Get Your Veggie On
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I was listening to NPR this morning, an interview with an ecologist about environmental threats. Usually, I hear "environmental threat" and think, Blah blah blah. But this guy was interesting. He talked about the principle of "too big to fail" and how it applied to many things, not just banks. For example: farming. Mass industrial farming will be vulnerable as the planet heats up, and we'll need many small farms instead.
As it turns out, the number of individual farms is growing for the first time in a long, long time. I'm sure this is due to the farmers' market and CSA movements. More motivation to get out to the market this spring and support local farmers.
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I was listening to NPR this morning, an interview with an ecologist about environmental threats. Usually, I hear "environmental threat" and think, Blah blah blah. But this guy was interesting. He talked about the principle of "too big to fail" and how it applied to many things, not just banks. For example: farming. Mass industrial farming will be vulnerable as the planet heats up, and we'll need many small farms instead.
As it turns out, the number of individual farms is growing for the first time in a long, long time. I'm sure this is due to the farmers' market and CSA movements. More motivation to get out to the market this spring and support local farmers.
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posted by Anonymous at
4:39 PM
2 Comments:
so much good accidentally flows from buying a share in a CSA. we give money to allow small farmers to continue to exist. we vote for organic produce with our money. we have a fridge full of organic, fresh, local, seasonal, vitamin-rich foods. we exercise our home arts more. our families enjoy real meals together. our bodies are filled with nutrients unavailable in processed foods. we become too full for processed foods. we can go about our lives more energetically and efficiently, because we don't have as much poison in our systems.
*begins warbling, tears rolling down her cheeks* it's the cirrrrrrrrrrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife! and it feeeeeeeds us aaaaa-aaaaaaalll!
*sob*
I hear you, Wildflower.
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