Young Farmers are Going Organic
Young Farmers are Going Organic
By Viola Woolcott
Isn’t it good to know that people start to realise that we do need farmers? And there are also more and more people who plant ‘gardens’ in their back yards. They want Organic AND they want quality. It is clear to me that the growing market for organic and locally grown produce is making it possible for well-run small farms to thrive. There is nothing like home-grown fruits and veggies.
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food over long distances (see global warming) and the beauty of greenmarkets (see the four-times-weekly locavore cornucopia in Union Square), some young urbanites are starting to put their muscles where their pro-environment, antiglobalization mouths are. They are creating small-scale farms near urban areas hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium.
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Filed under: Organics on March 24th, 2008
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