For many years, my husband and I had a very large garden. We grew over forty different varieties of culinary and medicinal herbs. We grew apples, pears and grapes. In the early spring, we had peas, kale and spring onions. Through the summers, we had an abundance of lettuce varieties, and heirloom beans, carrots, radishes and tomatoes. In the autumn, we reveled in colorful beets, squashes, spinach and pumpkins.

We lived by the seasons and lovingly tilled, planted, weeded, mulched and watered. We enjoyed the contact with the earth and with living things. We enjoyed the physical work and the harvest of efforts made.

At this stage of life, it is our season to live in the city with a patio full of potted plants. I still am able to find my contact with the earth on a regular basis. One of my favorite things to do is to shop at the farmers’ market.

At the farmers’ market, I have come to know the farmers who are there every week. Their hands touch the earth every day and the gifts they bring from it carry that special regenerative interaction between humans and other living beings. Their vegetables and fruits are vibrant and alive with energy.

Last week, I visited the farmers’ market in Beaverton, Oregon and stopped by one of my favorite booths – that of a small family berry farm. These family farmers pick the berries when they are ripe on the vine, and every basket of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries being the epitome of perfection!
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One of the young women from the family farm glowed, as we chatted about the blueberries that had just come into season and how much we had enjoyed the extra sweet strawberries from the week before that were gone now. I filled my half box with the colors and aromas of the early summer and returned home with the blessings of earth.

© Anne Conrad-Antoville 2014

Anne Conrad-Antoville is CEO of Champion Advocates LLC in Portland, Oregon. She is Co-Founder of CompassionateAging.org. Anne is also President of Working Woman Aging Parents.

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