Is this real?

     Recently on a FB post we had a response of "Is this Real?" now it was kinda mocking our post and our prices but it got me to thinking about something. 

How much of our life is real?

Now I'm not saying we are all characters in a Truman show episode. Think about it with me. With the overwhelming amount of AI in the world we can barely distinguish real from fake in our movies. 

Do you think AI is the place that replacements started? 

No. I think it was much earlier. 

It began with our disconnect from the farm. Food is no longer a labor for life but an experience either good or bad, a bother to some and an obsession for others.  We looked at it as a budget item in our monthly budget instead of a life sustaining and enriching endeavor.  It became packaged and convenient. not grown and harvested. We no longer eat from the bounty of the season but from the storehouse of the industrial monolith. In that we have become unhealthy and unattached. 

The food most of us consume isn't real or even grown by our neighbors. It's imported from someplace that has illegals working in jobs we want done cheaper so we can Netflix and chill.

The most real thing is we have given up control of the real for the fake. We want to eat things that give us comfort but we don't comfort one another. We want excitement from an experience instead of fulfillment from a purposeful use of our talents in the way God intended. We want to be individuals set apart from community and yet we are starved for friendship. 

We want health but it needs to come in a pill, or an operation, not good food or exercise. In essence we want the prize without the work.  We want the glory without the gore. 

SO if you feel like  you live in clown world where everything is fake YOU can change that. At the same time you will experience total gratification instead of instant gratification. Have your kids help make ice cream, or butter. Let them know food doesn't just appear but requires work. Real work.

And it's simple but not easy. Take time to find good healthy food. Not the easy stuff found at the wally worlds or costco's.

Find a farmer. 

Take an interest in your food. Ask the hard questions determine what real food is and go after it.

Life is real and it requires connection.. 

I thought I had farmed for "real" for years. I found out I had just fed the beast and not fed my neighbor. 

I'm farming real so you can eat real.

Have a real meal today for memorial day. Get some locally raised beef, pork or chicken, (preferably grass fed), go to someone who has a garden or better yet grow your own and eat a seasonal food today. Especially get some real dairy products from us. And if your real adventurous get enough milk and cream to make your own ice cream. It's real and your kids will love making it!