The 3rd article does an excellant job of articulating my thoughts and beliefs about why I am not certified organic. It is a question that I have been struggling to form an answer to for this last week. I had a customer who really needed 3rd party certification and I could not offer it to him. Instead I offered an open tour of the farm and honestly answered questions. While I understand and see the need for 3rd party certification. I also see it becoming a crutch and an easy way out of the responsibility individuals need to take for the source and condition of thier food. Convenience has priority, slow down, stop and participate in your lives. I really think we need to be looking at microcommunities. Let's pick a number and say that 75% of food should be sourced within 5 miles of your home. Imagine the economics of this as well as the benefits to the community, environment, and the quality of what you eat. Prices would/should come down. I am going to think about this idea some more. Enough for today. Thanks Joe
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Well it was bound to happen, it's only March and it is snowing. Supposed to rain this afternoon. Makes me feel better about being in a dark basement seeding flats next to the furnace. One of the last fires in the fireplace today. I just posted a bunch of NY Times articles on my twitter acount. They are all about the state of nutrition, politicol nutrtition, organics etc. I thought they were pretty interesting. Here are some of the links.
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Saw your mention about your Twitter account, but no matter how hard I searched could not manage to find it. It would help those new to your blog & Website, if you installed the Twitter Widget to both your blog and Website so it would automatically provide a feed.
ReplyDeleteOk being a a non techinical kind of guy......where do I find the twitter widget? Thanks Joe
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you found the Twitter Widget Joe. Looks good.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you like Twitter and you have a Webcam, you might also want to try out Seesmic as well.
ReplyDeleteSeesmic is to online video, what Twitter is to blogging and social media: it is a user friendly online video posting tools with which one can quickly record and then easily post short videos; and, like Twitter, is more akin to conversations or at least have the potential to be so anyway.
If you're interested, learn how to use Seesmic, here.
My account is here.
Speaking of Twitter, whether one uses it just on their computer or if one also uses it via one's cellphone, etc., it can be helpful to use a Twitter management tool application, here.
For example, as far as desktop (i.e., computer) applications goes, I recommend either TweetDeck or Twhirl (the former application is superb, however the latter application is real good too, particularly for anyone who has multiple Twitter or other social media accounts: e.g., Seesmic).