Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

I found this in our area - the latest and greatest farm trend which 
raises more questions than it answers. Still, the writer is good at 
hyping it without providing any actual details that would recommend it.

One Community at a Time:  A New Mexico Network of Food Hubs
http://www.mrcog-nm.gov/local-food/local-food-blog/1035-dec-2013-nm-food-hubs
https://afsc.org/story/afsc-new-mexico-creating-food-hubs-across-state

I can't tell who's funding all this but suspect it's not our farmers 
market growers who struggle to break even selling locally direct to 
customers. And I have to wonder whether any growers would find this 
profitable or doable or scalable without the "support" of outside 
funding. There's the issue of why sell direct to cut out the middleman - 
the grocery distributors - only to substitute another, the "hub". And 
the question of what happens to local community customer-to-farmer 
contact when you haul produce halfway across the state. Then of course 
we have no way of guessing which growers are feeding us Roundup and 
2-4-D and so forth.

This sort of thing has been hyped elsewhere in the U.S. but details may 
vary.
paul tradingpost@lobo.net