RECIPROCAL NATURE PROMPT

Vegetables Are the Edible and Nutritious Parts of Plants

And they are beautiful as well

Vegetables are the parts of plants eaten by people and animals. We all know they are healthy to consume. We shouldn’t really have to be told. We, humans, have been eating vegetables supplemented sometimes with animal products since we became human. And a lot longer than that. There would be no animal life on the planet without our sun’s power harnessed by plants’ chlorophyll.

There would be not enough oxygen to breath either.

Vegetables' bright colors attract the hunter-gatherer inside us.

Supplementing this immediate attraction with knowledge of what is poisonous or unpalatable.

I have grown vegetables for most of my life.

I had my own small yet productive garden even as a ten or eleven-year-old boy. Back when I wouldn’t eat any vegetables that weren’t cooked beyond recognition. I continue to enjoy watching them grow.

I love to eat almost any of them now!

I still grow many varieties of vegetables. As much for their colors, shapes, and flowers, as for their tasty nutrition. I grow most in fabric pots so that I can keep them out of the reach of my garden’s resident bunnies and woodchucks. The caterpillars of butterflies still feed at will. I don’t mind.

Written in response to another of Dr. Preeti Singh’s wonderful, Reciprocal Nature Prompts. These are so much fun to write. I encourage anyone who would like to participate to read the instructions in the piece below…

Please read Neera Handa Dr and her love of growing and eating vegetables…

Please read Joyce Nielsen, and read some timeless and practical advice for growing vegetables at home …

Thank you, editors, of Reciprocal, Sahil Patel, Yana Bostongirl, and Dr. Preeti Singh.