Growing Colorado

Last night we ate fresh spinach and arugula salad from our yard. The chili we served contained last year's tomatoes and green peppers. Naturally the pumpkin pie we had for desert had our own produce in it too. Every time we feed ourselves directly from the garden in this manner one can only feel gratitude for gifts from the earth.

A few weeks ago "Growing Colorado"came again to evaluate our front yard space for their own garden. This organization will do Community Supported Agriculture in donors' soil. We had corn planted in our front yard last year, but had spoken of planting less garden this summer. The project will do garden education with children, and provide donor homes with a box of produce every week. The rest they will market, as they did last summer from a different single location. The kids who were here were from Somalia. The girls wore hijab, Muslim head coverings for women. In their country of origin women are the farmers. One of their mothers says, men reign in other settings, but in the growing of food, the women are in charge. GC will use our yard space for summer crops, namely tomatoes and squash, and will look forward to beginning in May.