If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

Remember, machines don't forgive.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.