It was so neat to look down in my garden the other day and see my first few pieces of produce ready to be picked and eaten. The photographer in me had to OF COURSE grab my camera and take a few shots of my PRIZE as documentation of our hard work.
I love the purple bell peppers. I don’t know where you shop but I can tell you that my $1.75 pepper plant was so worth it. At our local grocer it costs about 4.00 for just 3 bell peppers (1 yellow, 1 red & 1 orange). The tomatoes are super expensive too. My youngest two kids get so excited to wake up everyday and see what else is ready to be brought in. It has been a team effort, but my daughter, Addy, gets especially excited to go down each day in hopes of picking new things.
And OH how I LOVE a fresh tomato sandwich. It makes me miss my mom terribly as I remember how she and I would race down to the garden in the summer to see who could get the best tomatoes first. We always had a salt shaker in hand and we would sit there in the earth’s dirt and eat them right in the midst of the garden. It cracks me up how in today’s world we rush to wash everything and get the germs off. Then, legitimately there is a pesticide issue. I am so excited that even if only for the summer, I do not need all the produce cleaner, soap, water, etc. etc. I can just head to pesticide free Krupp Garden, brush off the dirt that they grew in, grab the salt shaker and my little girl and eat as many tomatoes as I want. Ahhhhh….life is good!
If you have not read “A REASONABLE LIFE” by Ferenc Mate’ , I strongly reccommend you go to Amazon.com and check it out. It is definitely an eye opener. More on that later……
by Nichol Krupp
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