this fact when I see other gardens where the tomatoes, for instance, from non-organic seeds, now have more vegetables than my own garden.

What does this love of gardening and nature have to do with our lives connected with our loved ones or dps? Everything because Organic Gardens are like our own grieving process, you can’t speed it up. Everyone has to go through their own process in their own rhythm and time. You can’t force your healing trying to add all those chemicals to urge us and telling us to move on, get over it. You can’t force this process anymore than I can make my garden grow “faster”.

I can only nurture the garden with the best soil, feed it and water it when needed.  Nature, God/Goddess does the rest: Sun, rain, good old earth….and yes love…well I add my share of that. It is this that we all must go through, in our own time and space….a little bit like Organic Gardening.