I have now and then eaten mainly fruit. Earlier in the fall, I was eating mostly applesauce (boiled) through the day, and yesterday ate just raw mustard greens and crabapples and have been eating mainly crabapples since Tuesday, though going back to
sourdough crepes this evening. I notice that the apples and crabapples have the virtues of being nutritionally dense and a very light food on the digestion, the result being a sense of
energy and concentration of mind.
For me it is as much as anything a practice of gratitude and locavory, of eating what the
land gives. I have tried growing grain but it seems as if the land doesn’t want to grow grain! Someone or another always chomps the grasses before they are ripe. Though I’ve been wanting to get to harvesting the lamb’s quarters. But fruit grows so easily, is easy to gather and process (if necessary) and usually is a
perennial crop. And they taste good and you can eat them off the tree or bush, unlike nuts, pot herbs, grains, and some
roots. And for that, focusing on fruit as
staple foods while they are in season seems a very practical way to get more of your food foraged or grown yourself. There also tend to be so many apples some years that you can store up large quantities of dried
apple slices, which are good food and a good way of using more bitter apples, as the flavor becomes sweeter with drying.