Ruminations

In America’s heartland, the New York Times reports on the return of a family’s farmland to raising heirloom crops and restoring local agriculture once again. The Travis family succeeded in buying back the land sold by his grandmother to developers. Now they grow unusual varieties of crops and very successfully sell them to restaurants. They are most pleased to bring back white Iroquois corn that was close to extinction and now is their most sought-after crop. An encouraging story to counter the factory farming throughout the U.S.

Read the full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30food-t-000.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

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