Monday, August 3, 2009

Food Rich and Grateful

I may not be rolling in money these days, but I'm feeling grateful for the many meals I've made with the ingredients we've wild harvested, grown, traded for, and preserved over the last year. These meals have been possible through the work of many people I know a little and others I know well, and many living in the Portland area.

And, of course, they wouldn't be possible without folks like bees & pollinating wasps, healthy bacteria & fungi, bug eating frogs & birds, millipedes that munch the decaying fir needles, grasses & alfalfa that feed the elk and sheep, our beautiful chickens, the water that flows deep beneath my feet, and SO MANY other powerful and essential folks.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! It's times like these when I feel rich and thankful that we are able to share the abundance with others.