A Garden in Motion

This is Our grocery store.

These rows of trellised beans, the asparagus patch just waking back up, the tightly planted beds of greens and herbs — this is where our food comes from. This is our produce section. These are our aisles. This is the garden where The Savage Feast gets its inspiration.

I think it’s so important for people to really see and feel where food begins. Not as a package or a barcode, but as something living, growing, something tended. Having a space like this, and being able to share it, is one of the deepest joys of my life. I want people to reconnect with the roots of their meals — quite literally.

I’ve been trying to capture that feeling on camera for a while now, and this video is the first step. It’s a smooth, slow scan of our garden, just as it looks right now, in all its wild order. I’ve kept it simple for now — no text overlays or pop-ups — just the garden, alive and moving, along with birds and the pollinators.

But this video is only the beginning. Over time, it will become more interactive. You’ll be able to explore each crop — what I’m growing, the exact varieties, and how they’re used in my cooking. Some will link directly to specific recipes.

Take our cherry tomatoes, for example: we grow three different varieties, and when I roast them all together, something magical happens. The sweetness intensifies, the flavors deepen, and the blend becomes a cornerstone of my sauces — like our house marinara — or frozen to use all winter long in soups, stews, and pasta dishes.

This panoramic isn’t just a pretty shot. It’s an anchor for The Savage Feast — a visual map of the food we grow and love. Over time, it’ll grow more informative, more connected. But for now, I invite you to simply walk with me through this space. Watch it. Feel it. And begin to understand how deeply the land is tied to the table.

Where Our Food Comes From

People often ask — and I mean often — what we do with all that food. My answer is always the same: what do you do with the food you get from the grocery store? This is just a different way of seeing it.

For example, instead of buying 25 bags of onions throughout the year, we grow them all at once and store them. No plastic bags, no long-haul shipping, no weekly purchases. Just a quiet corner of the garden, doing its work.

And yes, we share a lot of food. We give it to neighbors, whatever’s fresh and abundant — a bag of peas, a handful of herbs. Even our neighbor’s one-year-old daughter lights up when she sees me walking over with a pea or a sun-warmed strawberry. She’s already learned to love food that comes straight from the garden.

That’s what this is really about.