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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Joel Salatin advocates a better way to raise food
  • Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:35:18 -0500

Thanks for posting this, Paul. Joel is a longtime friend and mentor of mine, and I'm more in awe all the time of the enormous contribution he is making to changing "how the world is used" through agriculture.

I have a lot of respect for Jo Robinson and her work as well, but she has it all wrong in her comment:

“His model is not scalable in terms of getting bigger and bigger. That defeats what he’s doing,” Ms. Robinson says. “It can be multiplied – there can be many people that do what he does. There are people who are scaling up so that they can sell to restaurant chains and Whole Foods, and he’s not a part of that.”

Supplying Whole Foods should *not* be our criterion of agricultural success. Especially in a time when everybody knows that there is a *jobs* crisis in this country--one which threatens the foundations of the economy--it is precisely the multiplication of farmers like Joel, serving local markets and operating at too small a scale to supply mass vendors, that could provide massive new employment and revitalize the economy (and the rural community, and the environment, and social justice. . . .)

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
www.themodernhomestead.us

How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
~Wendell Berry





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