The ironic thing is this: the meteoric rise in spending on organic and artisanal foods shows that many Americans don't believe that food that is mass-produced on factory farms is worth even the ridiculously low prices that farmers receive for it.
To me, Food Freedom means the freedom to buy and sell healthy, locally produced food in a relationship between the farmer and the families who buy from him. It means throwing off the insanity of feedlot beef and "Round-Up Ready" corn and soybeans. It means that farmers will once again become nurturers instead of agribusiness CEOs.
On Independence Day weekend of 2005, my family moved a little closer to Food Freedom Day for ourselves and hopefully for other families who will purchase food from us. We hope to turn our little corner of the Earth into a sustainable, grass-based farm. In future posts I'll talk a little more about what that means to us. For now, I'll say that our goal is to produce the healthiest food possible while leaving this land in better shape than when we received it.
This is a photo of our pond and the stream that runs through our property. The weather in January was unseasonably warm but last weekend we had 8" of snow.
weather today: 8/31 dusting of snow overnight
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