Can We Please Have A Ride Home?
Ingredient-driven restaurants are hip! HOORAY! Finally we’re heading back home and just in time. America’s homogenized pallet is starting to wake up. Just as carpooling caught fire so has locavorism and we are beginning to learn as a country that organic is great, but knowing your farmer and knowing your food can’t be beat.
As organic farmers, we realize the impact that properly farmed land can have on the carbon sequestration that is so very necessary to combat global warming. It’s so important to us that to lose even one more family farm for us is intolerable.
Unlike what our parents told us all, as far as getting home, we are not picky about who we ride with. If people eat local and support local farming and organic and grass-fed because it’s hip, that’s great. If health is your vehicle to the farmer’s market, fantastic. Perhaps you’re a chef looking for the newest trend or you’re simply responding to customer demand, well, CHEF ON! I just want a ride home. Back to responsible farming, valuation of the food we eat and the farmers who grow it. I couldn’t care less how I get there.
