Retailers report organics up 8% last year in spite of recession. Farmers markets grow by 15%. Hmmm…. looks like we’re voting with our dollars after all.
Writing Archive
Percy Schmeiser – Right Livelihood Award laureate
The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds, @DemocracyNow.org. I heard an interview on the radio with this remarkable man and found his documentary, posted here, a film by Bertram Verhaag-Now. The story that begins as a farmer’s fight with a multinational corporation for his [...]
Where does your food come from?
Energy, Shelter, Clean Water, Food I am mystified. How did we get here? As oil tightens its grip, and people’s homes foreclose, water becoming scarce and the state of our food industry in question, I ask, how did we get here? As this blog touches both on the growing of food and the consumption of [...]
My Spring Garden
There’s 6 inches of snow on the ground this January morning and yet I’m immersed in seed catalogs and companies trying to determine what I want to grow in our garden this spring. I’m very excited! Even though we put in our very first garden last year, we got to it in early summer and [...]
