If communities of farmers and consumers wish to promote sustainable, safe, reasonably inexpensive supply of good food, then they must see that the best, safest, and most dependable source of food for a city is not the global economy, with its extreme vulnerabilities and extravagant transportation costs, but its own surrounding countryside. It is, in every way, the best interest of urban consumers to be surrounded by productive land, well farmed and well maintained by thriving farm families in thriving farm communities. 
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
"Farming and the Global Economy"
If communities of farmers and consumers wish to promote sustainable, safe, reasonably inexpensive supply of good food, then they must see that the best, safest, and most dependable source of food for a city is not the global economy, with its extreme vulnerabilities and extravagant transportation costs, but its own surrounding countryside. It is, in every way, the best interest of urban consumers to be surrounded by productive land, well farmed and well maintained by thriving farm families in thriving farm communities. 
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