veggies!!!
May. 1st, 2021 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayalaenMy mom and I miss fresh veggies. We’re the type of people who love eating a salad for dinner more than pretty much anything else.
Gimme some spinach and/or Romaine with mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, kidney and/or black beans, etc. and a little bit of home-made honey mustard dressing and I’m a happy woman!
But since the numerous recalls of fresh veggies due to things like salmonella and then Covid-19 hitting, it’s made us rethink bringing something home from the supermarket and just eating it without cooking. So we haven’t had a fresh uncooked vegetable in over a year.
WE MISS THEM SOOOOO MUCH!!!
If you didn’t know, there’s a huge problem around my state because of the way field workers are treated. Their already-abysmal pay is docked if they dare to use the port-a-potty and even if they do use it, they’re not given toilet paper or soap, so the workers don’t bother stopping to use the port-a-potty. They just go on the field.
Our state has one of the biggest suppliers of fresh veggies in the country, and we supply 2/3 of the US. If you wanna know more, feel free to ask. It’s sick what they’re doing to workers, and nobody is doing anything about it.
Nothing against the workers. I blame it all on the greedy fucks who care more about profits than the health of the workers or the people who spend money on fresh veggies.
Anyway, after all the recalls (seriously we hear about at least one major recall a month around here) we were questioning it even before Covid hit.
We want fresh veggies again, so my mom has been looking into growing them indoors. We live in the desert so growing veggies outside is way too hard for the small yield you can get, and 4 months out of the year it’s pretty much impossible to keep veggies alive due to heat. I’ve tried it before.
My mom thinks she’s found the perfect way to set things up, so we’re going to use the pantry to do this.
We’re so excited and we haven’t even started yet.
One of these days we’re GOING to have fresh veggies again! I can’t wait to just bite into a veggie without cooking it!! 😍
Gimme some spinach and/or Romaine with mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, kidney and/or black beans, etc. and a little bit of home-made honey mustard dressing and I’m a happy woman!
But since the numerous recalls of fresh veggies due to things like salmonella and then Covid-19 hitting, it’s made us rethink bringing something home from the supermarket and just eating it without cooking. So we haven’t had a fresh uncooked vegetable in over a year.
WE MISS THEM SOOOOO MUCH!!!
If you didn’t know, there’s a huge problem around my state because of the way field workers are treated. Their already-abysmal pay is docked if they dare to use the port-a-potty and even if they do use it, they’re not given toilet paper or soap, so the workers don’t bother stopping to use the port-a-potty. They just go on the field.
Our state has one of the biggest suppliers of fresh veggies in the country, and we supply 2/3 of the US. If you wanna know more, feel free to ask. It’s sick what they’re doing to workers, and nobody is doing anything about it.
Nothing against the workers. I blame it all on the greedy fucks who care more about profits than the health of the workers or the people who spend money on fresh veggies.
Anyway, after all the recalls (seriously we hear about at least one major recall a month around here) we were questioning it even before Covid hit.
We want fresh veggies again, so my mom has been looking into growing them indoors. We live in the desert so growing veggies outside is way too hard for the small yield you can get, and 4 months out of the year it’s pretty much impossible to keep veggies alive due to heat. I’ve tried it before.
My mom thinks she’s found the perfect way to set things up, so we’re going to use the pantry to do this.
We’re so excited and we haven’t even started yet.
One of these days we’re GOING to have fresh veggies again! I can’t wait to just bite into a veggie without cooking it!! 😍