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Growing your own food!

Today I'm going to talk about growing your own food. A few years ago I moved from the city to a rural zone, outside Santiago. I think that was the beginning of my admiration for nature. 


At that time we arrived in an empty space, we started to plant a lot of native and frutal trees. At first I thought that was going to be an eternal wait to finally see those trees grown or see a fruit, and actually eat from them! The time passed, and I didn't realize when those trees grew that fast. It’s incredible how planting a tree, giving it time and care, can give us so much. We harvest apples, plums, cherries, apricots, peachs, pears, figs, quince even walnuts and almonds! 


That wasn’t all because we built our own orchard, so we also started to harvest lettuce, chard, tomatoes, basil, corn, beans, broccoli, cabbage and so on. All of that was mainly made by my grandfather, I always looked at him and tried to help the most I can. But this particular year, cause the quarantine my grandfather couldn’t come in a long time, so I decided to grow and work on the orchard! Growing my own food has been an amazing experience because now I pay more attention to nature, because I’m doing it myself. Besides that it’s magical to understand nature, connect with the seasons and eat along with it. I think our society needs to reconnect with nature and his times. Also, we should start building edible gardens in the city :)


PD: Tomatoes and cherries are coming!




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  1. Natalia5 de noviembre de 2020 a las 5:12


    It should be a great feeling when you see that it´s time to harvest.
    I love the photo

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  2. Ivette Barrios5 de noviembre de 2020 a las 5:47

    I would love to grow and harvest my own food! Too bad my garden is covered in cement :(

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  3. Francisca A. Padró Queiruga5 de noviembre de 2020 a las 18:12

    I once tried to plant tomatoes, but it is very difficult. I absolutely failed u_u It is really an art

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  4. Alexia5 de noviembre de 2020 a las 18:34

    That sounds great! It looks like is very satisfaying but it takes a lot of time. I would love to do it, but im way too impacient for that :c

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