I love this quote from The Manifesto on the Future of Food, quoted by Carlo Petrini in his wonderful book Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair:
The entire conversion from local small-scale food production for local communities, to large-scale export-oriented monocultural production has also brought the melancholy decline in of the traditions, cultures, and cooperative pleasures and convivialities associated for centuries with community based production and markets, thereby diminishing the experience of direct food-growing, and the long celebrated joys of sharing food grown by local hands from local lands.
Question: Which feels better, shopping at the local farmers market or shopping at the local SuperMegaloMart? Why?
Today's front yard critter count:
Raccoons: 5 (Not-so-Crabby Mama and her 4 teenagers)
Deer: 0
The further we get from the land, the less we know about our food and, perhaps,even our culture. The complexity of our lives escalates without adding to the quality of our lives. The community is not only richer because we support locally grown food. We begin to know the principles and practices used to grow our food. A relationship is formed. This common ground then strengthens us, the grower and ultimately the community.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Your comment is even more profound than Petrini's.
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