A report released earlier this year by Jake Robert Claro, a graduate student at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy who did the study for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, found that prices at farmers’ markets were lower for many conventionally produced grocery items than they were at supermarkets. For organic items, farmers’ markets beat grocery stores every time hands down.
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest and slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That’s the truest version of our story of eating animals.
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| — | Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer |
BARNES & NOBLE: Michael Pollan’s picks. Favorite books from the author of
Pollan’s favorite books on food & nature, just in time for summer reading
from the diversified farming systems community & beyond, via the Berkeley Center for Diversified Farming Systems
I can’t get over this On Being episode with Dan Barber, chef at the Blue Hill restaurant of Stone Barns Center. Incredible.
Rough Draft Farmstead is a fun blog for new farmers, and they’re dealing with a tricky, unfortunately unsurprising situation: neighboring farmers are being contaminated by runoff & overspray pollution.
