Growing food from seed has always felt like magic, but now it felt both vital and calming.
The order took hours to complete due to unusually high traffic on the grocery store website, and I could feel a sense of panic setting in as I repeatedly refreshed the page. I placed the order and stepped into my pantry to find, tucked under grow lights, several seed trays of freshly germinated cold-hardy vegetable seedlings I sowed the week before. Mustard greens, bok choy, peas, and broad beans. In the midst of collective panic and uncertainty were the beginnings of what would be, in only a few weeks, sustenance. Growing food from seed has always felt like magic, but now it felt both vital and calming.