Monthly Archives: January 2012

Innisfree Farm: People like us

Posted on January 10, 2012 by dlhitzeman

I’ve noticed a lot of these kinds of articles recently: articles about people giving up on what most people consider the modern way of life and the American dream to embrace or return to agriculture. Most of them head down the sustainable route, finding small farms where they can embrace the ideas of multiculture and [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Innisfree Farm: Feeding the world without reducing the problem to the absurd

Posted on January 7, 2012 by dlhitzeman

I’ve been following the growing absurdity of the media fueled meme about food production since the UN declared the world officially hit 7 billion people with a mixture of frustration and amusement. The center-points of this meme are that we will have to grow as much food over the next 100 years as humanity did [...] Continue reading → Continue reading →

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