"Let them eat grass"
~Moo-rie Antoinette
"Let them eat grass"
~Moo-rie Antoinette
With recent events in the world, including the "quality" of industrial meats and other foods and food security issues, the importance of building local food networks has never been greater. We recognize that it takes extra time and effort to find, buy and store locally-produced, seasonally available food.
However, that very act, besides providing you with the best, healthiest food on the planet, is assuring the survival of small farms and a thriving farm economy in your own neighborhood. (In the US today, the average bite of food has to travel 1,500 miles to get to your plate.) In addition, your food dollar is going almost 100% to support the local farm economy.
Our daily farm operation pays the organic farmer that grows the grains we use, the suppliers of chicks, local store-keepers, hardware stores, farm supply and repair shops, our processor, our neighbors who sell us straw and hay - all local, small farmers and businesses. It's this simple: your vote with your dollar helps us all to keep a viable local economy!
Farmers and eaters need each other to stay healthy!