It’s just after dawn on a Saturday and Frank is driving around downtown Austin looking for a car wash. There’s not much going on in a downtown area at dawn, and there are very few car washes. But the lady at the convenience store said she thought he could find one. That was right after […]
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I’ve heard it said that farming is little more than moving piles. First you spend a pile on seed, compost, tools and tractors, and then you spend a pile on labor to shuffle everything around the landscape. After the crops grow you spend another pile to gather in, package, cool, palletize, and ship your harvest.
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For the past 15 years, Food Bank Farm in Hadley, Massachusetts, has operated one of the most successful Community Supported Agriculture projects in the United States. Food Bank Farm produces food for 640 shareholders over a five-month season. But that’s only half of Food Bank Farm’s production. The other half of the food it produces,
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Occasionally I get to experience market farming from the consumer’s, rather than the farmer’s perspective. It’s always helpful to feel what it’s like to be a shopper instead of a producer. In this issue are articles about two markets that I first approached as a consumer. First was the story about Food Bank Farm in
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The current issue of Cooking Light, one of the most popular food magazines in the U.S., contains an article touting the peaches of Frog Hollow Farm, an organic orchard in California. The article says that Frog Hollow Farm’s peaches routinely attain Brix levels of 13 to 18 and sometimes higher. It quotes Jon Rowley, a
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