Hi all,
There is a petition circulating to advocate for a progressive-minded Secretary of Agriculture appointment by Obama. It has all the big names behind it–Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Wes Jackso, Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, etc–and is very quickly making the rounds. If you haven’t yet, please visit the site, read the message, and sign the [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 11, 2008
sign the petition for Ag Secretary now!
December 4, 2008
big brimming boxes
Our first winter produce pick-up day has come and gone without a hitch. We harvested at about 10 am (in contrast to 6 am market mornings), packed up the boxes midday, and distributed them 3-6pm. It was a great feeling to be harvesting produce specifically for individual people. We knew we needed about 42 napoli [...]
December 2, 2008
Bounty Hunters
What better time than Thanksgiving to think about how to share with people in need? In the farming world, this sharing often takes the form of the ancient tradition of gleaning. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from a farmers field. The concept goes back a long way: apparently, ancient Jewish law required [...]
