I believe in the food SOURCE

I feel best when I get to shake the hand of a person who grew or raised my food.

I joke, sometimes, that a farmers market is "my spa."

I am not much of a real spa person (I get bored easily and I do not like to sit for a long time😀). But when I am at a farmers market, I feel both relaxed and energized. I try to visit a farmers market or stand every weekend I have available. While I am there, mainly, to shop for my actual food, I am also there to absorb the vibration and the energy I feel.

I love talking to farmers, growers, and ranchers. Hearing the passion behind what they do, makes me genuinely happy. When I cook the food I bought at a farmers market, I can usually picture the person behind that food. It makes me grateful to think about the humans behind the food I eat. And, when I do eat the food, I feel well. As in, well taken care of.

It goes without saying that local food grown with integrity has a much larger chance of retaining the nutrients and, yet, it is not really the facts/ science behind this but rather the actual energy that I feel that makes the difference to me.

Where I currently reside (USA) there is no actual shortage of food. Instead, there seems to be a shortage of good energy behind food. People eat in a rush often. "Car meals" are common. If I ate the food that was raised with love in a rush, I would feel I was offending the person who had raised/ grown it.

I do my best to not rush when I eat a meal. I will try to have a separate post on what I actually eat if I am truly hungry and truly am in a rush - for now, I will state that it is never the food I procured from a farmer or a rancher.

Eating food raised locally with integrity calls for slow, mindful eating to me. I do not necessarily cook slowly (the opposite is true: I usually cook quickly as I do my best to not overcook anything in order to preserve the nutrients) but I try to eat slowly. Doing so makes my heart happy. And, THAT, after all is what this is about.