Garden of Eden? Or Garden of Needin'?

We've had such amazing weather this year! Many warm days and the sun shows up all the time while the rain holds back. Very out of the ordinary for the coast of Oregon, where we measure our rainfall in FEET insead of inches!!

So what have we been doing? Cleaning up our garden area. We get a tremendous amount of produce out of our little plot and we really enjoy it. In fact we dug up a bunch of carrots last Friday that had wintered over. Just look at all that carrot yumminess! We have been juicing them and they have the most mellow flavor. We even found the King Daddy of carrots out there! Gardens are a great addition to your nutrition!

But we just suppliment our meals with our garden produce. Once in a while we have a meal that's maybe 95% from the garden. We pat ourselves on the back and sing 'Farmer,Farmer' (from the 'Seed's, a rock group from the 60's) (You had to be there).

But really, if we had to eat every meal out of that garden we would be in a world of hurt.

Now I have stood out there and gorged on fresh sweet peas, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries and blueberries on a summer day. We've had fantastic green salads and sweet corn on the cob as well as thick slices of tomato and cucumber. But 3 meals a day? Vegetables and fruits run right through you like a 50 yard dash, leaving you empty and craving Big Mac's. And what would you eat in the winter?

And what if you had nuthin' to eat but you had all these seeds? You'd still have to wait for them to grow and ripen. That means we'd eat lots of radishes for a long time before the other stuff was ready.

This concerns me.

On the other ear, if you have plenty of meat, beans, and grains in your food storage, the garden would enhance any meal you made. And it would save your life while you waited for those little green tendrils to shoot forth from the earth. (Whilst battling slugs, birds, moles, flood, wind, salt air, lack of heat, weeds, crop failures, etc)

That's why I am on the Shelf Reliance Q. It's a monthly shipment of my favorite and most necessary foods, delivered right to my door and within my monthly budget. It's beginning to really add up! And I am getting pretty spoiled by actually using it (SO super convenient! Prewashed and chopped veggies are the best!) and rotating my foods.

So I'm thinkin' my garden of eatin' will not leave us beaten or needin' & as long as we keep seedin' it will be like Eden. And with THRIVE foods in our cupboard, we will be succeedin'! You best be believin'!