rethinking the human experience

Some people question the cost effectiveness of growing fruits and vegetables in a home garden. 

They say it's cheaper simply to purchase your produce at the grocery store. 

I'll put this as politely as possible: those people can't be trusted. 

Yes, a home garden requires prepping the soil,

buying seeds,

setting up netting to keep out the critters,

owning various diggers and other garden related tools.

and watering daily,

Lots of stuff, time and money money money.  

But life is not always about quantifying and calculating and measuring effectiveness.

You cannot, and should not, attempt to empirically validate the experiences that make life great. 

In fact, I would argue that the people desperate to quantify every human endeavor are missing out on the joy of digging in the dirt,

and watching produce grow and change colors as they ripen,

and the feeling of sunlight on skin.

Whether my humble tomato plants produce 3 or 30 or 300 juicy red beauties, I know it happened because I made it happen...with my own two dirt covered hands.  

Someone else might, but I will never try to calculate the satisfaction of a job well done. 

While the number crunchers are busy quantifying and counting and measuring our humanity, I will be in my backyard,

listening to the birds,

staring at the trees,

and eating the best damn tomato sandwich I've ever had.

You can count on that. 

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