King's Daughter's Kitchen

I would choose to live in Alexandria, Louisiana, far from my current home. Currently, Alexandria is known for growing soybeans, cotton, and sugarcane. Imagine that I move there, where it is growing zone 8, to buy and plant hundreds of acres of fruits and vegetables instead? I would like to change people’s minds over to healthy eating and self care to help them live long with joy and to feel free from pain.

I want to show people how dirt they live on can work for them for their healthy longevity and be a good return investment. Now Alexandria produces one harvest for a one time hard-fought payment. The population of the city is declining. When it becomes known for health and vitality like some places in California, but it never faces a water shortage, I’d have done something great. When fruits and vegetables became regular, clean- food, money-making crops, men would always work.

There is one hitch in my get-along. How do I convince a whole city to change its way of life? Planting new and different means tearing out old. It means changing what the people have eaten for their entire lives. Most people do not like change.

So… I would likely buy a small house with a few acres to plant, enough so crops aren’t running over each other. I’d open a fruit and vegetable stand where I would sell produce and share planting ideas and seeds. If it went well, eventually, I would be able to open a Farmer’s Market with neighbors.  Our long-term goal of a sustainable business as fruit and vegetable sellers with a co-op of shipped fresh foods would take awhile, but we could work together for success. Alexandria is a beautiful, healthy choice, and pursuing the choice freely would be quite an adventure.