fotogeeks.com

With the current trend in our household of watching informative food industry related films and documentaries like Fast Food Nation, The World According to Monsanto, King Corn, The Future of Food and Food, Inc. (soon coming to a theatre near you) we decided to support our local economy as much as we can. In a city like St. John’s, or should I say in a province like NL, it’s somewhat difficult to completely turn your back on big food corporations. We still depend on them for the things we can’t find at a local farm such as Lester’s Farm, but we’re certainly saying NO to all the processed food that Sobey’s and Dominion would have you believe is the good, convenient and fast stuff. It’s definitely convenient and fast, but in the long run a dish that’s full of preservatives and sugar is poisonous for you! And even though it seems that that ready-to-serve lasagna costs you less than fresh produce and saves you time in the kitchen, it will cost you more later down the road when you develop diabetes or heart disease. We are lucky enough in Canada to have the kind of health care that we do, but have a look at an average Joe in the US who doesn’t have health care coverage. He saves on food today and he will pay the big bucks later when he develops food related illness. And then again, having health insurance doesn’t guarantee that you will receive support from your insurance company.

So, go to Lester’s Farm or any other farm for that matter, I hear there is another one in the East End. Load up on fresh locally grown food, spend some time in the kitchen with your family to make sure you are your own boss when it comes to what you feed your family and let the big, disgusting food corporations know that they can shove it! And if you’re about to tell me that you can’t cook, have a look at my Food Blog to find inspiration and some easy to follow recipes. After all, if I can do it, so can you. ????????? 10 ??? ?????

Oh, BTW, I almost forgot… Here are a couple of snapshots from Lester’s Farm. We went there yesterday to get some fresh herbs for my very primitive looking herb garden (I really can’t wait to have a proper green house) and some delicious spinach. Yes, that’s Randy giving love and some grass to the horse

Angelika Family Stuff, Misc Rants n Stuff, Wildlife Lester's Farm, local, produce, sorry for the self-promotion

I really want to get out there and take some new pictures, the rain has been holding me back though. Well, the snails are loving the wet weather so I took a picture of one of them.

Andreau No Idea Gastropoda, slim trail, snail

Randy Scenic Photographer, waterfall

Another shot from that evening in CBS a few weeks ago.

Randy Scenic sunset

I was out and about yesterday doing some errands and decided to go for a little drive.  This little drive ended up taking me to Heart’s Content following the Sun.  On the way home through Whiteway I got a few shots as the Sun was driving away the clouds.

Bev Scenic

As sad as it might sound, as soon as things start to spring to life I feel like shutting the door closed and not coming out until my allergy medicine is able to create a protective barrier against my biggest enemy: the blooming, pollinating nature. That does in fact sound very depressing, but such has been my life for the past 25 years. But I’m working on it, or should I say, the drugs are and I’m feeling better now. We have managed to go for a walk before my allergy went out of control, though.

We went to Bowring Park (surprise, surprise) and we actually got on a trail there, which I didn’t even know existed. Whenever we do go anywhere these days, Dylan gets to take his new bike, to get accustomed to riding it. So far he’s never been on a “real” bike ride so we’re slowly prepping him for one when the three of us would jump on our bikes. I see kids his age all over the streets, on bikes or on foot wandering around without adult supervision and it blows my mind how any thinking adult would let their kids do that. Maybe I’m overprotective or maybe I believe in a little bit more guidance than all those other people. Which brings me to my point in this post. Why is giving your child a little push when he needs it considered a sign of weakness in the child? They all need a little push once in a while, otherwise they will wander off the path and fall off the cliff, because they still don’t know the things that we do.

You can view all the pictures from this excursion here.

Angelika Family Stuff, Misc Rants n Stuff, People bike, Bowring Park, I hate firefox and what it does to my pictures, walk