Grocery Shopping

Standing in line at the grocery store, I always surreptitiously watch the people in line around me purchasing their groceries. As I’m only in the store about once a month (and this number shocks me. I can’t for the life of me think what I’m buying), I feel like I maybe look around a little [...]

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One more thing…

One more thing about S.510. Or maybe several more things. 1. I hope no one is under the impression that I don’t think giant industrial producers should be regulated. They should be. They make people sick all the time. I just don’t have any delusions that the FDA is going to use these new powers [...]

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Update on S. 510

*UPDATE: It passed around 11:45 this morning. We’re all screwed.* So supposedly they are going to vote on S. 510 this morning… I have been in a state of high nervous tension for the past week, wondering what’s going to happen. If this bill passes, it is going to completely change my plans to farm, [...]

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Why Farm

I was originally going to write a post on all the reasons it is hard to get started in farming if you are a new, young, and relatively poor farmer (or wannabe farmer). This was going to include a bulleted list of all the reasons, mostly economic or regulatory, especially in light of this new [...]

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One of Those Weeks (S. 510: Updated)

Ugh. I find the whole political process to be so tedious. So tedious that merely thinking about it makes me want to curl up and go to sleep (or maybe that is the rain and the cold). And the pizza I ate for lunch. Generally, a depressing sort of week. However, I feel the need [...]

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Pointing the Finger

Originally posted to George Goes Green on March 24, 2010. I was reading the book Cunt (Inga Muscio) again last night and had a thought. If you aren’t familiar with the book, it is a feminist book that attempts to reclaim the term “cunt” as a woman-positive word. I was reading the chapter on rape [...]

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Let’s Be Honest

Actually, that last leads nicely into the honesty discussion. Because, after all, why are we doing this local foods thing? I’ve been guilty, lately, of one of the things I preached about the most on my old blog. It makes no sense to be running around organizing things if you don’t have a clear goal [...]

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Whoa, Nelly

Can’t wait for this to come out!!! Love that my friend Liz is right there front and center, talking about milk! http://player.vimeo.com/video/16513455 Farmageddon Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Check that out. I’ll actually write a full length post tomorrow, promise.

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Still Working It Out

Sigh. It’s all well and good to read all these books on local foods, and then I get in my car and drive through the landscape and realize it’s not reality. Not yet, anyway. And maybe not in my lifetime. The trouble of it is, this economic thing. There’s an endless conflict between what is [...]

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The Biggest Assumption of All Pt. 2

The other assumption was, of course, that land should be put to human use. This struck me when I was listening, again, to someone pose the question of farming vs. development. You know, that if we don’t have farms, we will have development. And I couldn’t help thinking well yeah, but that’s presuming we use [...]

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