(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to Fair, Homegrown, Proudly, The, at on 2006-10-04, 20:00:00

Back when we were a nation of farmers, the State Fair was the Super Bowl of everyday life. If you were the best corn grower or pig raiser this was your chance to prove it. Farmers shared their knowledge and joined in a celebration of the harvest.

(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to A, Crop, Homegrown, Shrinking on 2006-09-06, 20:00:00

One of the Web sites I check out regularly, Kitchen Gardeners International ( http://www.kitchengardeners.org ), is the work of an American named Roger Doiron. His stories are always interesting, but his news is not always good. In March, he posted a U.S. Department of Agriculture chart showing the decline of homegrown food from 33.45 percent of total consumed in 1894 to 1.5 percent in 2004. Undiscouraged, Doiron continued to rally his troops. "We know a good thing when we plant one," he cheered.