Call me naive, but for some reason I never expected to run into a farmer using chemical fertilizers on his produce right here in Dupont Circle, the premier farmers market in the nation’s capitol. But I couldn’t help wondering when I saw this vendor’s table groaning under the biggest, most gigantic broccoli I’d ever seen. […]
Once again my pollanista cohorts are in a twist over the ravings of James McWilliams, the writer who argues that there’s something sinister about the local food movement. In a three part series of posts at the New York Times, McWilliams lately has been ranting that farmers markets are not only “elitist,” but actually sow […]
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Did it ever strike you as strange how plastic bags proliferate at the farmers market where we go to shop for locally-grown, organic food? Somehow, it just doesn’t feel right putting food that’s supposed to be helping save the environment into a plastic bag that’s a prime source of everyday pollution. Some jurisdictions have had […]
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