We got our first small harvest from the vegetable garden today. Enough new potatoes for a meal for two, cooked with sprigs of rosemary and diced onion, both also from our own garden.

It feels good to have your own food growing just steps away from the backdoor, even though the vast majority of our diet is still processed foods from unknown origins. It would be satisfying in more ways than one to be even more self-sufficient.

I took the Ecological Footprint Test but found I did not do much better than average - mainly the result of living with only one other human in a (relatively) large house in a very hot climate. Fully half my result was housing.