Rejecting the ‘food desert’ concept
In response to FLAVOR MAGAZINE, June/July 2009 article titled Not Quite What I Was Looking For under the page header 'in the food desert." Paul Ryan's description of his personal journey from home gardener to community gardener was timely. It was…
The bounty of fall greens
This past weekend I was the recipient of a bounty of fresh fall collards; broad flat deep green collards. Let's hear it for the QCC (Charlottesville's Quality Community Council)!!Today I prepared the collards for the freezer; 15 min cutting out…
My Best Cow and Calf
AS you can see Cello was a beautiful animal. Her temperament was gentle and she stood to be hand milked with never a twitch! She was a Guernsey and her milk was so rich that by the time I would…
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…