by John Langlois | Mar 29, 2013 | Alabama Organic Farms, Food Ideas
Cheap Food Is Not Cheap When You Count the Medical Bills It Entails One of the paradigms of American farming is that the farmer has always been grossly underpaid. The people who buy the foods produced do so on a wholesale basis. They contrive artificial ways to...
by John Langlois | Mar 27, 2013 | Farming Facts
Some People Know the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing Farm Values I received a call once from a man who wanted to buy my hay to feed his horses. I had more than I could use and was willing to sell it for not much more than it costs me to make it. He choked...
by John Langlois | Mar 23, 2013 | Food Ideas
“Sustainable farms are to today’s headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.” Gene...
by John Langlois | Mar 23, 2013 | Alabama Organic Farms, Farming Facts, Food Ideas, Organic Farming
Local Food Growers in Alabama Revised for publication 03/23/2013 We have always thought that the watermelons, tomatoes and other foods from local food growers in Alabama tasted better. Perhaps it’s because our taste buds are seasoned that way. Recent studies...
