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[arethinn]

"Today, consumers don't realize we pay for our food not just once, but many times. We pay at the store, yes. But we pay again in taxes going to subsidies for the biggest producers, who don't need them. We pay a third time in the costs of pollution we endure from large farms destroying our soil, water, and air. Then we pay again in social services for those squeezed out by factory farms. And we pay again in the costs of urban crowding and sprawl. [...] The future of sustainable agriculture is in the hands of the consumer -- as consumers, we must literally start seeing price differently."

     --Jean-Yves Griot, quoted in Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lapp and Anna Lapp

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[rialian.livejournal.com]

===Ah, yet another book I am planning to get into sometime soon....

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

It's a good read, although I've mostly been skimming it since it was, after all, purchased for the library and should get back out there on the shelf. Plenty of good stuff about rethinking wealth/scarcity, organic production, grassroots activity, etc.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I've got a collection of permaculture links in this post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ellyssian/75963.html). I live in an area with a lot of family owned farms, and I work in an area where all the family owned farms either sell their soul to a larger corporation or turn the fields into empty, soulless housing developments - tiny, treeless plots with cookie cutter psuedomansions. With all that, I figure I have to do my best to get my small bit of land producing a varied, natural woodland crop.