Final Reflection Post

Since I last opened the book many things have happened, important things like how their diet works and how they planned it. Also they talk about how they intend to plant their garden.

“Our practice is quite different. It closely approaches the Japanese way of gardening… When they take out a radish, they replant a lettuce seed or other seed in the vacated spot…we plant in the spring, we plant in the summer; we plant in the fall… harvesting early summer greens and roots. ”

Pg. 240 The Good Life

“ Where do we turn for good, healthy, nourishing, unadulterated food? To our own gardens, of course, and our own kitchens… The best and simplest food in the world is unprocessed… As for food preparation, the less and the simpler the better.”

Pg. 369 The Good Life

They also talked about staying away from store food, as much as possible.

The way they garden interests me the way they do it is better than we normally garden in the U.S. but they took on the Japanese style which seemed to work a lot better.

When I finished this book it showed me that we could do as much as we plan to if we put our time into it, like they did back then. So that proves that we can do something that incredible.

My favorite part has to be the way they eat if we did that now Americans would be in a lot better shape. There would be no obesity and our environment would thrive at peak performance.

Discussion questions

1.     As I restated that if we made cooking simpler and easier if we planted our own garden, would you do this if the benefits were what I said they were?

2.     If you lived by these moral rules that they did how long do you think you could last and what would make you stop?

3.     What would you have to change about their rules to live like them if you lived in a big city?