GREAT VEGGIE EATS
MY FOOD PROFILE
"At our house, growing up, my father always had a vegetable garden. He also shared a plot of land with a friend of his and they would grow all types of vegetables. I use to love the radish and cherry tomatoes and would always say "Dad grows these just for me." At times my mom would get flustered when Dad had gone out to the garden then brought in large loads of veggies that he deposited on the kitchen counter ready for cleaning. My mother would create great meals fresh from the garden. On occasion my Dad would also make what he would call - Succotash - this wonderful mix of sauteed fresh veggies (squash, tomatoes, onions, okra, zucchini, beans, etc.). I absolutely loved it and was always fascinated by the idea of growing foods from seeds and how they eventually made their way to the dinner table.
As I grew older I began to cook. I loved cooking with veggies - my favorite food group - and felt proud when my Dad would comment in anticipation of my concoction, "...another one of Karen's creations!"
In honor of my Dad and him instilling in me such a love for veggies, I have created Great Veggie Eats, which is my way of providing information on wonderful foods, great recipes and sustainable healthy living...and our right as human beings on God's planet to have access to good healthy organic nutritious life sustaining food."
- Karen L. Jones
ORGANIC FOODS & GARDENING
"The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard."
— Joel Salatin
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
— Wendell Berry
PLANTS & VEGETABLES
“Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.”
― Maria Rodale, Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
“If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.”
― Maria Rodale, Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe