- The sustainable farming movement, cradled in Northern California, has gone mainstream, challenging the industrial model that has ruled American farming for more than half a century.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Georgetown University last week packed a lecture hall usually reserved for presidential foreign policy addresses for a conference on food, keynoted by the world's most famous organic farmer, Prince Charles.
"Topsoil is the cornerstone of the prosperity of nations," the Prince of Wales told the crowd of more than 700, citing at times UC Berkeley professor Michael Pollan and first lady Michelle Obama, heralds of the new food movement. "Why is it that an industrialized system, deeply dependent on fossil fuels and chemical treatments, is promoted as viable, while a much less damaging one is rubbished and condemned as unfit?"
The sustainable farming movement, cradled in Northern California, has gone mainstream, challenging the industrial model that has ruled American farming for more than half a century.
For more, see: Sustainable farming takes root in agriculture
