What’s Real Still Grows from the Ground

Publish Date: Friday, November 28, 2025  |  Time: 8:51 PM ET

Category: Basics / Education / Reflection

In a world where you can pull up a video, image, or post in seconds (many of them created by machines) a lot of folks are asking the same question: Can we still tell what’s real?

With tools like Sora, a cutting-edge text-to-video model capable of generating lifelike scenes from simple prompts, the line between “made” and “grown” has gotten blurrier than ever. And while it’s impressive technology, it also raises a deeper concern for people who care about truth, connection, and creation.

The Age of the Artificial

We’re living in a strange and fascinating time. Artificial intelligence can now generate entire videos, songs, characters, and even voices that never existed. Tools like Sora produce mesmerizing imagery out of thin air.

But along with this creative power comes a wave of confusion. From deepfakes to misinformation, the online world has begun to feel like a hall of mirrors. A Pew Research Center survey found that over half of Americans (52%) worry AI-generated content will make it harder to know what’s true. And that worry isn’t just about fake news. it’s about trust itself.

When everything around us can be generated, enhanced, filtered, or fabricated, we naturally begin to wonder: What’s real anymore?

A Different Kind of Growth

That’s why we take comfort in something ancient and beautifully simple: the most real things still come out of the ground.

Seeds. Soil. Water. Hands that plant. People who tend. A harvest you can touch, taste, and share.

When you plant a tray of microgreens, you’re not just growing food, you’re reconnecting with truth. You’re creating something honest. Something that doesn’t need to pretend.

Because in a time when content can be generated in seconds, real food still requires care, patience, and love. It can’t be faked. It can’t be coded. It grows.

Why It Matters Now

We all feel it, the uncertainty, the overload, the nonstop stream of filtered stories and polished realities. But the good news is this: you can step out of that cycle any time. You can reach for something living, something planted, something real.

Choosing to grow food, to cook, to share a meal, or to pray over a harvest are quiet acts of resistance in an artificial age. These simple acts remind us that meaning isn’t manufactured - it’s cultivated.

For us, that belief runs deep. At Wilshires Organics, we see growing as an act of stewardship - trusting God’s design, tending His creation, and sharing His abundance. Every little sprout is a reminder that life doesn’t come from data. It comes from dirt, light, water, and faith.

Wilshire’s Organics’ Promise

At Wilshire’s Organics, we don’t just sell microgreens. We cultivate real food, real connection, and real purpose.

Every tray we raise is more than a product, it’s a statement. A quiet declaration that good things are still grown where love is sown.

That healthy food still comes from living soil, honest work, and faith in the One who makes things grow. We believe that in a world full of generated stories, the truest story is still written in the earth.

Each seed we plant is part of that story, one of love, care, creation, and community.

If you’re tired of noise, filters, and fabrications, come grow something with us. Because no algorithm can fake the warmth of a shared meal or the joy of watching something sprout from the soil.

At Wilshire’s, we’re keeping it real - one seed, one tray, one community at a time.

Watch our about video on YouTube. Some of it is based on information from this post: https://youtu.be/52ih1L40Ckk?si=AH00m-MAmmH9ResT

• Pew Research Center - Public opinion on AI-generated content and trust (2024).
• OpenAI — Sora model overview and capabilities.
• USDA / Cooperative Extension - General guidance on local food systems and the value of direct-to-table growing.
• Academic literature on digital misinformation, authenticity, and trust in media (various sources 2020–2024).