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| Jenny and I in Glencoe Station |
Yesterday I made a salad from our own garden's ingredients. Well, I added store bought tomatoes and salad dressing but the beet greens, tiny kale leaves and pak choi leaves were from our own organically grown veggie garden. We've been eating sugar snap peas for a week or two now also.
I used to always say that we'd crossed the equator before arriving at our friend's house in Glencoe Station for this friend of ours is an amazing gardener. She has a greenhouse now and grows immense basil plants, tomatoes and a huge variety of other vegetables. It takes a love of fresh veggies and lots of dedication to grow food in Cape Breton. It is much easier to grow veggies where I now live for it is warmer.
Perseverance furthers though, and I've even read that some folks grow fresh veggies up North in greenhouses. It is hard to resist growing a few vegetables or flowers. Do you garden? Or perhaps you just enjoy going to a farmer's market and buying very fresh veggies or flowers? You'll know what I mean then. It is part of the joy of this season, getting in touch with nature.
In a way, gardening is like a daily yoga practice. Every day you attend to something new. One day you water, the next weed, the next transplant, the next harvest. In yoga asana practice one day you do inversions, the next standing poses, the next sitting poses, the next therapeutic supported poses. Each day is a new journey, both in the garden and on the mat.
Namaste.
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