One customer was frustrated because the producer promised her last weekend that he would bring her a black-eyed Susan plant this week and he hadn't. When another customer asked about the purpling on the cauliflower he was told why in what I thought was a kind of an abrupt way and the producer moved on.
The only vendor who was friendly and interacted with his customers and took time to answer questions was the goat milk vendor who was handing out raw milk samples.
I overheard many customers asking about the tomatoes for sale and if they were safe to eat. The responses were that their tomatoes were grown in hothouses. How produce was displayed was also interesting.
Spinach was sold with their roots. Beets were sold in bundles rubberbanded together with the bulbs in water. Bakery items were in individual flat trays with covers and cut into slices. There were no descriptions on any of the flat trays to say what each tray held. There also were no ingredients lists on them either. There were samples galore to try.
But there were no sneeze guards, toothpicks or any other what we in MO would expect from the county health department. You just used your fingers to pick up crackers or chunks of bread from a bowl to dip whatever was being sampled.
And it was the same for meat lamb sausages , just use your fingers to pick up a piece from a plate. I was very surprised with what little regulations there must be for bakery items and for sampling.
Here are the prices I paid for what I purchased. None of the items were certified organic. I commented that it seemed awfully early for summer squash and he said no and moved on as if he didn't want to answer any other questions.
I didn't need any and was glad. The project team is betting that some perennial groundcovers will check those boxes and lead to much wider adoption of cover crops. Davis will lead the team to examine the environmental impacts of PGC implementation. A society has physical and material needs, however, one of the most basic needs of any society is a sense of social equity or justice. Any food and farming system that is not socially just does not meet this basic need, and thus, is not sustainable.
A sustainable economy must meet the material needs of people by means that are perceived to be equitable and just by the society that supports it. Human society is a subsystem of the larger natural ecosystem and the economy, in turn, is a subsystem of society. While some level of individual economic or material well-being is a prerequisite for a sustainable society, a society is more that a collection of individuals; it includes also the relationships among those individuals.
The sustainability of a society perhaps depends even more upon strong relationships among its members than upon strong individual members. However, distrust and dissention are inevitable consequences of substantial and persistent economic disparity among members within a society.
Economic disparity inevitably creates a sense of social injustice, and an unjust society is neither stable nor sustainable. Distrust and dissention ultimately lead to civil unrest, which disrupts the economy and ultimately leads to exploitation and destruction of the natural ecosystem. Eastern Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa provide two prime examples of the widespread ecological destruction that results from persistent social injustice.
That grass is going to have more nutrients in it and your cattle are going to do better, while allowing your cool-season grasses to recover.
Ryan hopes that by working with TNC his operation will be more profitable, and together, they will be able to show other producers the benefits of making similar changes to their farms. Kent Wamsley. For us, this is a win for nature and for sustainable grazing. Every spring, Dunn Ranch Prairie pops with colorful prairie flowers, buzzes with pollinators and is serenaded by a variety of birds.
This year, new guests were welcomed onto a portion of the prairie for a very specific purpose—to increase native habitat across the Grand River Grasslands. TNC has partnered with two local ranchers, whose cattle will graze on two specific pastures on the prairie for the next three years.
In return, those ranchers will select and implement sustainable grazing practices, such as removing fescue and planting native grasses on their own land. This grassbank gives ranchers the ability and time to adopt and establish sustainable practices on their land, keeping our grasslands ecologically intact and economically productive. Partnerships play a vital role in the success of our sustainable agriculture work at Little Creek Farm and Dunn Ranch Prairie.
The Field and Farm Tour video series brings together a collection of agencies and partners to discuss programs and cost-share opportunities for landowners interested in implementing conservation practices on their own land. Additional support for Little Creek Farm from the CIG includes the incorporation of exclusion fencing, alternate water sources, rotational grazing, and restoration of native warm-season grass and legume forages.
You can view the individual interviews below or skip to the playlist to watch all 8 videos.
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