Today's Harvest
Mint, Tomato and green chilly from the "Backyard Farm".
The tomato plants, which are my source of primary interest mainly because of their consistent and rapid turnover, have been yielding roughly 2 ripe tomatoes(about the size of a golf ball) a day. This is clearly not enough to sustain the hearth which deals on a regular basis with tomato intensive recipes like Rasam. So I end up buying tomatoes from the market which dampens the joy and satisfaction of home-gardening. It's a stark reminder of how much goes into growing the food consumed in every single meal.
I recently saw an episode on the food channel where they mentioned that eating fried grasshoppers and other crustacean insects required about 1/1000th the amount of water as compared to growing veggies. That really threw the spanner in the works for I have always prided myself on being a sort of minimalist by virtue of my vegetarianism. Can I preach the veg-life to meat eaters if I myself am averse to the even better alternative?
posted by Aarthi at 9:53 AM
1 Comments:
Of course that goes with out saying that one must hit the road to sustain the home. Intentisve farming can help you with better supplies though would not suffice the most needs.
There are other tomato intensive home food like chutney, pacchadi which may any how require a good quantity of tomato.
Though yield per day can be proverbial are expressive intelligence predominate averages.
Not a substitute for taste but is indelible for alternatives.
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