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One of the most interesting questions out there surrounding sustainable agriculture is “what about the poor?” — with the underlying assumption that sustainable food is more expensive and therefore out-of-reach for the poorer among us. I’ve struggled at length with this question as well when it comes to pricing for our products. In fact, I decided before [...] First, Ivy is 100% grass fed. Her milk has benefits similar to meat that is grass fed. The milk fat is healthy. Ivy is not fed “preventative” or sub therapeutic antibiotics. This past weekend I took my wife to see Food INC. This is a movie about our food system, our eating system ,and the industrialized way that our food is produced. Much of the movie was negative, of course, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel with Joel Salatin’s Polyface farms [...] Joel Salatin was invited to go to Washington as a part of a “Green Jobs Leadership Summit” after being nominated by Senator Jim Webb. Joel’s quote at the microphone to a panel of US Senators was priceless: I’m amazed that after half a day of talk about green jobs and energy, I have not heard the [...] So a few weeks ago, I was exploring (via Twitter), the notion of local food. Much of the discussion around local relates to geographic proximity (i.e less than 20 miles away, in the same county/state/country, etc). I was reading an article today from the Polyface Farms newsletter, and it suggested an alternative definition of [...] |
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