hat if the year round food bounty of supermarkets, something we grew up with and so is our “normal”, is not as healthy as we think it is? What is there not to like about many choices and the more choices, the better the nutrition? What is not to like about variety? Must be more healthy. Do we always benefit from our great achievements? How about our abilities to produce and extract huge quantities of cheap refined, white sugar? How well has that worked out? 

There is a move on to grow local food for local use. The benefits would be dramatic in so many ways. The first obvious would be the cutback on fossil fuel use for transportation. Add organic to the mix and there is a further cutback on fossil supplies in the forms of fertilizers and pesticides. 

As people would purchase more locally throughout the year they would be eating more seasonal food. Root vegetables are a main winter crop staple such as beets, turnips, carrots, parsnips, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Greens are in shorter supply but still kale, Arugula, and other related species and varieties are in season. 

And so it is there is a season for corn and one for broccoli, and let’s not forget melons. Maybe we are meant to eat more of what is in season because there are seasonal relationships that are mutually supporting. 

Another benefit of local organic farms would be the preservation, enhancement and development of the environment and habitat unlike the current destructiveness of so called green renewable energy facilities, which destroy habitat, species, the environment as can be seen from the accompanying photographs of the Solar One Photovoltaic Electric Producing Outdoor Factory in construction process. 

In addition, local organic farms would produce local income for local people to be spent in the local community unlike Renewable Energy Facilities that produce almost no income for local people. Consider for how long a period that is. Decades. 

It would provide also an opportunity for those people who want to sell their properties. Land values for farming have been on the rise in recent times. It seems a certain amount of our water use should be allocated for local farming for local use. It is foolish to eliminate all farms in the neighborhood. 

I came across this headline on the internet toward the end of November: U.N. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION WARNS 25 PERCENT OF LAND HIGHLY DEGRADED an article by Nicole Winfield. 

This report went on to talk about the conflicting problems of an ever expanding population with the need to produce ever more food while so much land has already been degraded with more land that is deteriorating due to current industrial farming practices causing ever diminishing production. At a time where demand is increasing, production is decreasing and the trend is likely to continue. 

We are already seeing the results worldwide of this scenario. 

Organic Farming as a solution for land use on the west side is a win all around. 

Check out my web site for seed and plant offerings. I will be selling tomato, pepper and a number of other plants including sweet potato. I will also have a listing for group fees for instruction and lists of hand-outs for sale.