Via Culinate, The Rise of the 'Locavore', How the strengthening local food movement in towns across the U.S. is reshaping farms and food retailing.
There's even a mention of my former co-op in Bloomington, IN, Bloomingfoods, though since they've been around for 30 years they can hardly be described as an "upstart"!
Also via Edible Nation, Dan Barber writes Change We Can Stomach, an editorial in the New York Times about the relationship between cooking, farming, and the future of agriculture.
A brief piece on NPR this morning about the relation between hard economic times and vegetable seed sales.
I'm not going to be saving $1500 on my groceries like the woman in the story - she must have a lot of kohlrabi and broccoli! I'd have to do some calculations to come up with an annual savings. I only have 180 square feet under cultivation, with 144 in vegetables and 36 in herbs, and at this point I'm not getting anywhere close to maximum yields.
Two pieces from Orion within the last eight months,
Where Have All the Joiners Gone? by Bill McKibben, from the March/April 2008 issue. A meditation on peak oil, the importance of neighbors, and the idea of "embracing nonindependence."
Horse Power by Dick Courteau, from September/October 2007. A small farmer with a lifetime of horse experience explores whether, in the days of environmental crisis and peak oil, horse power could once again fuel the American farm. I'm a life-long horse lover myself, and when I was a child I always used to fantasize about using horses instead of cars.
