My red onions watercolors and ink painting found it’s way into the newsletter by the NAFSN North American Food Systems Network
Excerpt from their website “The North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN) was founded in 2015 to offer leadership and technical skills training, networking, and other professional development opportunities for the growing group of individuals supporting the development of equitable and sustainable local and regional food systems.” Read more
Here is a link to the newsletter, so you can read about all the individual that are working on bringing new ideas to the food table. NAFSN News, August-September2021
Red Onions watercolors and Ink
Painting food is part of my subject matter as an artist. My mother, grand mother aunts they all could cook and bake and I learned a lot from them.
All of them were great cooks and bakers. My grandmother took it further by using food as medicine. She was a women who survived two world wars. The second world-war one as a mother of three children. Resources were scares and medical help was uncertain and under the Nazi regime could not be trusted. The Nazis experimented on people and that included Germans too. My family was fortunate to live in a rural setting and everyone had gardens. Everything they grew was not just food but it was also medicine.
During the war many people became very suspicious of all the activities of the Nazi doctors and nurses. So my grandmother eventually kept her children out of school. When Hitler began to pull young boys out of school to send them to the front to fight. Yes they were just children’s. My uncle a child then, at one point became very sick with pneumonia but she could not take him to any doctors because out of fear he would become a target to the Nazis. He was just about that age were young boys were drafted. So women like my grandmother had to learn quickly how to use foods, herbs, as other natural remedies to treat illnesses that would pop up in their children.
She told me the story of her and her sister holding vigil at the bed of my uncle, when he was deadly ill with pneumonia. She said he could not breath and they quickly made onion poultice and covered his chest with it. Changing it to fresh ones every so often. He began to cough up lots of phlegm which had build up in his lungs. At one point she said he convulsed and rose up to cough and he choked. Her sister quickly took her finger, reached into his mouth to pull out a large amount of thick almost glue like mucous. After she pulled it out of his trachea, after that he started to improve. They continued the poultice with onions and he overcame the pneumonia. This is just one of the stories on how people in my family had to be creative to overcome medical adversities. Onions in general but red onions especially hold miracle powers that can save lives.
much of that knowledge seems to be forgotten, it seems. But maybe there is a resurgence. There is no liberty unless we learn to be self sufficient in every way.
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It is $400.00
Size in inches: 10 by 14
Size in Centimeters: 25.4 x 35.56
Medium: Watercolors
Surface: 300 lb Watercolor Paper
framed: No
Signed: Yes (front and back)
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