There are those of us who are lucky enough to be growing much of what we need. Lisa in NY, GLC in Ore. and me here in California.

I for one am getting bit fed up with the term "organic", "free range..." For my partner and me, we are looking at number of incidents of mass posioning, E.coli, salmonella, chegella(sp)... vegetable wax coating on food, to melamine contamination of food, BPA.

We do not buy from Mexico nor from China. The ONLY REASON, WE AVOID it is because we have very low trust in our food safety inspection.

We support family farms. We support sustainability. We support humane way of doing business and this also means to pay a living wage. Conservation is also very important to us.

Lastly, we prefer heirloom variety because we like the BETTER TASTE!

One thing that is perplexing to me is that there have been numerous study which points to properly grown food (traditional sustainable organic) to be nutritionally more dense than the GM food with accelerated growth. I do not care to eat Bt-corn.

I may sound mad here but I really am not. I consider it to be of personal safety issue for one. There are many other reason for doing this but I don't want to be preaching here. so we'll just let it go for now.

BTW, looks like we are going to be buying a shredder/chipper so we can recycle yard waste within my property. Other items on our shopping list, rain barrels, emergency generator cause we lose power often, PV electric system, solar water heater. All of this in my very urban neighborhood.

GLC,

we found a reasonable priced chipper on Amazon of all places.