A couple of months ago I wrote a post on the popularity of virtual agriculture pointing towards a yearning to get back to the land.
However, truth be told, there’s a lot of good things happening on farms in real life.
There’s Biodynamic farming, for example. What’s that you ask? Here’s one answer, given in a video created by Organic Nation TV.
Want to try biodynamic food for yourself? My local grocery store often carries biodynamic grapes, raisins and wine — look for the Demeter certification seal. Also check for local biodynamic farmers or CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture). If you can’t find any, you can purchase biodynamic products online at the Steiner Storehouse.
Maybe you yourself are a farmer, and not just on Facebook (but click here to fan biodynamic farming there), but in Truth. If so, you may be interested in Crop Mob, an organization which helps to bring regular folk and farmers together, to tend to the farm for the day. Or maybe you are not a farmer, but a farmer-at-heart, and hankering for some real roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-dirty type of work. Well Crop Mob can help you find a farm to work on some weekend soon (bring the kids).
And check out April Davila’s blog Without Monsanto. She is spending the month of March, well, without Monsanto — trying not to eat, drink, wear, or wash with anything that might be genetically modified. Turns out, not an easy task.