Plant the Seeds, Trust the Process (and tomatoes)
by Melanie Salvatore-August author of Fierce Kindness: Be a Positive Force for Change (Yellow Pear Press 2017) Every mother’s day for the last 5 years I have planted 3-5 tomato plants anticipating the summer growing season. It is a dream fulfilled and continuing that I have the ability to grow some of my own food and live on a budding homestead in Northern California. Some years I stop at a local nursery the week before to buy seedlings and other years after the obligatory Mother’s Day brunch or rowdy kid filled stop at Starbucks to get my mom-latte, I stop to pick some up. This year, nothing. Too busy. I hadn’t made the time and ahem, no one else thought to buy them for me. No brunch or...