Beautiful Veggies
September 5, 2009 | Posted by admin 
Aren’t they beautiful? That’s the only words for these fresh veggies.
Yesterday, after months of writing and editing, writing and editing … I allowed myself some social time. A meal with some friends and then a visit with one of my dearest friends who was visiting from out of town. It felt wonderful. It was as if I was a desert, parched and cracked. I had written all the creativity out of me.
And then after some socialization – human, social contact! – all of the story ideas flooded back. It was great. One of my favorite stories has to do with this picture.
I dropped by the agency I used to work at to have lunch with some former co-workers and there were dozens of bags of veggies being loaded from a truck into the elevator.
What’s this? I asked.
A pilot project, they answered. Refugee families get a bag of veggies (the picture is only one THIRD of the bag) delivered to the agency for only ten dollars. Wowwee. They were beautiful.
The Good Food Project offers a convenient way for families to buy local food. And, it’s healthy!
It was a six-week project for the summer. If you’re not low income, the price is more (obviously)but what a great idea. Just seeing the fresh veggies made me want to eat healthy forever (or close to it).
I’m off to eat them now …
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10 Comments »
They are indeed beautiful and no doubt delicious. I'm glad programs like that exist. Around this valley some folks coordinated picking unwanted fruit off of (hundreds of) trees for distribution to poor families and homeless people.
So glad you had a bit of respite from your creativity cage!
Great project! Real food for real people. What a concept.
Lydia – that's a great idea too .. I can't imagine how much fruit would be saved by a program like that.
Thanks Lin ! If you have a blog too, I'd like to drop by sometime.
good to hear from you Roxanne. What a great idea. this time of year is abundant in fresh veggies. yum so delicious and healthy
Nice to find you hear, glad the writing is going well, and YES, the veggies are beautyful and delicious.
Hugs.
Interesting to see a purple aubergine – i thought they were mostly white and referred to as Egg Plants abroad
you could make a wicked curry with these
Happy celebration, Roxanne!
I think that's excellent. I shall look more into this program at some point.
bounty of summer… love the taste of fresh food…
and even more with the social conscience… thanks for this post…
Suki – the eggplant was to die for. seriously. I grilled it and ate it in a traditional filipino way with rice and one of our sauces!
Lynn – nice to hear from you too!
DFTP – yes the curry idea appealed to me too. But, too much work for my lackadaisal cooking ability. Do you actually call them aubergines?
Thanks Michael – and Samurai, you would like it – social justice and all.
Nice to hear from you Jon.
It is nice to hear from ALL of you – ah, I've missed blogging. I have a survey coming up soon.