Personal Strawberry Fields and other minutiae

Personal Strawberry Field
Originally uploaded by Tera in the Isles

I wonder what food would be like if they had never started messing with it. Tomatoes and strawberries left at their natural sizes. Some Italian friends of mine laughed and laughed when they saw the size of the strawberries here. No strawberry has ever tasted as sweet as the few I grew myself one brief season in 1999. Picked up two lil plants in Gruene and put them out on my balcony. I picked up some strawberry and tomatoe plants the other day. They are going to be tiny but so tasty.

I wish all varieties of food were grown we only stick to a small handful of varieties. Heirloom seed places give you an idea of what could have been out there in grocery stores and what was out there on carts and open markets. Been reading Michael Pollan's in Defense of Food. It's extremely hard now to even look at processed foods and I want so badly to be able to grow all my own veggies.

Save the Texas Prairie Chicken: Turns out crazy ants or the Raspberry ant likes to eat their eggs. UGH! Poor Attwater's Prairie Chickens they just can't get a break. They've been decreasing in numbers for years. Not even Mike Nesmith could help them for long.

Starting this Fall all The Nez Hats sold here will come with a Save the Texas Prairie Chicken button and $10 of every hat sold between September and January donated to the Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken program.