Food Paradigm Shift...

Paradigm shift. Systems change. However you label it, it can be daunting. We are so used to our NORMALITY however destructive it may be. I have been intimidated to take the big step to 'greenify' and naturalize my home and food, even with all I know about why it is the way to go. It was part of a new year objective and I am failing and succeeding all at the same time, such is the life in TRAINING. A wise man often tells me "Try = Fail, Just DO" and in a similar idea is the training versus trying that is taught in the Restore book Journey to Freedom. I humbly admit that I am in training on this Sage Endeavor as I have named it. Through my own successes and failures and culinary nutrition I hope to encourage and teach along the way- all through food!

Shifting the perspective of normal- food should be purchased in a package, at a well lit store, with less than passionate employees. Said food can be consumed within an unnatural length of time because we have become so used to chemically enhanced shelf stabilization.
My food purchases at the store and on the run are not 100% organic, whole or home grown yet but that is my goal and everyday I am in training to get there.

The fuel that keeps me going forward are intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. The more I share about my journey the more I learn about the world of Hyper Local Food and Slow Food movements, Urban Homesteading and Self Sufficiency. The learning and growing and applying the knowledge, having small victories like the home made laundry soap and raspberry jam from a local farm are some intrinsic motivators. But then, the passion and excitement grows with a conversation with a friend who is also interested and learning about turning her whole front yard into food!
This, my friends, is independance! In our normal yet dibilitating culture, let's shift the paradigm, change the system! Starting with empowering ourselves!