raising food
THE BEST PET EVER: A MILK COW
I’m seriously thinking about raising another milk cow. pros: they live for 15-20 years; they love you and give you milk and a new calf once a year; they produce lots and lots of manure for the garden; in the…
More on McWilliams
James E. McWilliams Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. Little, Brown 2009. With the emphasis on ‘just’ McWilliams asks all Americans concerned with issues of food production to look…
Food production: Local and Global
After reading, it seems, so many of the current books on local, sustainable, and responsible farming, gardening, and eating I have at last been introduced to an author who articulates a nuanced mid-ground between the ideals of the locavore movement…