the best feedback from my radio interview
Spoke to my wife after the radio interview. Turns out our oldest got bored listening to dad on the radio...
So he went outside to dig in the garden!
Guess we're doing something right.
Friday, August 1, 2008
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I've lately been thinking about our daughter's understanding of food sources. She's three, and already knows empirically that tomatoes "come from the garden" and that cherries "come from the farmer market." Milk comes "from the grocery store." And, chicken nuggets "come from Chick-Fil-A" (I just quizzed her on this).
When I was growing up, some of my closest friends, who were my parents' friends' kids, lived in the country. They raised a few dozen chickens, and our summer days were spent picking pears, gathering eggs, shucking corn, and climbing trees. This wasn't some special field trip or awareness-raising exercise - it was time hanging out with friends in their neighborhood. My neighborhood was very different - there were curbs and in-ground pools, for one thing, and no cows or horses within miles.
I want my daughter to experience farm and rural life as "organically" as possible, and to do that, I'll know I'll have to make and keep in touch with friends outside my own neighborhood and social bubble, just like my own parents did.
Frankly, it's one reason I prefer living in Rock Hill rather than Charlotte. I like being able to often witness things like sunflowers and horses close to home (though I'm not cut out for pure-tee country life myself) and I still get all the hipster nightlife I can handle (though I can't walk to it, neither can most Charlotteans). Until recently, one of our neighbors had two goats - and we live darn close to the center of town. I suspect zoning and formal ordinances would *never* allow such a thing in most areas of Charlotte.
This has little to do directly with your radio interview, except that it got me once again considering what my daughter's exposure to the outdoors will be, which got me thinking about nature as the origin of food - which led to this desultory post.
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