There is a REVOLUTION in the air.
Not a revolution of generals and armies. It is more Copernican than that. It is a revolution of our
THINKING.
Thinking that knows good food comes from
GOOD FARMING,
and good farming depends on a healthy environment; thinking that knows it is not possible to produce truly nurturing food with pesticides, herbicides, growth [...]
I Am America
I am filled with mountains and lakes and rivers and brooks
and forests and grasslands and deserts and wildlife
Wonder
I am beautiful
And I am home and hearth to people who nurture their
children and honor their parents, who work hard and are
generous and thoughtful and caring and whose hearts
Love Greatly.
From my crucible democracy, freedom and liberty [...]
Public Notice
Friday June 16, 2006 Waitsfield, VT
Yesterday at 9:30AM the Washington County Sheriff’s Department hand delivered an injunction to American Flatbread Co. and George Schenck.
“This matter, having come before the court on the application of the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health for temporary injunctive relief…”
Ouch! So I phoned the commissioner [...]
Political Food
Food is important.
Its consumption is essential to our health and vitality.
More thank anything else we do, its production, processing, and distribution affects our environment.
It is around food we so often gather in the warm company of family and friends, and share in what is best of the human experience.
Food touches us all, and all [...]
I remember the afternoon I walked by the Shriner’s Burn Institute for Children in Boston, MA. I looked up at the windows and tried to imagine what it was like for the kids inside; working to get ell; struggling with their fears; some literally fighting for their lives. My heart ached for them. How could [...]
The name of this flatbread elicits more questions than the name of any other. Why? What does it mean? Who was Stephen Jay Gould?
My academic training is in the life sciences, so I have a bent toward scientific principles. It was in these studies that I was introduced to the biological logic of organic foods [...]
The Acts of Hand and Heart
Food Remembers is a belief that food has memory. Each piece of food we eat and prepare has its own story of where it came from, how it was cared for, grown, and slaughtered. Each one of these stories represents the food we eat every day. Food has a natural [...]
Deep food is a philosophical, scientific, social and political event. It is a broad and largely spontaneous response to the enviromental and human health crisis brought on by the industrial food model.
Deep food is a paosophy whose central thesis holds that food is important, and that it can be, and indeed needs to be, deeply [...]
