\npictured local food project<\/a>,\nBlazer Gardens,\nseems to have run into some sort of\npolitics; it’s no longer supposed to be referred to as Blazer Gardens at VSU,\nand it’s not clear whether it has access to those greenhouses, but that’s\nanother story.\n\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Walsh writes in Time that Foodies Can Eclipse (and Save) the Green Movement: Even as traditional environmentalism struggles, another movement is rising in its place, aligning consumers, producers, the media and even politicians. It’s the food movement, and if it continues to grow it may be able to create just the sort of political […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,42,43,12],"tags":[1026,1027,1025,2775,23,1028,1029,2766,1030,1032,1031],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-food-and-drink","category-gardening","category-politics","tag-blazer-gardens","tag-bobbi-anne-hancock","tag-environmentalism","tag-food","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-jim-parker-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-politics","tag-the-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-valdosta-state-university","tag-vsu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\nBryan Walsh writes in Time that\n<\/a>\nThere are now thousands of community-supported agriculture programs around\nthe country, up from just two in 1986. There are more than 6,000 farmers’\nmarkets, up 16% from just a year ago. Sales of organic food and beverages\nhit nearly $25 billion in 2009, up from $1 billion in 1990, and no less\na corporate behemoth than Walmart has muscled into the organic industry,\nseeking out sustainable suppliers. Green chefs like Alice Waters of Chez\nPanisse in Berkeley, Calif., have become national superstars, and local\nsourcing has become a must for hip restaurants in Brooklyn, Berkeley and\nin between. First Lady Michelle Obama \u2014 she of the organic White House\ngarden \u2014 has decided to make childhood obesity her signature issue,\nand she’s done so by pushing the food industry to provide healthier\nfruits and vegetables over cheap processed options. Even the Department\nof Agriculture \u2014 usually a staunch ally of mainstream farming and the\n\n
<\/a>\ndistributor each year of billions in often wasteful agricultural subsidies\n\u2014 has gotten into the sustainability game with its “Know Your Farmer,\nKnow Your Food” program, which connects consumers with local producers.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd another really simple point:\n
\nSimple: it’s about pleasure. Before the political games, before worries\nabout dead zones and manure lagoons, before concerns about obesity and\ntrans fat, the food movement arose around a simple principle: food should\ntaste better.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/a>\nBobbi Anne Hancock and Jim Parker discuss how\n\nit’s good for you and tastes good, too!<\/a>\n