I feel pretty good about eating a meat free diet. We belong to a CSA and freeze a lot of soup each season. We have an garden every year also. So, we're trying but I'd say we're still only about 60%. Packaged cereal, oils, and dairy free products are hard to come by locally. Paul's mom and his cousins grew up on the family farm. Two hundred acres of integrated production: cows, pigs, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, crops, and gardens. The farm was sold a few years ago. No one in the next generation was interested in making a go of it.
Thank you for sharing that! It makes me wistful that there’s not another generation to carry on the farm, but it’s also a lot of work for little reward. I wish our system didn’t favor the big companies over small producers.
So, that's what those underground waste bins were for in Boston! Here my partner and I throw our food scraps into the front and back gardens where they are either enjoyed by the abundant local wildlife or simply break down and become soil. Vermont technically banned food scraps from home trash pickup, although we have a commercial dumpster, as do many homes in Vermont. So technically we could still toss our food scraps in the trash. We just choose not to. Returning the scraps to the earth a little at a time like we do is just natural. But using food scraps as feed for local farm animals is so much better. I like that there are companies which appear to be using food waste productively but it's likely nowhere as good as they make it sound. Just as you suggested. Great article as always.
I feel pretty good about eating a meat free diet. We belong to a CSA and freeze a lot of soup each season. We have an garden every year also. So, we're trying but I'd say we're still only about 60%. Packaged cereal, oils, and dairy free products are hard to come by locally. Paul's mom and his cousins grew up on the family farm. Two hundred acres of integrated production: cows, pigs, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, crops, and gardens. The farm was sold a few years ago. No one in the next generation was interested in making a go of it.
Thank you for sharing that! It makes me wistful that there’s not another generation to carry on the farm, but it’s also a lot of work for little reward. I wish our system didn’t favor the big companies over small producers.
So, that's what those underground waste bins were for in Boston! Here my partner and I throw our food scraps into the front and back gardens where they are either enjoyed by the abundant local wildlife or simply break down and become soil. Vermont technically banned food scraps from home trash pickup, although we have a commercial dumpster, as do many homes in Vermont. So technically we could still toss our food scraps in the trash. We just choose not to. Returning the scraps to the earth a little at a time like we do is just natural. But using food scraps as feed for local farm animals is so much better. I like that there are companies which appear to be using food waste productively but it's likely nowhere as good as they make it sound. Just as you suggested. Great article as always.
Your food scraps are definitely being more productive being thrown into the garden than into the trash!