Posts Tagged ‘food’
Taking Back Our Future: Why Localization Matters
Who decides what happens to your community? Who decides whether farmland becomes subdivisions? Whether forests are logged or protected? Whether your drinking water remains clean? Whether local businesses survive or disappear? Whether your children can afford to live where they grew up? Whether your community produces its own food and energy or becomes dependent on…
Read MoreBranding Tradition: A Bittersweet Tale of Corporate Capitalism
It’s almost sugaring time here in Vermont. On our homestead we tap about 25 trees, boil down the sap on the kitchen cookstove, and – in a good year – end up with 4 or 5 gallons of maple syrup. That may sound like a lot, but since it represents our family’s main source of…
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