Hat tip to Sherry… The easiest way to explain Gallup’s discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than they ate last year is to simply crack a snarky joke about Whole Foods really being “Whole Paycheck.” Rooted in the old limousine liberal iconography, the quip conjures the notion that only Birkenstock-wearing [...]

It’s been more than a year now since the theme of “green wizardry” became central to the posts here on The Archdruid Report, and I’ve pretty much covered the first two of the three themes I mean to discuss before it becomes time to shift the conversation elsewhere. We’ve discussed organic gardening and its associated [...]

The New York Times July 5, 2011 That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity By DWIGHT GARNER How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit By Barry Estabrook 220 pages. Andrews McMeel. $19.99. Jonathan Lethem has seen the future of agribusiness, and that future is strange. In his novel “Girl in Landscape” (1998), [...]