Joel Salatin’s said it. Michael Pollan has probably said it. Countless bloggers, locavores, and whole foods enthusiasts have said it. Get to know your farmer. Well. If the instructions were, “Pay your farmer what he’s worth,” or “Read the manual for your new car,” or “Follow the recipe exactly,” it would be easy to follow [...]
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10 Questions to Ask Your Farmer
July 1st, 2010 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: farmer's market·farming·Go Local! Challenge·local·organic·pesticides·produce·sustainability
Michael Pollan on “Can Grassfed Feed the World?”
June 11th, 2010 · 58 Comments · Food for Thought
Michael Pollan came on stage carrying bags of processed foods. He proceeded to pull out “edible food products” and do a little stand up comedy about all the corny ingredients in them, and how creative the food manufacturing industry is getting to keep coming up with new products that we then think we need to [...]
Tags: corn·factory farms·Go Local! Challenge·grassfed beef·Michael Pollan·nutritionism·sustainability
Real Gardening vs. American Lawncare
June 9th, 2010 · 78 Comments · Uncategorized
Two weeks ago, I was watching my neighbor meticulously patch his lawn after spending a half hour edging the sidewalk. I thought, “If he spent that much time and care on a vegetable garden, he could feed his family all summer long.” Then last week on my son’s preschool field trip, the instructor showed the [...]
Tags: gardening·Go Local! Challenge·Little House in the Big Woods·local·sustainability·traditional foods
