by David Gumpert | Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
For the first time in a long time, I spent a week pretty much away from the Internet (okay, there were a few 15-20-minute spells to monitor some urgent business, but it sure felt as if I was away from it). In reading over email from the last week, it looks as if...
by David Gumpert | Dec 1, 2007 | Uncategorized |
We all need to become more savvy not only about the food we eat and where we obtain it, but about interpreting all the related media messages that are created—spin, as the politicians like to call it. We like to think that our country has a free press, and...
by David Gumpert | Nov 29, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The discussion about farmer profits, or lack thereof, illustrates how amazingly conflicted we are about food, both as growers and consumers. I hear several issues being raised simultaneously, and that has a way of clouding matters: –Personal goals...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’d like to discuss food prices from a different perspective than they tend to get talked about. I find it interesting that a number of farmers commenting on yesterday’s post seem to feel uncomfortable about their pricing, and feel the need to justify the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 26, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It was a seemingly ordinary posting on a raw milk listserve I subscribe to in Massachusetts (sponsored by a raw milk dairy, Oake_Knoll_Ayrshires, at Yahoo Groups). On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a farmer offered “Certified organic fresh duckling available...
by David Gumpert | Nov 25, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I am of two minds about Thanksgiving. Like most everyone, I am grateful for the bounty and family time that are part of the holiday. But I always feel a sense of uneasiness about what follows, the assault on our senses by the advertising and retailing orgy we are all...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2007 | Uncategorized |
It’s easy to become outraged, as I did Monday, about a global food system in which individual farmers are anonymous cogs in a system controlled by huge international corporations. I can talk about not buying any more ginger, but what does that really...
by David Gumpert | Nov 20, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Growing numbers of American consumers want to buy their food directly from farms, because the food is tastier, more nutritious, and safer than the alternative. There is an amazing endorsement of the safety factor in today’s Wall Street Journal, which has a...
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