Reminds me of a response Wendell Berry gives in his essay "The Pleasures of Eating" (other parts of it are quoted on the sidebar of this blog) from the collection What Are People For?:
Many times, after I have finished a lecture on the decline of American farming and rural life, someone in the audience has asked, "What can city people do?"...
- Participate in food production to the extent that you can. If you have a yard or even just a porch box or a pot in a sunny window, grow something to eat in it. Make a little compost of your kitchen scraps and use it for fertilizer. Only by growing some food for yourself can you become acquainted with the beautiful energy cycle that revolves from soil to seed to flower to fruit to food to offal to decay, and around again. You will be fully responsible for any food that you grow for yourself, and you will know all about it. You will appreciate it fully, having known it all its life.
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I used to do this but I kept screwing it up and throwing away bins of half-composted food and dead worms. Been meaning to get back into it. The best part is that when you have friends over you can say something like, "we've got worms! Wanna see?"
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