Post in the NY Times on Feds vs. small farm veggie growers
by a small farmer dismayed at the Federal Government’s active discouragement of local food production:
Garden Girl on March 1st, 2008 | File Under slow food, locavore | No Comments -Attack On The Front Lawn — Artfully Growing Food In Austin
I’ve been looking forward to seeing this project since I first heard it was coming to Austin. The “food not lawns” movement is another example of how we can find again for ourselves the fulfillment that comes from addressing our basic human needs with our own hands rather than chasing happiness through being consumers driven by media manufactured pseudo needs (growing delicious healthy food for your family, neighbors & friends beats having the lawn that most looks like Astroturf in your neighborhood).
& once again the answers comes down not to bigger better technology that will allow us to stay in the rat race, but rather to encouraging people to live with more understanding & more intimacy with their environment and with each other.
Green Right Now covers Fritz Haeg’s Attack on the Front Lawn :
http://www.greenrightnow.com/2008/03/01/attack-on-the-front-lawn-artfully-growing-food-in-austin/
& this is why to eat meat from a trusted, local source
143 million pounds of beef recalled
http://www.ethicurean.com/2008/02/17/hal
There was an NPR segment this morning on this (warning there are brief descriptions of cruelty to animals) as well.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19141306
This was entirely preventable with the right kind of government oversight. What are your tax dollars going for if not this?
(My spouse & I don’t at meat anymore, but if you are looking for local, humanely raised & slaughtered meat in Austin/ San Antonio, I urge you again to check out Greenling.com )
This is why to go Greenling.com if you live in Austin or San Antonio
From the Austin Chronicle:
… Benitez, the director of the coalition, told an audience at UT Thurday evening that Whole Foods “is more interested in cheap tomatoes than the well-being of those working to get produce to the store.”
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Blogs/News?oid=oid%3A589592
I can’t tell you how much I love Greenling. They support local farms & farmer co-ops. The local basket ( big enough that an every other week delivery will keep two people in fresher and tastier than store bought, organic, local produce) is made up of things you’ll never see at Whole Foods, because Greenling will buy small batches of what the farmers have. Their prices are competitive with Whole Foods & you shop from your computer & receive a bin at your freakin’ door (that’s convenience).
The staff is always responsive & friendly.
