Grow a Radish

[Missing Middlemen - IV]

Get some soil, any soil.
Put it in a pot, any size.
Buy a radish seed packet.
Plant a few seeds in the pot.
Water daily. Not too much.

In less than a month you will, perhaps for the first time, eat your very own, hand-planted, homegrown, radish.

This sounds like a third-grade science project. It is. But there’s an adult lesson here.

When we move something from the unknown to the known we have a choice: Do we want to do the work or not? That’s a much different conundrum than being stuck in ignorance. Growing food is not an obscure specialization that inherently dis-empowers eaters. Growing food is something we can all learn and all do. People don't grow food because, well, it’s hard work.

Ignorance chooses for you and is dis-empowering.
Doing the hard work is often the only way out of ignorance.
(Not doing the hard work is a choice you can make, but only after you’ve gotten your hands dirty.)