“Eating is an agricultural act,” as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world—and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world." Michael Pollan Thanks to some wonderful weather this week we have almost all of our garden planted. Here's what we have in the raised bed so far: Transplants: Tomatos (6 different varieties!) Spinach Lettuce Swiss Chard Zucchini Summer Squash Cucumber Watermelon Peppers (4 different varie