Hoping for a Sustainable Future?

Tools: shovel, ground, seed, time to spare.

Who doesn't have the desire to know more about how food is grown? Or, how it grows itself. 

I hope that this blog provides tools, resources, and information in real time to the burgeoning gardener inside you. Phrases coded by #Hint: relate to gardening (eg. #Hint: learn to build a raised bed). Often, will throw in internet and #web2.0 articles, as it is increasingly the medium by which we relate. Watch out! Be sure to take some time off the internet, too.

-EM

any questions, comments (lmo), or inquiry to: eddiemill@gmail.com

Those looking for a righteous profession might choose farming, the science of growth. Or, urban farming: the combination of available factors to produce food from small, narrow, tall, and exposed places. A mighty fine job in an age of plenty, to reconnect with what is basic and real. Mentally, it's about space and the outdoors, love and passion. Physically, it's good hard work: "let me earn the meat I eat". Economically, really interesting. 

Farming is emerging as an industry away from the commodity sector; from a competitive crop to a monopolistic competitive sale based on quality, location, and variety. Sold from a farmers market, it's clear food with a story is worth more, your face being there with the product adds value to the fruit or vegetables you're selling. Freshness is worth more; it's harder to find and carries with it a certain exclusivity, "just for you." The time and value spent on this type of farming adds directly to the quality and health and taste which you know. Local is also worth more economically; the dollars spent on food this way are spent and multiply within the existing local economy. 

If we change mindsets as an American people, Farming more in local food, it will improve relations internationally. We take the time from driven office-style growth to develop skills, education, and read more. Let conventionally grown commodities in Florida and California or Illinois who provide the bulk of it, the corn market already saturated with excess, not represent us. Local is about sufficiency, a concept that would serve well in international communities to be hearing from Americans. Because it has become clear to me over this last year that growth Economically will not serve everyone equally, nor are they able to. Factory growth, and factory foods, must lead to sustainable growth.

Now recruiting. Jobs, news, and opportunities for change within the field. The back field.