Blog Love: Pocket Farm
Illustration by Shannon Wheeler for EatLocal.net
Smart cookie Liz ruminates on why buying local is important to her.
Just one of her choice quotes, so do hop over and read her whole post:
I highly value food and use the opportunity to vote with my dollars every chance I get. By voting against growth hormones, pesticides, genetic engineering, feedlots with their manure lagoons, and excessive use of petroleum cements the knowledge that I have the ultimate control about what kind of foods make it past my lips. It’s a much more powerful method of voting than pulling a lever on Election Day. Businesses feel the results of those votes every single day when they look at their bottom line. How else do you think organic food became the fastest growing sector in the grocery store?
On Sunday we left the organic supermarket without any tomatoes because our only options were rather sickly looking fruit from Mexico or Holland. HOLLAND! It boggles the mind, really, considering that tomatoes are some of the easiest produce to grow. I can’t wait for my CSA to kick into gear. (We already got a “sneak peek” by way of some gorgeous spinach and cilantro the farmer surprised us with.)
Liz said,
May 18, 2006 at 5:48 pm
You’re too sweet. :)
If you haven’t yet, see if you can get your hands on Michael Pollan’s new book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I think you’d like it.
Melissa said,
May 18, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Wait a minute….You’re in Jersey and they’re trying to sell you Holland tomatoes? What the *(&(* is happening to my home state? Aren’t Jersey tomatoes and corn in season yet….?!!! (Maybe it’s too early…not till the heat of summer..?)
:P
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