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Tales of sustainability
which you’ve already seen in the NYTimes:
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on the back porch when he leaves.
Call them the lazy locavores — city dwellers who insist on eating food grown close to home but have no inclination to get their hands dirty. Mr. Paque is typical of a new breed of business owner serving their needs.
Ah! the entrepreneurial spirit.
And then there are High Density Vertical Growth Systems, sort of like growing chickens in cages where they can’t stand up.
H/t Lambert and gizzardboy at Correntewire.
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6 Comments
1. Max replies at 23rd July 2008, 6:18 pm :
NOT OUT OF A CAN!
In this fast pace country we live in, most people get their food out of a can, or maybe TV supper tray (My dinner still comes at noon time). Now that we are able now to raise our own vegetables on our place that’s what we eat and we’re enjoying it greatly. (I do not care for green beans out of a can)
So I say, more power to those people who crave fresh vegetables. If you have the means, by all means do it. A good meal of fresh vegetables may be the most enjoyment for that persons day. Of course it may be ruined when the TV is turned on and we watch all the campaign updates!
2. mike lovell replies at 24th July 2008, 1:47 pm :
Personally I prefer my green beans from a can. The taste and texture of frozen or fresh green beans doesn’t suit me. Conversely, Peas, are better the opposite way. But overall, fresh produce is far better than processed.
3. Rebecca Clayton replies at 24th July 2008, 3:51 pm :
Ideally, green beans should come out of a Mason jar, canned by someone who knows what she’s doing. (I’m competent enough for tomatoes, jams and jellies, but my beans are nothing to brag on.) Oh, and they’re string beans in these parts (and in Iowa too).
4. sherry replies at 24th July 2008, 4:40 pm :
When I took high school home economics (instead of chemistry), they made me so afraid of home-canned green beans that I’ve never even tried to do it myself. (That was Mrs. England, Max.) I figured every can I turned out would be deadly. Like you, Rebecca, I stick to tomato juice, jams, & jellies.
I don’t like the frozen ones at all, Mike, but I like the fresh ones fine. I even sometimes cook ‘em with a little bacon grease, which may not be so awful now that lard is good for us again. (Hey! If it’s in the NYTimes it must be true.) If I have to have not-fresh, I’ll take the canned.
And really, Max, you have to admire that guy for finding a way to make a living while delivering the rich folk local produce. I like it. But I couldn’t do it. I didn’t get Marietta’s green thumb.
5. mike lovell replies at 24th July 2008, 5:43 pm :
Is currently sitting in the central metro (if you can really call this metropolitan) area of Iowa awaiting mass shipments of jams and jellies. My kids seem to like peanut butter by itself, or in the case of my 4 1/2 yr old he likes honey with it. My wife and I seem to be the people who appreciate a good homemade jam or jelly. So yes, if you’ll just send your jars to…LOL
As for the lard issue, one thing I’ll accept from the NYTimes as fact. Isn’t it amazing how “horrible” all the foods our ancestors ate are now getting a second look?
6. Jessie Carty replies at 25th July 2008, 1:51 pm :
This post is almost creepy! I was just daydreaming the other day of things I would do if I won the lottery or something (i love to daydream) and one of them was THIS IDEA!
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