We recently finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma in this house, and the part that deals with corn production got me a little depressed. Michael Pollan makes some great points about food becoming a commodity, and what that means, and how our treatment of corn has brought commodity-style thinking to our other food: this egg […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
USDA Stifling Small Farms
05-Mar-08Welcome March
04-Mar-08Today’s rain and warm temperatures started the ice pooling in rivulets down the street. It seems like we’ve had snow on the ground since November. The snow berms have gotten so high that they’re blocking sightlines at major intersections.
Like most of us, I’ve got a touch of the plague that’s been going around, […]