Land wars
Locally farmed food is hard to produce cheaply
By Culinate staff
May 21, 2008
For all you city slickers who like buying local food at urban farmers’ markets, this Seattle P-I story about the rising cost of farmland is timely. The sum-up? Preserving farmland near cities that could be more profitably turned into, say, McMansion developments ain’t easy.
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1. by cafemama on May 21, 2008 at 1:25 PM PDT
that’s a really great article. I love the idea in there that the city should offer subsidies for farmland in surrounding areas -- it seems only the fed/state are interested in that, when it’s truly serving the city dwellers.
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