The Farmers Market Box

PERENNIAL WAVES OF GRAIN: Some serious sustainable food for thought… From Gourmet Magazine: By Barry Estabrook Wes Jackson’s now-grown children used to call him Dr. Doom. Kids will be kids, but that seems to be a particularly inappropriate moniker for a man with a keen mind and an impish sense of humor, who is putting …

You say To-May-To, I say To-Mah-To… Click on the link below for a preview movie of beautiful heirloom tomatoes in their early fruit stages… River Bottom Farms Heirloom Tomatoes MARKET REVIEW: Maybe I’m a softie this week, but for this week, I think it’s for the best… FOUR WORDS:  HEIRLOOM TOMATOES,  SUMMER SQUASH The time …

SUPPLY VS. DEMAND: Supply and demand is an economical model based on price, utility, and quantity (available) in the market.  In a competitive market, the model predicts that price equalizes demanded quantities and quantities supplied by producers, resulting in an economic equilibrium between price and quantity.  Clearly this is in a perfect world… In today’s …

REALITY CHECK: Today, more than 6 billion people rely on food grown on merely 11 percent of the global land surface.  Only a scant 3 percent of the earth’s surface is inherently fertile soil.  Soil degradation and erosion are transforming productive land into wasteland at tragic speeds.  “The history of every nation”  President Franklin Roosevelt …