Читать книгу Down to the River and Up to the Trees: Discover the hidden nature on your doorstep - Sue Belfrage - Страница 12

Few things taste as delicious as blackberries picked straight from the hedgerow or an apple plucked from the tree. Likewise, it can be hugely rewarding to grow your own food or forage for your dinner.

If you do decide to go foraging, please make sure you have expert advice about whatever it is that you choose to gather. The consequences of eating that tasty-looking mushroom (which turns out to be poisonous) or the pip of a plump yew berry, for instance, are just too dire to contemplate.

Whether or not you do go and pick your own, it’s good to be aware of that sense of disconnection that can sometimes exist between the food on our plates and its origins in nature. Next time you have a meal, why not try the following:

Take a good look at the food in front of you. What are the basic ingredients?

What plants and/or animals did those ingredients come from?

Can you make a conscious connection between your meal and the various elements in it – animal, mineral and vegetable?

In what ways might those elements be nourishing you? How might they be feeding the ways in which you see the world, as well as the cells in your body?