Comments on: A Good Food Farmer

By: Preview: a Good Food Farmer

Preview: a Good Food Farmer — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:47:42 +0000

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By: KAB

KAB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:30:48 +0000

Great story! Really captures Anthony’s passion and humor, as well as his commitment to making a difference in our community. Thanks!

(Loved the shot of the field and the rainbow…fabulous!)

By: sarah gilbert

sarah gilbert — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:51:54 +0000

beautifully done and evocative. it’s what i’ve been thinking more and more about lately — if you’re buying food from people who you never meet, and whose raw ingredients come from people they’ve never met, how can you possibly trust it? or to put it another way, how is it that we’ve developed this amazing sense of faith in our food producers, who buy commodity crops from enormous industrial farms, who pay thousands of nameless, faceless workers the minimum possible price to prepare our food, who are given incentives to get the maximum possible dollar at the minimum possible cost — how do we have faith in them despite all the multitude disappointments (salmonella, just to begin with)?

anyway, I love the way he thinks, and I can’t wait to try his cornmeal. I’ve seen it before at the market, and never purchased it; now I will.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:45:29 +0000

Makes good cornbread. Nuf said!

By: Keli Whidden

Keli Whidden — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:17:16 +0000

I am! We are lucky, our local market is about 130 years old and has been indoors since the early 80’s. Many of the local farmers supplement a bit, typically with a bit of fruit and peppers. I can understand that. It is the ones that only imported all year that I don’t like. Believe it or not, even our local grocers have a tendency not to carry local produce in any quantity in season…we are in a fruit belt and I saw a lot of fruit from around the world, but not much from here this last summer. I find that disappointing as well, though when questioned the reasoning was that our produce was going elsewhere and that they have contractual obligations to the food terminal suppliers. So, we have voted with our dollars and spend most of our food budget on the local farmers.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:05:15 +0000

Keli, you’re in Canada, right? I think it’s great (considering the weather) you do have a market open all year long. I have a question about the vendors you mentioned – who get their produce from a food terminal – are they also there in the more productive growing months, selling wares from these terminals? Or, do you think they are only supplementing their farming income by selling imported produce in the winter?

By: Keli Whidden

Keli Whidden — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:38:04 +0000

Great story, worth the plurkabstinence! Our local farmers market is open year round, and there are a couple of great local produce and cheese stalls. It bothers me to see them selling beside someone who picked up their produce from the same food terminal the grocery chains do…so I pass those imported stalls by to purchase from the real farmer.