That Anne Johnson at The Gods Are Bored is one smart cookie. Her Lughnasadh post today brought up a most excellent point:

So, if I may be so bold as to predict why Green Corn and Lughnasahd evolved into such revelry-filled events, it's because you can't always count on a harvest, and when you get a good one, you are as relieved as all bloody git-out.

I come from a long line of hillbilly farmers, and they were a fretful bunch indeed until they got the hay made and the apples picked.

The point of this rambling? We're a nation that takes harvests for granted in an era when we should be fretting. Those amber waves of grain may be baked before they leave the field. And the corn'll be as high as a jackrabbit's eye.

If we keep on hacking down forests and pumping CO2 into the air, a Lughnasahd may arrive with no barley.

Are we smart enough to keep that from happening?

Are we indeed. What do you think? Have you seen An Inconvenient Truth yet?

Today, in Lionette's Market, the neighborhood market where I spend way too much of my money, they were displaying a card from The Food Project encouraging people to EAT LOCAL. They host numerous Slow Food events throughout the year and do a lot to support local farmers and to promote sustainable and organic sources of produce and meat. This is one reason why I don't mind spending a little extra to support them - they share my beliefs about where food should come from and how it should be raised and grown.

Lionette's has some beautiful organic blueberries. I'm going to use them to try my hand at making blaeberrry jam for Lughnasadh.

Imagine no blueberries. Imagine no grain. Imagine no harvest. Tailtiu help us save our planet so we can save the harvest.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 4:04 PM