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Collected Item: “Covid Gardening Story and Okra Recipe”

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Covid Gardening Story and Okra Recipe

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

iMovie

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I chose to focus on my garden and our chickens that we began right before the pandemic hit. I never realized how lucky I was to live in a rural environment until Spring 2020, when living in the country meant having a bit more freedom than in the city. Our garden and chickens provided us with foods that sometimes were out of stock in our small, local store. However, we also faced other things in our community that made the psychological aspects of the pandemic really hard, such as living with those who deny the reality of the disease and mitigation efforts that people like my husband promoted, as an ER physician. I suppose this story is a bit of a love letter to our little property out in the country, despite the differences in values that we have with our town.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#ArizonaStateUniversity, #HST515, #foodislife, #gardening, #texas, #rurallife, #chickens, #nature, #connection, #solitude

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Ellie Cormack

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2021-08-06
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