Hard row to hoe: Can local food movement save farmers?
Forget Pop Tarts and Cocoa Krispies. These days, some children are more likely to beg for "Toaster Pastries" or "Koala Crisp," the organic versions of the popular Kellogg's treats. Locally grown food, too, has exploded out of its niche at the City Market and at stores like Rebecca's Natural Foods and is now popping up on shelves in places such as Reid's Super Save Market, where it once would have seemed as out of place as Donald Trump at a flea market.
The increase in supply and the ease with which shoppers can now fill their baskets with locally grown and raised veggies and meats is thanks to growing consumer awareness of the benefits such local food provides not only for health but also for the environment and for our now tanking economy.
4Better Or Worse
The Dish
Essays
Question of the Week
Real Estate
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Movie Reviews
On Architecture
The Brazen Careerist
Strange But True
Letters
Full Stories List for March 5th, 2009 issue #0809
4Better Or Worse
News
Cartoons
Cover Stories
Essays
Letters
Movie Reviews
On Architecture
Photophile
Question of the Week
Real Estate
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Strange But True
The Brazen Careerist
The Dish
