Because folks want predictably uniform apples at a certain price and year-round. We need to move away from that. I know it doesn't feel great when you crave green grapes in the winter and the only ones available are from Peru. Because: season. (BTW, when I visited my friend in Truro, I couldn't believe how many forgotten apple trees loaded with apples lined the roads. That was probably October.)
Because folks want predictably uniform apples at a certain price and year-round. We need to move away from that. I know it doesn't feel great when you crave green grapes in the winter and the only ones available are from Peru. Because: season. (BTW, when I visited my friend in Truro, I couldn't believe how many forgotten apple trees loaded with apples lined the roads. That was probably October.)
Of course folks, along with their civilization, will be having to adjust their expectations to meet reality-- that thing that JHK often talks about hereon.
We're only now finally finishing the butternut squash that I grew and picked in September. We still have garlic in the crisper picked in late July.
And then there's canning, salting, fermenting, drying and pickling, etc.. -- knowledge and skills many of us lost to a drift over time into a kind of unreality.
Because folks want predictably uniform apples at a certain price and year-round. We need to move away from that. I know it doesn't feel great when you crave green grapes in the winter and the only ones available are from Peru. Because: season. (BTW, when I visited my friend in Truro, I couldn't believe how many forgotten apple trees loaded with apples lined the roads. That was probably October.)
Of course folks, along with their civilization, will be having to adjust their expectations to meet reality-- that thing that JHK often talks about hereon.
We're only now finally finishing the butternut squash that I grew and picked in September. We still have garlic in the crisper picked in late July.
And then there's canning, salting, fermenting, drying and pickling, etc.. -- knowledge and skills many of us lost to a drift over time into a kind of unreality.