#localavore

[xinesegalas]

Definitely our most successful year of growing corn in our raised garden beds #cornharvest #homegrownveggies #homegrownfood #homegrownharvest #homegrownhappiness #corn #freshcorn #straightfromourgarden #localavore https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbH7A2Aqia/?igshid=1nyt1mfh1ku4j

[jaxadele]

Another Seeds of Hope completed. Thank you to everyone who came, helped, partied, and is a part of our #community. I love my #nonprofit #family #nonprofitunicorn #oncommonground #mentorcenter #attleboro #farmtotable #staylocal #localavore (at Attleboro Farms)

[thenewvictorygarden]

Irresponsible Journalism

I've been noticing lately that I find myself reading articles in reputable newspapers (whether it's online or in paper format) and I finish with a bitter taste in my mouth. I leave my morning paper reading feeling upset and annoyed that certain articles that I read even make it into the paper. And no, I'm not talking about silly gossip stuff, I'm talking about real stuff and in particular topics that I care deeply about that are trashed and often by pretty decent writers. Is this how they get people to read the papers these days? Is it all about turning everything that might have a smidgen of goodness in it to shit? 

One article in particular, that I read this morning in the Globe and Mail after watering and carefully tending to my garden, really grated on my nerves. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/take-the-romance-out-of-farming-and-ditch-locavorism/article4396371/

And I'm tempted to spend a grandiose amount of time poking holes in everything this supposed journalist argues in her article but I've got a lot of studying to do.

Read that article, and chances are if you read my blog on a regular basis you're probably interested in at least some of the things I care about so I think it might strike a chord in you as well. And once you're done reading and being annoyed, check out some of the comments because some of them are more intelligently put together than that compost pile of an article. 

I think the biggest and most obvious problem with this article is that it puts down the local movement and offers nothing as an alternative so we assume that the alternative is necessarily factory farming. I don't think any intelligent person can argue that factory farming is 1) good for the environment 2) good for us - health wise or economically. Factory farming benefits corporations who have no qualms about our health, or the health of our earth. 

I mean seriously?

The reality is that there is no doubt a potential interesting and intelligent discussion to be had with regard to this topic, but it won't be started like this.