24/11/2025
Looking at the vegetables I harvested from our own organic vegetable garden this week, I started reflecting on the following...
How much the vegetables we buy in the shops differ in size shape and taste than the one's grown organically. I have actually started loving food again, eversince I started planting my own vegetables! When is the last time you tasted a raw carrot bought at your nearest shop? They don't even taste like carrots anymore...
I have also started taking note about which fruits and vegetables are successfully grown in our various South African climates and what is available in which season... changing our family's eating habits to seasonal and proportionate to what is actually avaiable! I believe nature provides what we need I every season as well as how much we need.
I am also shocked at how many fruits and vegetables simply cannot grow without being sprayed with loads of pesticides and chemicals! Strawberries, blueberries, cabbages, cauliflowers and Broccoli are incredibly pest prone, which means - even after washing you vegetables, what are you really ingesting? I'm not saying do not eat these fruits and vegetables at all, because I mean... who doesn't love a good Cauliflower and broccoli in cheese sauce! We, as a family, have just decided to limit our intake.
And then lastly, eggs... Store bought eggs have wattery whites and very yellow yolks. My pasture raised eggs, collected fresh daily, have the most amazing orange/dark yellow yolks. Our own eggs are also just more tasty! I always though I was the only person who go a little nauseous when eating store bought eggs, I really just thought eggs are not for me and that maybe I'm a bit full of nonsense... that is until I ate eggs, laid by chickens who eat real food and live real lives!
Please don't shoot the messenger, I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am simply reflecting on what I've seen and learned in my own garden/homestead, so far... is there anything interesting or odd you have noticed? Let's chat!
