Local Farm Near Boulder, CO

If you have been paying attention to the news lately it seems like eating local and organic has been everywhere.  The New York Times had an interesting article last week titled Is a Food Revolution Now in Season? The article discusses why local and organic food activists are hopeful that the government will begin taking measures that will benefit them.

Regardless of your politics, if you are into local and organic food, it is a pretty exciting time.  Michelle Obama recently planted an organic vegetable garden at the White House and has been talking about the importance of local foods,  members of congress have read Omnivore’s Dilemma, and the new Deputy Secretary of Agriculture is a local food activist who according to an article on Gourmet.com “has directed a group of projects designed to stimulate community gardens, develop regional marketing strategies between consumers and local farmers, and promote food and gardening education in local schools”.  And according to another article the number of small local farmer’s across the U.S. has been increasing.

With the economy faltering, I hope that this movement will still make some headway and not be seen as something for an elite group of people who can afford it.  If the government really did something to help small local farmer’s, cheap local organic fruits and vegetable’s  may no longer be seen this way. Healthy food is something that should be available to everyone and not just people who can pay the extra it costs over eating fast food.

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