Posts Tagged ‘ farming ’
Plenty to cheer in the New Year
It was in retrospect, to paraphrase Mr Dickens, the best of times. Slowly awaking to the scale of society’s environmental and health problems, more of us were taking a closer look at the source of our daily bread. Who made it? Where was it made? What was it made with? Should I be eating it? Organic was no longer a “hippy” term, but had become hip. More →
Painting the White House green
Obama the Organic Commander in Chief? It’s an interesting proposition, although it’s hard to know where he sits in the great food debate. The only comment I’ve seen attributed to him in this interminable election – what is it with American polls? – was one bemoaning the cost of arugula in organic leader WholeFoods. Whether that means he shops there, or he just thinks organics are over-priced is not clear. More →
Good living on the land
I’d be terrible at farming. Getting up close and a little too personal – hello, lambing season anyone? – with nature. But I love to hear stories of farmers bucking the system and reaping the rewards. Take George and Kate Heathcote. The publicity shots from the British reality TV show, A Farm Life, for which they agreed to be guinea pigs might make them look like an old-fashioned cliche, More →
