We are the Mama bears bringing baskets of turnips and beans from our own gardens. We wander the countryside looking for u-pick berry farms, and wild patches too, filling the freezers and jam cupboards. We weave magic in our steamy kitchens, jars upon jars gathering in our backrooms and basements. The greenhouse is overgrown with weeds and also full of lettuce and cucumbers hiding from the afternoon heat. We make food, harvest food and preserve food for our families but also for the love of it, the smell of ripe peaches blanching off their blush skins, tomato sauces bubbling away the hours, the ping of sealing jars while tea brews and crickets click, porch chairs creak and birds whistle in the brush. This life, this land, this way. For the love of it.
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