http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/09/30/homegrown-the-21st-century-family-farm/ Culinary Rants & Raves from Bay Area Foodies and Professionals Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/09/30/homegrown-the-21st-century-family-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-16931 Shelly Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:34:11 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=7102#comment-16931 Everything old is new again. It's interesting the way this family's decision to grow their own food seems to have encouraged them to work and live together. One wonders whether the return to a more sustainable, agrarian lifestyle--even in the city--tends to foster closer family connections ("we often forget the "family" half of the equation in family farming," as you so aptly put it). These connections radiate outward to the greater community, from the farmer to the farmers' market to the people who buy local produce at the market or the CSA. The polar opposite of the splintering of connections inherent in factory farming, massive supermarkets and urban life in general. Over a century after Dickens and Blake, here we all are going, wait a minute, this industrialization thing isn't really all it's cracked up to be. Everything old is new again. It’s interesting the way this family’s decision to grow their own food seems to have encouraged them to work and live together. One wonders whether the return to a more sustainable, agrarian lifestyle–even in the city–tends to foster closer family connections (“we often forget the “family” half of the equation in family farming,” as you so aptly put it). These connections radiate outward to the greater community, from the farmer to the farmers’ market to the people who buy local produce at the market or the CSA. The polar opposite of the splintering of connections inherent in factory farming, massive supermarkets and urban life in general. Over a century after Dickens and Blake, here we all are going, wait a minute, this industrialization thing isn’t really all it’s cracked up to be.

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