Extraordinary abundance
Aug. 21st, 2011 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dryadgrlThere is a distinct lack of various resources here. And yet...
But there is also an incredible richness to this land and the people here. For one thing, reaching out the car window to pick blackberries while driving is luxurious experience. Most places I've been this week have food growing for the taking.
Blackberries and plum trees and and wild greens and oregon grape and things growing and growing. There's so much food it's hard to process it all (and process it takes a lot of resources). F and C brought home about 10 gallons of blackberries in the last few days and a few gallons of plums so there have been multiple blackberry pies and plum sauce and plum sorbet and smoothies and yumminess. There are animals and chickens for the asking so we have lots of eggs and food that can be traded and shared.
Being a good cook is a valuable skill here because there's no place to go out and eat (save the burrito truck in town which of course costs money). So we have lots of staples and a strong need to make things from scratch. We had pizza last night with veggies from H's garden and cheese from a neighbor's goat. Yummy, delightful things. I'm eating better here than I ever do in the city in some ways because everything is homemade.
And people are really helpful. There's a lot of sharing and offering and I find myself offering our food to people who are here at meals everyday and arranging to make communal meals with other folks in the house. It's all bring your own and what we don't have we make up for in other ways. We took lunch to the workers at the house yesterday of veggies and hummus, and fruit and bread.
And people know you and your situation. There's a water issue here so people bring water when they come, they know it's
what needs to happen. It's a beautiful and brilliant community and I'm really enjoying delving into it a little.
There are ways in which this abundances so out does anything I've ever need in a city or a city community. Most people just don't share on this level and I'm starting to wonder if it's the necessity of the interdependence that makes people do it.
But there is also an incredible richness to this land and the people here. For one thing, reaching out the car window to pick blackberries while driving is luxurious experience. Most places I've been this week have food growing for the taking.
Blackberries and plum trees and and wild greens and oregon grape and things growing and growing. There's so much food it's hard to process it all (and process it takes a lot of resources). F and C brought home about 10 gallons of blackberries in the last few days and a few gallons of plums so there have been multiple blackberry pies and plum sauce and plum sorbet and smoothies and yumminess. There are animals and chickens for the asking so we have lots of eggs and food that can be traded and shared.
Being a good cook is a valuable skill here because there's no place to go out and eat (save the burrito truck in town which of course costs money). So we have lots of staples and a strong need to make things from scratch. We had pizza last night with veggies from H's garden and cheese from a neighbor's goat. Yummy, delightful things. I'm eating better here than I ever do in the city in some ways because everything is homemade.
And people are really helpful. There's a lot of sharing and offering and I find myself offering our food to people who are here at meals everyday and arranging to make communal meals with other folks in the house. It's all bring your own and what we don't have we make up for in other ways. We took lunch to the workers at the house yesterday of veggies and hummus, and fruit and bread.
And people know you and your situation. There's a water issue here so people bring water when they come, they know it's
what needs to happen. It's a beautiful and brilliant community and I'm really enjoying delving into it a little.
There are ways in which this abundances so out does anything I've ever need in a city or a city community. Most people just don't share on this level and I'm starting to wonder if it's the necessity of the interdependence that makes people do it.
