(Pictured at left, green beans at the Live Earth Farm booth, downtown Santa Cruz farmers market, Wednesday afternoon.)
Some articles from recent ramblings around the internet:
• From the San Francisco Chronicle's food section on Wednesday: OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD: Farmers create a market niche for eco-friendly heritage meats... this is cool because I just met a farmer at one of our local markets who just got five baby pigs. He's getting a Tamworth (heritage pig) sow soon, paying nearly four times the going rate for her. I'm going to visit him soon.
• From the Santa Cruz Sentinel yesterday, an article about the Redman House, which is being turned into an agricultural museum: Ag history unearthed: Cabrillo students turn historic mansion into dig site. I Googled the Redman House, and found a web site that claims this: "This house is located in the middle of a strawberry field right off of the freeway. It is fully boarded up, but there are very noticeable hot spots on the roof of the house that shine blue, as well as many orbs that surround the house. From what the people that own us say, many people were murdered in this house, and it is extremely haunted. Doors slam and open on their own, people hear things happen in that house from far away. Screams of a little boy are heard as well as adults yelling for help. Strange spot." Well, that's the first time I've heard it was haunted, and every single web site says exactly the same thing.
• From Salon.com: "Big agriculture's big lie": A Kansas editor says our assembly-line approach to growing our food is actually contributing to world hunger -- and explains why buying local and buying organic is so important. (You can bypass the need for a subscription if you endure a brief advertisement.) "When you consider that out of every disposable consumer dollar that's spent on food, two cents of it gets to the farmer, I don't think it would be so horrible if four cents got to the farmer. That would help them out a lot, and it wouldn't hurt us at all."
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Thought for the day: "In heaven, they will bore you. In hell, you will bore them." —Katharine Whitehorn
That's all for now. More soon.
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