The posts about Farmers Markets were interesting and sound very
good & green. But I take issue with them as I feel this idea
sets us up to further promote the Standard American Grocery Store
Mentaility.
Im working in my own community (and several others actually) to
promote a real farm friends mentailty, where everyone produces
something and grocery lists are lists of people whose farms we will
visit this week, rather than just a list of food items to be purchased.
In Oklahoma that means making friends, paying no sales tax, keeping the
farmers prices down and eating like kings! I have located the majority
of my families groceries (that we arent producing at home) from farms
within 10 miles from me. I know several others doing the same. I call
it stepping off the grid. I dont need to support CSAs that market their
members profits to Farmers Market custoimers, rather than returning the
profits to their investors. I dont need to support commercial
dependancies that cost huge amounts of MORE WORK BY THE FARMER (eg
having to get up at 4am, etc) I support the people who are willing to
be neighborly and keep our ideals in focus.
This is all a part of the same mentaility that inspires me to vote
my conscience and not just for someone that is predicted to WIN. If we
all vote our conscience, verses voting for who the media (christian and
otherwise) predicted to win, I think we might be surprised at Gods
blessing.
Same here....if you want to encourage a practical, not regulated
food source....buy from farmers you live near you know and set your
self out to determine what you can produce to contribute to a REALLY
viable market. Get off the treadmill and live they way you say you
believe.
Another friend shared with me this last month how she is tired of
fighting the environment to have the foods she wants and she has
decided to research and garden whats native and build a balanced diet
out of that. In Oklahoma that means drought tolerant plants and animals
as a rule...though we are getting alot of rain this year - lol. Her
garden is doing VERY well.
This isnt addressed to any one person....just a few thoughts in
general. What are we fighting here? It seems to me many are fighting
God Himself.
Dona in NE Oklahoma
"A RICH person is
not the one that HAS the most, its the person who NEEDS the least!"