Robin Harford That’s what supermarket vegetables are. Picked weeks ago. Shipped thousands of miles. Sitting in plastic, losing nutrients by the hour. And the average household is dropping £80 a week for the privilege.
Meanwhile? Your front garden is growing food that’s actually alive.
Here’s what nobody tells you about wild plants. When you eat them, really eat them…fresh and just-picked…you’re not just consuming nutrients. You’re integrating the landscape into your body. The soil. The rain. The sunlight. All of it becomes you.
Last week, my daughter made soup for the grandkids from nettles she had gathered that morning. Still warm from the sun. One hour from ground to bowl. And she said she tasted the neighbourhood in that soup. The oak trees that shade those nettles. The river that waters them. The whole ecosystem.
That’s not nutrition. That’s alchemy. One form of life becoming another. You becoming part of the place you live.
Your supermarket can’t offer that. No matter how much you pay.
What if your food could actually connect you to where you live? What if eating wasn’t just fuelling your body, but participating in something older and wilder than any supply chain?
It can be. The food’s already there. Growing free. Waiting.
When did you last eat something truly alive?