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Nice video about the bees in residence on the White House lawn.
Nice little advocacy opportunity from Down to Earth, one of the programs connected with Science Friday, the NPR show: email the Post Office in a campaign to get a commemorative stamp made for L.L. Langstroth, "the father of American beekeeping." No bees, no food, right?
Also, bees are dying in huge numbers all over, for no known reason. Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about it two years ago in the New Yorker - the situation is pretty much the same now, if not worse.
Long article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about how out of reach the sustainable food movement can be to anyone without lots of money. Opens with a story about a homeless couple coming to a Slow Food lunch that was a demo of food for low-income kids in public school lunches: In a flash, an event volunteer was on the case, nervous in an endearingly liberal manner. “Sir,” she began. “This food is for the Child Nutrition Act.” And then she paused, searching for what to say next. I imagined her thinking: “Sir, this food is to raise awareness about the availability of sustainable food to the lower classes, not to be eaten by them,” or, “Sir, this good, healthy, local food is not for you.”
A new report from the USDA shows the highest numbers for hunger in America households in 14 years. NY Times summary article here; USDA full report here.
Winter food production at Michigan State - under hoop houses. Looks neat.
Nice article from Joel Salatin, crazy Christian libertarian super organic farmer in Virginia, about his views on raw milk. (It's currently illegal to sell raw milk to the public, which some groups get around by setting up a co-op type of model so the customers are officially/legally also the owners of the milk.) Interesting stuff on the right & wrong kinds of regulation in our food system that we need from the government.
Our winter share is happening - 2 distributions of food in November & December. Sweet potatoes, onions, shallots, winter squash, popcorn, leeks, turnips, beets, etc. Woo! And this week we're planting the garlic. Lots still happening, even though it's chilly.
marriedtothesea.com has some funny comics sometimes. like this one.
