Food is a foundational part of life, and not only is it required regularly, but it is one of the most culturally connecting and enjoyable parts of life.
So many memories of family meals, holiday, party feasts, and comfort foods play a huge role in people's lives.
Here in The Garden of Eden, we also love food! It is a foundational part of what we do daily. Yes we feed thousands of free meals to people, but we also love to feast in our community together regularly.
We make a feast almost every day, some more elaborate than others. Yet we consistently have an abundance of food, and that food is always sustainable.
Today, we have prepared yet another feast, which is pretty standard around here! All the ingredients are either grown, harvested, traded for, or donated. Nothing was purchased from a store or even an outdoor market.
We're feasting on mass quantities of mashed potatoes--homemade of course! We make them extra creamy and put lots of garlic chives on them!
We also have many different types of vegetables including fresh mushrooms sautéed in coconut oil. We very commonly eat eggs for many meals as they are a super abundant, sustainable, and nutritious food source for us. We also always have big salads with raw fresh cut veggies of many kinds.
We even have stuff like parmesan cheese or hot sauce, but again it is all traded for, harvested, or donated. We are committed to only utilizing what we can acquire at the highest sustainable standards.
We of course also cook everything in our outdoor kitchen on handmade earthen rocket stoves using salvaged trash wood. These are just some of the many ways we are able to live at a negative zero carbon footprint! Here are links to how we build the stoves: part 1 ~ part 2 ~ part 3, and here's a link to simultaneous live didgeridoo-ing & rocket stove egg cooking!
If you would like to know more about our unique and super sustainable connection to our food cycle, please check out our previous post here.
