{"id":35883,"date":"2013-12-11T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=35883"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:39:41","slug":"article_28906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/farm.cfm\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm Issues page<\/a> and our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/transtions\/index.cfm\" rel=\"noopener\">Organic Transitions page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Everything we eat has a story behind it. The bread aisle (at the store with the massive parking lot) is a thrill ride. That story starts on stretches of land in places you&#8217;ve never been. Its main characters are gene-splicing scientists, patented life forms and huge industrial robots. Fleets of 18-wheelers make epic road trips before the narrative climaxes in the cash register of one mega-corporation or another. By comparison, the story of sustainably raised, locally marketed food is a bucolic tale: a hop from farm to table.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975, Wendell Berry-the poet, novelist, farmer, activist and philosopher-released <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_unsettling_of_America.html?id=uSk9gAktmpQC\"><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Unsettling of America<\/span><\/a>. That collection of essays focused on the cultural and environmental implications of modern agriculture and the need to put intelligence before profit when it comes to the business of farming. On October 4 on PBS, <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/\"><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Moyers &amp; Company<\/span><\/a> will present <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/73004088\"><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet<\/span><\/a>, a documentary produced by the Schumann Media Center that features a conversation between veteran journalist Bill Moyers and rural America&#8217;s man of letters.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight years after the publication of<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Unsettling of America<\/span>, we remain disconnected from the production of the food that keeps us alive. What we put in our mouths we trust to the hands of an industry so massive it&#8217;s difficult to comprehend. Transforming the current system into one that values healthy land, production on a sensible scale and a reliable marketplace for small farmers requires a David-at-the-heels-of-Goliath kind of mindset.<\/p>\n<p>Small farmers must select which stones to throw at Big Ag. And Mary Berry, Wendell&#8217;s daughter, is helping them take aim as executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berrycenter.org\/\">Berry Center<\/a> in New Castle, Ky.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Berry, daughter of poet Wendell Berry, wants to take local food beyond &#8216;a faddish economy.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1012,1031],"tags":[3,5,15],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mary Berry, daughter of poet Wendell Berry, wants to take local food beyond &#039;a faddish economy.&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/organicconsumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-11T16:39:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OCA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@organicconsumer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@organicconsumer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OCA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OCA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/#\/schema\/person\/17936886bc35620784b0838870381700\"},\"headline\":\"Where Farmers Markets and CSAs Fall Short\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-11T16:39:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-11T16:39:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_28906\/\"},\"wordCount\":295,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Environment &amp; 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