Farmflash:
Farming still dangerous, years after Robert Frost wrote “Out, out–”…
Meet Rise & Shine’s CSA in Rome. (That’s Georgia. And not the one with the Russia problems.)
Foggy River:
Change is in the air at the farmer’s market; the customers and the marketers both feel it, but in different ways.
Walking down the farmer’s market aisles, customers are overwhelmed [...]
Farmflash:
Sonoma County’s Press-Democrat dives gradually into Slow Food.
In California, farmworkers continue to die of heat; OSHA law not helping workers due to lack of enforcement.
American man forced to sell Canadian farm that has been in the family for 99 years.
Foggy River Philosophy:
A word of warning: for a while, I’ve been debating whether or not [...]
…at least in the summertime.
Coming back to the field this morning was, erm, ahem, <choke>, a bit of a shock. There was good news, and there was bad news.
I’m a realist. Let’s start with the bad.
First of all, in two weeks, dawn has changed noticeably. Emmett and I arrived on the field at [...]
How much would you charge — or pay — for a bunch of freshly picked French breakfast radishes?
Pricing produce at the farmer’s market is always a tricky endeavor. The case of the radish, I think, exemplifies farmers’ and shoppers’ competing cost value systems. I’ve parsed out the following cost value systems below:
1. The Economist. According [...]
The end of August is going to turn San Francisco into a foodie haven (more so than it already is). Even the New York Times, which was a little slow to pick up on the CSA trend, is taking notice.
They‘re turning the front of City Hall into a Victory Garden full of food. [...]
For the past 6 weeks — since we first started attending the Windsor farmer’s market — we’ve made more money each subsequent weekend, because we’ve brought more (and a greater variety of) produce each time. Every weekend, we sold out of our pre-bagged baby red-and-green leaf lettuce mix before the market closed. We [...]
