IT TAKES A COMMUNITY TO SUSTAIN A SMALL FARM, by Steph Larsen 

"I used to think there were four distinct pieces to a local food system: production, processing, distribution, and retail. Now I realize there is a fifth: community. Without an involved community of customers who believe in what the local farmer, miller, distributor, and grocer is doing, none of them will last very long ..." 

Read the whole essay here Grist: A Beacon in the Smog

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The California Cook THE FACTS ABOUT FOOD AND FARMING, by Russ Parsons

"One of the more pleasing developments of the last decade has been the long-overdue beginning of a national conversation about food -- not just the arcane techniques used to prepare it and the luxurious restaurants in which it is served, but, much more important, how it is grown and produced.

The only problem is that so far it hasn't been much of a conversation. Instead, what we have are two armed camps deeply suspicious of one another shouting past each other (sound familiar?)..."


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