At the farm, we've been talking a lot over the past few days about more people having access to local organic food, and how to do that. How to make good food affordable, while keeping farmers afloat financially. and we're stumped.
Seems like either we subsidize the farmer so they can sell food for less, or subsidize the eaters so they can afford to buy it. (Wait, don't we already have farm subsidies in this country?)
Or we could change the food system, and do away with artificially cheap food that's grown at great environmental cost and often at the expense of workers' rights.
Winter project, anyone?
Food: Foraging in Spring
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So right now (as alluded to in my previous post), I’m focused on things of
a domestic nature in order to cope with the chaos raging outside my door.
Call i...
3 years ago
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Conversations like this inevitably lead me to despair that the only real way to get anything changed is to lobby the hell out of the federal government. But how much fun is THAT? And isn't it at odds with a (broadly conceived) notion of "going local"? I'd much rather be making heirloom tomato preserves...
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