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Food for thought - or eating
Is it just me or do most people love the idea of raising their own food? Although I was raised a “city girl,” being able to grow some of my own food gives me a great sense of accomplishment – plus the security of knowing I will never starve. And, it’s cool. I like to walk outside of my house and be able to pick something, anything, that I can add to the meal. I guess Gordie’s passion for gardening has rubbed off on me. Our tomatoes and peppers have always done well in Arizona and in Costa Rica and this year is no exception. But we find that growing food in Costa Rica is especially fun – unlike Arizona, everything grows and grows quickly. You think it - it grows.
We currently have Basil, Asian cilantro and “normal” cilantro in window boxes, plus wild “Tico” cilantro in the yard. There are string beans are already flowering and baby Romaine should be popping out in the next week or two. Unique to here, of course, are our much beloved fruits – the papayas are getting larger everyday and one of the banana trees is ready to harvest. Then there are the fruits peculiar to our North American taste buds like Cas, Marañón and Mamón chino. They too are growing and growing with no assistance from us. Yum.
Is it just me or do most people love the idea of raising their own food? Although I was raised a “city girl,” being able to grow some of my own food gives me a great sense of accomplishment – plus the security of knowing I will never starve. And, it’s cool. I like to walk outside of my house and be able to pick something, anything, that I can add to the meal. I guess Gordie’s passion for gardening has rubbed off on me. Our tomatoes and peppers have always done well in Arizona and in Costa Rica and this year is no exception. But we find that growing food in Costa Rica is especially fun – unlike Arizona, everything grows and grows quickly. You think it - it grows.
We currently have Basil, Asian cilantro and “normal” cilantro in window boxes, plus wild “Tico” cilantro in the yard. There are string beans are already flowering and baby Romaine should be popping out in the next week or two. Unique to here, of course, are our much beloved fruits – the papayas are getting larger everyday and one of the banana trees is ready to harvest. Then there are the fruits peculiar to our North American taste buds like Cas, Marañón and Mamón chino. They too are growing and growing with no assistance from us. Yum.
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