Welcome, Pt.II

Hello! Karen here. Welcome again to the blog.

There’s a lot of information out there and it can be overwhelming to wade through. My goal is to provide a clearinghouse for links to helpful websites, interesting articles and notifications of upcoming events. Please feel free to contact me at kartho at verizon dot net or leave any ideas in the comments section.

I will be filling the sidebar with links to helpful sites and blogs that address sustainable food issues. I’ll be listing books and movies. I’ll give you links to local farms and farmers markets. And in the blog posts, I’ll be passing along links to interesting articles and upcoming events. To get started, here are a couple of my favorite articles.

NYT’s Mark Bittman’s classic article, “Rethinking the Meat Guzzler.” (Free membership may be required.)

The author and NYU professor Marion Nestle looks at the controversy surrounding Michael Pollan’s recent invitation to speak at Cal Poly. The attached letters reveal how threatened Big Agriculture is by the sustainability movement and how committed they are to protecting the status quo.

We can always take inspiration from the poetic and prescient (this essay is from 1989!) Wendell Berry. In his essay "The Pleasures of Eating," he reminds us that "eating is an agricultural act."

There is one event to pass on to you. Tonight at 7, there will be a free showing of Food, Inc. at the UU church on Grafton Common. I have seen the movie, and it is an excellent companion piece to FRESH.

I look forward to hearing from you with ideas for the blog!