Groceries from the Garden

I absolutely do not believe in making work out of simplifying, nor do I think simplicity should cost a fortune, but . . . I do spend the extra money for heirloom seeds. I don't mind hybrids, so much, except often the harvested seeds don't produce, or may produce a recessive quality. I planted hybrid okra one year. It was supposed to be "dwarf" for easy picking. I, literally, had to reach over my head to pick. I'm over 5'7", hardly petite. I like to know what I'm planting and what I can expect at harvest. I hope the heirloom seed folks keep harvesting and selling, because sometimes I actually harvest seeds, and sometimes I gather husks. I'm still working on that . . . I'm not saying hybrids are all bad, but I for sure do not want to consume genetically modified veggies. I like my veggies. A sliced cucumber sprinkled with dill is a great lunch and I have decided this year that tomato sandwiches are summertime comfort food. You haven't really lived until you have fresh tomato wedges or slices with scrambled eggs from free range hens. It's deliriously delicious. I have fond memories of my Grandpa making scrambled eggs with tomatoes when I was little, so I'm sure the nostalgia makes it all the more enjoyable.
Now, I do have a blog that deals with politics and current issues, and this isn't it, but I have to overlap a bit and address Big Business playing in our food. From the time we got out of the high chair, weren't we all taught not to play with our food? Well, apparently the guys at Monsanto, and some other labs weren't listening. It's nearly impossible to even find heirloom corn, due to cross pollination from GMO fields, and to be honest, it's just more money for everyone, if the herbicide, pesticide, and special DNA additives all work together. That's very hard on the honey bees, too. Their systems cannot process all that any better than ours can. I actually read about scorpion DNA added to cabbage to make it's own pesticide against caterpillars. Maybe I'm nit-picking here, but I don't think I want to consume that cabbage! Oh, but that's not all. Somewhere in another laboratory, the scientists are working on producing synthetic meat. I've already dubbed that "smeat" and I want no part of it. Our bodies weren't created to process this stuff in place of actual nutrition. So, with that being said, I heartily recommend, even if you're not homesteading, to plant something edible in the yard, in a window box, in a flower pot. Plant something that doesn't have it's own digestive system. Isn't that strange? GMO veggies have animal DNA, but they are working on meat that doesn't come from animals. Another goal of my homesteading, is to just be needing paper products from the grocery store very soon.