It can, but you’ll have to buck and take some initiative, as well as some personal responsibility. Oh, and the bureaucrats are going to have to get out of the way, all according to Joel Salatin.
Eating well does not require you to eat organic
tomatoes shipped air freight from Peru in January. You can eat [...]
Archive for August, 2009
27 Aug
Can alternative farming feed the world (ie the downtrodden poor folk) ?
26 Aug
Some folk just don’t get it, or Craig Newmark for president….
Excuse my tired fingers, I’m taking a shift break from my annual evening of hand grape crush/watching Firefly DVD’s.
The latest issue of Wired has a great piece on the success of craigslist, and it’s supposed deficiencies, despite being the leading job search site, and the leading real estate site, among others. The author can’t [...]
18 Aug
Grape Harvest
We harvested and crushed our first crop from the Syrah grapes we planted three years ago. You’ll see our vineyard, plus the teaching vineyard where we took the grapes to be crushed. The university pics are the ones with the old church in the background. This is really the wife’s project, so most of [...]
10 Aug
Ironic Capitalism
The other day a friend and I had a quick email discussion of the Blake Hurst piece that I pointed out in my last posting. His position was in line with Hurst’s, that organic food is crap, and that modern conventional farming practices are the optimal use of agricultural resources. That has [...]
