Grow Something, Anything!

The machine wants you to think that food is a product. Something that is processed, enriched, packaged, sanitised, wrapped in plastic, sent to a shop or delivered to your door. It's all part of a difficult process. It's complicated. Too complicated for you. Too difficult. Too dangerous to contemplate less you eat a bruised fruit, or semi raw vegetable. This afternoon, I popped 15 little seeds into tiny handfuls of compost. I made a small…

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