According to Michael Pollan, we should involve ourselves in the communal web of food production as intricately as we can:
“This food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing, but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on the other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.”
This community involves the farmers growing and laboring, the plants drinking in the sunshine and luxuriating in nutrients, the animals that have contributed to the soil or are part of the kind cycle, all the way to the person cooking and inviting loved ones to the table.
Pollan also says:
“To reclaim this much control over one’s food, to take it back from industry and science, is no small thing; indeed, in our time cooking from scratch and growing any of our own food qualify as subversive acts.”
Go Geauga Family Farms!! I am so proud to join your community web, where you “produce healthy foods, from healthy soils, for healthy people.”
Kohlrabi Slaw Recipe (Adapted from Food Network Magazine and changed Laura-style):
Peel 3 kohlrabis and cut into matchsticks. Whisk the juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill (Or 1 TB dry), 1/2 clove minced garlic, 1 teaspoon dijon mustard, and salt and pepper in a bowl. Whisk in 3 tablespoons olive oil. Toss with the kohlrabi and add more salt and pepper to taste.
Note: FN's recipe calls for 1 kohlrabi and 1/4 head shredded cabbage. I used 3 kohlrabi instead because that's what I had and it was delicious!
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